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Dr. A. (Andrea) Leiter PhD

Assistant Professor
Faculty of Law
Public International Law

Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
  • Room number: 10.03
Postal address
  • Postbus 15859
    1001 NJ Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Profile

    Andrea Leiter is the Acting Director of Research at the Amsterdam Center for International Law. Her research focuses on technology enabled governance and is embedded in the Sustainable Global Economic Law (SGEL) project. She researches on global inequality and transnational law making through private actors with a focus on the digital economy and blockchain technology. Supported by a VENI grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) she conducts her research project on '(Re)coding Value(s) in the Digital Economy' (2024-2027).

    Andrea obtained her PhD in a jointly-awarded degree program between the University of Melbourne and the University of Vienna where she was funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her resulting manuscript titled ‘Making the World Safe for Investment: The Protection of Foreign Property 1922-1959’ was published with Cambridge University Press. She is a junior faculty member at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School.

    She is the co-founder of the Sovereign Nature Initiative working at the intersection of ecology, economy and technology.

  • Service & Editorial Positions

    Editor, Crypto Law Review 

    Managing Editor, Glossary of Distributed Technologies, Internet Policy Review

    Program Committee, Cryptoeconomic Systems MIT Press   

    Review Editor, Technology and Law, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence            

  • Consulting

    Member, COALA Working Group – DAO Model Law

    Legal expert, Odyssey Hackathon – for the challenge ‘Sovereign Nature’ developing technologically enabled solutions towards ‘Protecting Marine Biodiversity in International Waters’ in collaboration with IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) and ICEL (International Council for Environmental Law)       

    Advisor, start-up Lexon Foundation – developing human readable programming language 

    Advisor, German Development Agency GIZ Blockchain Lab – Report ‘International Water Governance and Smart Contracts’  

  • Director of Research - Sovereign Nature Initiative
  • Publications

    2024

    • Leiter, A., & Dogot, D. (in press). Augmented Law: Formalism in Blockchain. Journal of Cross-disciplinary Research in Computational Law (CRCL) .

    2023

    • Ferrari, V., Leiter, A., Idelberger, F., Mannan, M., María-Cruz, V., & Bodó, B. (Eds.) (2023). Log Out. A Glossary of Technological Resistance and Decentralization. Institute of Network Cultures.
    • Leiter, A. (2023). Making the world safe for investment: the protection of foreign property 1922-1959. (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law; Vol. 178). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009330428 [details]
    • Leiter, A. (2023). Perimeters of possibility: legal imagination and structural indeterminacy in international legal thought. Transnational Legal Theory, 14(1), 100-112. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/20414005.2023.2203540 [details]

    2022

    2021

    2018

    2017

    2024

    2021

    2020

    2023

    2022

    Prize / grant

    • Leiter, A. (2023). VENI: (Re)coding Value(s) in the Digital Economy.

    Journal editor

    Talk / presentation

    • Leiter, A. (speaker) (9-4-2022). Law, Technology and the Human conference - April 2022.
    • Leiter, A. (speaker) & Dogot, D. (speaker) (11-11-2021). Augmented Order - the Hyper-formalism of Blockchain or Blockchain as Trans-legalism, COHUBICOL -Counting as a Human Being in the Era of Computational Law.
    • Leiter, A. (speaker) (11-9-2021). ESIL Closing Panel - Global Law as the End of International Law?, European Society of International Law (ESIL) Annual Conference 2021, Stockholm.
    • Leiter, A. (speaker) (1-9-2021). Technology driven agency of 'nature', Normandy Chair for Peace.
    • Leiter, A. (speaker) (31-8-2021). Blockchain as a Matter of Jurisdiction - Or where does Consent Live?, Arbeitskreis junger Völkerrechtswissenschafter_innen.
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  • Ancillary activities
    • Stichting Sovereign Nature Initiative
      Director of Research