The International Legal Personality of the Individual

Astrid Kjeldgaard-Pedersen, Associate Professor of International Law, University of Copenhagen

Astrid Kjeldgaard-Pedersen is an Associate Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. She has previously worked as assistant attorney at one of Denmark's top law firms and as Head of Section in the Human Rights Office of the Danish Ministry of Justice. She holds a Master of Laws from the University of Copenhagen and obtained her PhD degree at Aarhus University in 2012. Her research interests cover a wide range of issues in the field of public international law. Her work is published in international and Danish law journals as well as edited books. She is the sole editor of Nordic Approaches to International Law (Brill, 2017), and in 2005 she published a monograph in Danish entitled The Immunity of State Representatives (Thomson).