Henry G. Schermers, Ph.D. (1957) Leiden University, has been Professor of the Law of International Organizations at the Universities of Amsterdam and Leiden. He published the first edition of International Institutional Law in 1972. Henry Schermers passed away in 2006. Nids M. Blokker, Ph.D. (1989) Leiden University, is Professor of International Institutional Law at Leiden University and was previously Deputy Legal Adviser at the Foreign Ministry of The Netherlands.
He is co-founder and co-editor in chief of International Organizations Law Review (published by Martinus Nijhoff/Brill Publishers).