Biography

Miha Marčenko is an international law scholar who holds a PhD in Public International Law from the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). His dissertation, 'The Role of the City as a Discursive Practice in International Law and Governance', explores the rise of the city as a discursive frame for (counter)hegemonic struggles in global law-and-policy-making. The thesis focuses specifically on the use of the city as a discursive frame in the field of international housing governance. During his PhD, Miha was a member of the Asser Institute for International and European law in The Hague, Netherlands. In addition to academic work, he also worked with international law as a researcher at a legal NGO called Syrian Legal Development Programme, and as an intern at the UN Codification Division and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

As a Max Weber Fellow, Miha will build on his previous research and examine how 'the local' is constructed in international law and governance. He is interested in the legal and the broader discursive effects of the narratives of localisation and local representation emphasised in the United Nations sustainable development agenda and international human rights law. In other words, he is interested in the legal and political effects of the emphasis on localisation in international law-and-policy-making.