Jeff Handmaker is a senior lecturer at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, which forms part of Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. In 2017, he was a visiting research fellow in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University, New Jersey. He is also a senior research fellow of the Faculty of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal on Human Rights. He formerly worked as a practitioner in over fifteen countries, particularly in Southern Africa, Europe and the Middle East as well as with the United Nations and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. As a socio-legal scholar, his research on legal mobilization explores the social and political dimensions of instrumentalising international law in relation to a variety of contexts and themes