Lianne Boer is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at VU Amsterdam, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Politics of Transnational Law. Her research deals with the (socio)linguistics of knowledge construction in international legal scholarship. She was previously visiting PhD scholar at the University of Cambridge, and Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at Melbourne Law School. Her recent publications include an edited volume with Sofia Stolk, called Backstage Practices of Transnational Law (Routledge).