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'How International Tribunals have contributed to advancing IHL'  

with  

PROFESSOR GUÉNAËL METTRAUX 

Judge of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, Professor of Law at Dickinson Law School and NUI Galway Adjunct Professor   

Time: 01:30 – 2:30 PM (Irish Standard Time) 

Date: 4^th March 2021  

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Speaker Biography 

Prof. Dr. Guénaël Mettraux is a Judge of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers. He is Presiding member of the European Union's Human Rights Review Panel. He appears as Defense counsel before international criminal jurisdictions. Over the past decade, he has represented several high-ranking military and civilian leaders accused of international crimes, including General Sefer Halilović (former Commander of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina), Ljube Boškoski (former Minister of Interior of the Republic of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), General Ante Gotovina (General in the Croatian Army) and Assad Hassan Sabra (Special Tribunal for Lebanon – Rafik Hariri assassination). Dr Mettraux is also a Professor of Law at Dickinson Law School, PennState, a guest lecturer at SciencePo, Paris, and a guest lecturer at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). In June 2020, he was also appointed as an adjunct Professor of International Criminal Justice and International Criminal Law. He has published extensively in the field of international criminal law. His scholarly works include three books: "International Crimes and the ad hoc Tribunals (OUP, 2005), "Perspectives on the Nuremberg Trial" (OUP, 2008) and "The Law of Command Responsibility" (OUP, 2009), which was awarded the Lieber Prize from the American Society of International Law. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of International Criminal Justice and the Board of Editors of the International Criminal Law Review.

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