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International Human Rights Law / International Courts and Tribunals / International Criminal Court / Death Penalty / Transitional Justice / Genocide / International Criminal Justice / Crimes against Humanity
William A. Schabas is a Professor of International Law at Middlesex University, London. He is also a Professor Emeritus at Leiden University and the University of Galway, and an invited visiting scholar at the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po.
Recognized as a leading expert on international human rights law, international criminal law, genocide and capital punishment, he is the author of more than 20 books and 400 journal articles on these issues. He is also Editor Emeritus of Criminal Law Forum, the quarterly journal of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law.
Professor Schabas was a member of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He also worked as a consultant on capital punishment for the UN Office of Drugs and Crime and drafted the 2010, 2015 and 202 reports of the UN Secretary-General on the status of the death penalty.
He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and he has been awarded the Vespasian V. Pella Medal for International Criminal Justice by the Association Internationale de Droit Pénal.
Professor Schabas holds BA and MA degrees in history from the University of Toronto, and LLB, LLM and LLD degrees from the Université de Montréal, as well as honorary doctorates in Law from several universities.
ICC - CPI
Master in transitional justice - CourseThis course addresses the aims and functioning of criminal justice, with a special focus on actors and institutions at the international level.
ICC / CPI
Executive Master - CourseThis course reviews the origins of international criminal law, its relationship with the international legal order including the UN Security Council and its coexistence with national justice institutions. The scope of international crimes – genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression – is considered alongside initiatives to expand or add to these categories.
ICC-CPI
Short CourseThis online short course reviews the origins of international criminal law, its relationship with the international legal order including the UN Security Council and its coexistence with national justice institutions. The scope of international crimes – genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression – is considered alongside initiatives to expand or add to these categories.
ICC-CPI
Short CourseThis online short course reviews the origins of international criminal law, its relationship with the international legal order including the UN Security Council and its coexistence with national justice institutions. The scope of international crimes – genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression – is considered alongside initiatives to expand or add to these categories.
William A. Schabas
Cambridge University Press
William A. Schabas
Oxford University Press
William A. Schabas
Oxford University Press
