Jérôme de Hemptinne

Jérôme de Hemptinne

Assistant Professor at Utrecht University

Areas of expertise

International Humanitarian Law  /  Qualification of Armed Conflict  /  International Criminal Court  /  International Criminal Law  /  International Crimes  /  Modes of International Responsibility  /  International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia  /  Special Tribunal for Lebanon

Jérôme de Hemptinne is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University and teaches, at the Geneva Academy, a course on international criminal law in the LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and a course on the typology of armed conflicts in the Executive Master in International Law in Armed Conflict.

He previously worked for more than a decade at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, at the Office of the United Nations Legal Counsel in New York, and at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. He is co-editor of Modes of Liability in International Criminal Law (CUP, 2019) and of Animals in the International Law of Armed Conflict (CUP, 2022; ESIL Collective Book Prize, 2023). He is the author of Les conflits armés en mutation (Pedone, 2019; Walther Hug Prize, 2020).

Taught Courses

October 2016, Hearing on reparations in Lubanga case LLM - Course

International Criminal Law

This course aims to give students an in-depth knowledge of the most crucial issues of international criminal law. After dealing briefly with the birth and evolution of international criminal law as a branch of public international law with regard to the so-called core crimes, the course focuses on the legal ingredients of each core crime (war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide).

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Syria, Old city of Aleppo. Destructed houses situated next to the frontline stand side by side alongside intact houses full of occupants just a few meters away from the frontline Executive Master - Course

The Classification of Armed Conflicts

This course examines an emblematic example of the complexity of international humanitarian law and the challenges it raises: the classification of armed conflicts.

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Past projects

RESEARCH

Modes of Liability for International Crimes

Completed in 2019

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Publications

Cover page of the book

Modes of Liability in International Criminal Law

July 2019

Jérôme de Hemptinne, Robert Roth, Elies van Sliedregt

Cambridge University Press

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Cover of Panorama des régimes d’internement et d’emprisonnement dans les conflits armés internationaux

Panorama des régimes d’internement et d’emprisonnement dans les conflits armés internationaux

October 2015

Jérôme de Hemptinne

Proceedings of the 15th Bruges Colloquium, Collegium No. 45, Autumn 2015

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Cover of The 1949 Geneva Conventions: A Commentary

The prohibition of Reprisals

October 2015

Jérôme de Hemptinne

Andrew Clapham, Paola Gaeta, and Marco Sassòli, The 1949 Geneva Conventions: A Commentary

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Cover of Droit international humanitaire, Thèmes choisis

Droit international humanitaire, Thèmes choisis

October 2012

Jérôme de Hemptinne, Jean D'Aspremont

Pedone

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