Honorary Members
Association of Young International Criminal Lawyers
Honorary members
Honorary members are individuals who have made distinctive contributions in the field of International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, Public International Law or Criminal Law.
Prof. dr. Carsten Stahn LLM
Carsten Stahn is Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at the Leiden Law School and Professor of Public International Law and International Criminal Justice at Queen’s University Belfast School of Law. At Leiden, he has served as Programme Director of the LL.M. Advanced Programme and the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies since 2008. He has previously worked as Legal Officer in Chambers of the International Criminal Court (2003-2007) and as Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (2000-2003). He obtained his PhD degree (summa cum laude) from Humboldt University Berlin after completing his First and Second State Exam in Law in Germany. He holds LL.M. degrees from New York University and Cologne/Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). In 2020, he obtained his post-doctoral dissertation (Habilitation) at Humboldt University Berlin, with a venia legendi for German Constitutional Law, International Law and International Criminal Law.
He has published 3 monographs, 15 edited volumes and over 80 articles/essays in different fields of international law and international justice. His PhD on International Territorial Administration won the Ciardi Price of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War (2009). He has conducted two large NWO funded research projects on Jus Post Bellum and Post-Conflict Justice and Local Ownership. His most recent works in international criminal justice include Justice as message (OUP 2020) and A Critical Introduction to International Criminal Law (CUP 2019). He is Editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law and Correspondent of the Netherlands International Law Review.
Prof. Lori Damrosch
Lori Damrosch teaches and writes on public international law and the U.S. law of foreign relations. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Department of State Advisory Committee on International Law, and other international law and human rights organizations.
Damrosch has held numerous fellowships and lectures widely on issues in international law. Since 2009, she has been a member of the Institut de Droit International. She has been a resident fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. In 2015, Damrosch was presented with the Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award by the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. That same year, Damrosch won a grant from the Columbia University President’s Global Innovation Fund to convene the conference “International Legal Dialogue—Middle East North Africa” at the Columbia Global Center in Amman, Jordan.
She has held numerous leadership positions in the American Society of International Law (ASIL), where she served as president from 2014 to 2016 and is currently honorary vice president. She organized a U.S.-Soviet (later U.S.-Russian) research project on international law on behalf of ASIL. She has served on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law in various capacities since 1990, including as the journal’s co-editor in chief from 2003 to 2013 and as an honorary editor since 2019.
Damrosch is the co-editor of the casebook International Law: Cases and Materials (7th ed. 2019). She is the author of Enforcing International Law Through Non-Forcible Measures (1997), resulting from her lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law, and she will give the general course on public international law at the Hague Academy in 2021. She is the editor of Enforcing Restraint: Collective Intervention in Internal Conflicts (1993) and The International Court of Justice at a Crossroads (1987). She co-edited Beyond Confrontation: International Law for the Post–Cold War Era (1995) and Law and Force in the New International Order (1991).
Prof. Dr. Shashikala Gurpur
Dr. Shashikala Gurpur, Fulbright Scholar (US), AHRB Fellow (UK) is a distinguished academician and orator having presented more than 225 invited lectures, workshops and seminars in prestigious Universities across the globe. Dr.Gurpur completed her LLM from Mysore University with 2 gold medals, and further completed her PhD in International Law. She is a pioneer in EU Legal Studies in India.
She has more than 26 years of teaching experience in several notable universities, which include tenures in NLSIU, Bangalore, Manipal Institute of Communication, MAHE, Manipal and University College Cork, Ireland. Her teaching and research interests encompass Jurisprudence, Media Law, International Law, Human Rights, Research Methodology, Feminist Legal Studies, Biotechnology Law, Law, Social Transformation and Impacted Literature, Women’s right movement, Justice work for prisoners and disadvantaged legal, media, trinaryworking in Gender and Science Literacy. Dr. Gurpur has 72 articles/research papers, two co-authored books and twelve book chapters to her credit. She is the recipient of several distinct honours, awards and recognition for her contribution in legal education, gender sensitization and community outreach programmes.She has recently submitted the ‘Criminal Justice Reform proposal’ the Home Ministry, Government of India.
Dr. Gurpur has been a member of the Law Commission of India and is currently a member several remarkable institutions including the Indian Law Institute, Bar Council of India and MCCIA Corporate Legislation Committee among others. In recognition of her contributions to the Indian legal academia, she was listed in the book ‘100 Legal Luminaries of India’, by LexisNexis.
Steven Kay QC
Steven Kay QC is Head of Chambers at 9 Bedford Row. He is a leading international criminal lawyer with a global reputation having been in the landmark cases that have established modern international criminal law including: the first UN trial at the Yugoslavia Tribunal (Dusko Tadic); the first trial of a former Head of State (Slobodan Milosevic ex-President of Serbia); the first trial at the ICC of an incumbent Head of State (President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya). In the case of President Kenyatta at the ICC, he produced a result that changed the shape of African politics. His international fraud and corruption practice is multijurisdictional and his knowledge of criminal law is used to strengthen civil and commercial cases.
Steven is also engaged by governments and organisations to investigate matters of international concern such as the 30 years conflict in Sri Lanka between the Tamils and the State; Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood; Montenegro Corruption and Conflicts of Interest; Human rights abuse alert Algeria;the IBA report on Political Prisons in North Korea. His reports have been influential upon world affairs – and in the case of President Kenyatta at the ICC, he won the presidential election during his trial.
Wayne Jordash QC
Wayne Jordash QC is a world leading expert in international humanitarian law (‘IHL’) and international human rights law (‘IHRL’), with unparalleled experience across the globe, regularly advising governments, including the Ukrainian, Bangladeshi, Libyan, Serbian and Vietnamese governments, on their compliance with IHL and IHRL.
Wayne is recognised in the Legal 500 UK 2017 as a Leading silk in the category of international crime and extradition. He was recommended as ‘One of the world’s leading international criminal lawyers’. Wayne was also ranked in the Chambers and Partners (UK) Bar Guide 2017 in the category of Crime: International Criminal Law. In 2016, he was recognised in the Legal 500 as a Leading silk in the category of Crime. He was recommended as ‘an exceptional barrister with a wealth of experience in international criminal law.’
His career has spanned all of the international courts and tribunals, representing governments, non-governmental organisations, companies, groups and individuals on a variety of human rights, criminal law and transitional justice-related issues. Wayne has been engaged in a number of international criminal law cases, dealing with a variety of war crimes related issues.
As the Managing Partner of GRC, Wayne leads a group of lawyers working to provide advisory services to international organisations, government officials and business enterprises on international humanitarian, international criminal and international human rights law. Currently, Wayne leads GRC’s projects in Ukraine, providing advisory services to the Ukrainian Government, international organisations located in Ukraine, and civil society on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and other IHL and IHRL standards. Most recently, Wayne is leading a team of GRC lawyers working with the Crimea-focused NGOs and prosecutors and investigators of the Crimean Prosecutor’s Office to enhance their capacity to remedy human rights violations.
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