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Teaching EU Law using workbooks (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this presentation we explain how the experience of teaching EU Law using workbooks during COVID could be useful for Ukrainian universities that are mostly delivering courses remotely.

Economic crime in war (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation focuses on a largely unexplored area – economic crime in war. By highlighting key examples of how economic crime links to war, we aim to open the discussion on how to disrupt economic crime in war effectively. We invite scholars wit... Read More about Economic crime in war.

Using fraternity and human dignity to counter the criminalization of solidarity in the European Union (2024)
Journal Article

Over the past decades, a logic of border control and securitization, a combination of legal, political and social elements and factors, has developed in European States. The 2015 migration crisis has only exacerbated this negative approach towards mi... Read More about Using fraternity and human dignity to counter the criminalization of solidarity in the European Union.

Unlawful transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This guest lecture starts by exploring the various violations committed against children by the parties to the conflict in Ukraine. It then moves on to focus on the removal of Ukrainian children from Ukraine to occupied territories and Russia. Using... Read More about Unlawful transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children.

Criminalisation of solidarity towards migrants in the European Union - Issues, challenges and solutions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The talk has two objectives. It first explains the process of criminalization of solidarity in the European Union and especially how the law is used as an instrument of securitization and sanction against solidaristic acts. It also provides examples... Read More about Criminalisation of solidarity towards migrants in the European Union - Issues, challenges and solutions.

Economic crimes and war crimes (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This keynote speech starts by providing a definition of war crimes under the Statute of the International Criminal Court and then focuses on war crimes that can be deemed to be of an economic nature. The speech then moves on to examine the definition... Read More about Economic crimes and war crimes.

International humanitarian law and healthcare (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

After a brief overview of the key principles of international humanitarian law (IHL), this presentation focuses on the protection offered by IHL to medical personnel and medical units. The concepts of 'medical personnel' and 'medical units' are defin... Read More about International humanitarian law and healthcare.

R2P - Whose responsibility - Whose protection? A gender perspective (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The keynote speech starts by questioning who is protected by humanitarian interventions. It argues that there is a disparity between the rhetoric of protecting vulnerable groups (especially women), the law that is contained in UN reports and UN Secur... Read More about R2P - Whose responsibility - Whose protection? A gender perspective.

Territorial conflicts on the territory of the former Soviet Union - Stabilised de facto regimes between territorial integrity, the right of self-determination, and the interests of third parties (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the criteria of statehood according to the Montevideo Convention and applies them to four entities (Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh) that were part of the Soviet Union with a view to evaluating their sta... Read More about Territorial conflicts on the territory of the former Soviet Union - Stabilised de facto regimes between territorial integrity, the right of self-determination, and the interests of third parties.

Violations of international humanitarian law in Ukraine and forums for redress and prosecution (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This is a lecture given to students attending the Ukraine Practicum module at Chapman University (USA). The lecture focuses on violations of international humanitarian law and the ways IHL can be implemented and enforced in the context of the armed c... Read More about Violations of international humanitarian law in Ukraine and forums for redress and prosecution.

The criminalization of solidarity in today’s European Union - Reflections and solutions (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Of all the concepts that are often evoked to tackle issues of political inclusion and exclusion, solidarity is perhaps the most frequently discussed. Although there is no unanimous agreement on a definition of this concept, which is variously referre... Read More about The criminalization of solidarity in today’s European Union - Reflections and solutions.

Child Soldiers (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter provides a description of the law that relates to child soldiers. It starts by explaining the various legal regimes that govern the situation of child soldiers, then moves on to providing a definition of a child soldier. It then discusse... Read More about Child Soldiers.

Fertile or futile grounds for excluding criminal responsibility? A critical analysis of the Ongwen judgment in relation to the claim of coercive environment (2023)
Journal Article

Dominic Ongwen was convicted and sentenced for numerous atrocities by the International Criminal Court (icc) in 2021. The Defence focused on the coercive environment that Ongwen was subjected to from his abduction as a boy until his surrender as an a... Read More about Fertile or futile grounds for excluding criminal responsibility? A critical analysis of the Ongwen judgment in relation to the claim of coercive environment.

European Solidarity - Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2023)
Book

What is solidarity and what makes us think it is something important? Is it just an abstract idea or something more like a prosocial practice that can grow to inform legal regulations and political decisions? How is it that solidarity is so widesprea... Read More about European Solidarity - Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

The criminalization of solidarity in today's European Union (2023)
Book Chapter

European solidarity is a contested concept. Social groups and political parties with different ideological orientations across the European Union often try to impose their own conception of solidarity to the detriment of alternative interpretations.... Read More about The criminalization of solidarity in today's European Union.

Fundamental principles of international humanitarian law (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This guest lecture introduces LLM students to the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law, using concrete examples of their application.

Understanding the link between contested territories, war crimes and economic crimes - prosecution and prevention (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

After presenting the concept of war crimes, this presentation explores whether economic crimes (in a wide understanding of the concept) committed in the occupied territories of Ukraine can be prosecuted as war crimes. The second part of the presentat... Read More about Understanding the link between contested territories, war crimes and economic crimes - prosecution and prevention.

Violations of international humanitarian law and human rights in Ukraine: The damning reports of the UN and the OSCE (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The paper presents the findings of the OSCE and UN reports on the conflict in Ukraine. It focuses on two issues: the treatment of prisoners of war and the protection of children (notably against forcible transfer).

Imagine you were a judge of the Nuremberg trials and you were sent to the ICC in 2020 (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The premise of my presentation today is that the definition of war crimes in the Nuremberg Principles is a ‘mother’ definition, one that can lead to the criminalisation of further violations of international humanitarian law. After all, Principle VI(... Read More about Imagine you were a judge of the Nuremberg trials and you were sent to the ICC in 2020.

Casting the net wider: A critical analysis of the sentencing criteria in the Ongwen case at the international criminal court (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Throughout history, children have been involved in armed conflict both as victims and perpetrators. The international community, at the end of the last century, finally signalled its intention to hold to account those responsible for conscripting and... Read More about Casting the net wider: A critical analysis of the sentencing criteria in the Ongwen case at the international criminal court.