Notes on Contributors

Markus P. Beham

is Assistant Professor at the Chair of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Public International Law, European and International Economic Law of the University of Passau, Germany, and an adjunct lecturer in international law at the University of Vienna, Austria. He holds a joint doctoral degree from the Université Paris Nanterre and the University of Vienna and a doctoral degree in history from the latter as well as an ll.m. degree from Columbia Law School in New York. Prior to returning to academia, Markus was part of the International Arbitration Group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer llp, resident in the firm’s Vienna office. He continues to provide expert advice for private clients, law firms, ngos, international organisations, and states on matters of international law, EU law, and arbitral procedure. He has acted in cases before icsid, icc, dis, and ad hoc tribunals as well as before the Austrian Supreme Court.

Veronika Bílková

is Associate Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague and the head of the Centre for International Law at the Institute of International Relations in Prague. She is the Secretary-General of the European Society of International Law (esil) and member of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe and of the Managerial Board of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. Her fields of research include public international law, human rights, the use of force, international humanitarian law, and foreign policy issues. She has authored four books and dozens of articles in Czech, English, and French.

Michala Chadimová

is currently serving as a Legal Officer with the UN in Iraq. She holds an llm in International Public and European Law (University of Amsterdam) and Ph.D. in Public International Law (Palacký University Olomouc). Her research focuses on international criminal responsibility for special intent crimes. She participated in the prosecution of Bosco Ntaganda at the International Criminal Court and also served at the Office of the Co-Prosecutor in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.

Tamás Hoffmann

is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies (Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence) and Associate Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest. He obtained his law degree from the elte Budapest Faculty of Law (2002), an ll.m. in Public International Law from King’s College London (2003), a Diploma in International Humanitarian Law from the International Committee of the Red Cross (2005), and he received his PhD in Public International Law from the elte Budapest Faculty of Law (2011). He was an intern at the Appeal Section of the Office of Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in 2004 and has lectured in international law at various academic institutions, including the nato Defense College in Rome. He is the author of numerous publications, both in Hungarian and English, in various areas of public international law, in particular international humanitarian law and international criminal law.

Claus Kreß

is Professor of International Law and Criminal Law. He holds the Chair for German and International Criminal Law and he is the Director of the Institute of International Peace and Security Law at the University of Cologne. His prior practice was in the German Federal Ministry of Justice on matters of criminal law and international law. In addition to his scholarly work, comprising more than 150 publications on the law on the use of force, the law of armed conflicts and international criminal law, he has been a member of Germany’s delegations in the negotiations regarding the International Criminal Court since 1998. In 2019, he was appointed Judge ad hoc at the International Court of Justice in the Case of the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia v. Myanmar). Since 2021, he serves as the Special Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on the Crime of Aggression. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall College at the University of Cambridge, a Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Northrhine-Westfalia, and the recipient of the 2014 m.c. Bassiouni Justice Award. He holds honorary doctorates from the State University Tbilisi and the University of Huánuco. In 2018 he was the Francis Lieber Scholar at West Point. He was a Guest Professor at Columbia Law School, Kyoto University, Melbourne Law School, Paris 1 (Sorbonne), as well as a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Fiesole.

Nikola Kurková Klímová

is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Law, Charles University (Prague), junior researcher at the Peace Research Center Prague, and member of the Czech Centre for Human Rights and Democracy. She holds master’s degrees in International Relations (2016) and Law (2018) from Charles University and Public International Law (2019) from Cambridge University. In her research, she specialises in international criminal law, human rights protection, and international investment arbitration. In 2017, she interned at the Office of the International Co-Prosecutor at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.

Milan Lipovský

is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of International Law of the Faculty of Law, Charles University (Prague), Czech Republic, member of the European Society of International Law, Czech Society of International Law, and unce (Research Centre for Human Rights of the Charles University). He graduated from the Charles University in 2010 (Mgr.) and 2015 (Ph.D.). His focus is on international criminal law and human rights protection. In 2017 he published for example, a monograph (in Czech) on the crime of aggression in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court after the Kampala review conference.

Eliška Mocková

is a human rights and humanitarian law specialist. Currently, she works as a field officer for the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. Previously, she worked as a lawyer for the Czech National Monitoring Mechanism, which monitors compliance of the Czech Republic with the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities. She graduated from the Charles University in 2020 (Mgr.), Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in 2019 (ll.m.), Charles University in 2018 (Mgr.) and currently continues her study at the Charles University as an external Ph.D. candidate, focusing on international criminal investigation of war crimes. She holds a position of an active reservist – ihl lawyer – in the Czech Army.

Kristýna Pelikánová Urbanová

is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of International Law of the Faculty of Law, Charles University (Prague), Czech Republic and an advocate (member of the Czech Bar Association). She graduated from the Charles University in 2011 (Mgr.) and 2018 (Ph.D.) and from University of Cambridge (ll.m., 2016). Her focus is on international criminal law and international investment protection.

Harald Christian Scheu

is Professor at the Department of European Law, Faculty of Law, Charles University. He graduated at the University of Salzburg (Dr. iur., 1995, Mag. phil., 1996) and the Charles University (Ph.D., 1997, Doc., 2006). He has received numerous fellowships (Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht in Heidelberg, University of Bern, European University Institute in Florence, University of Zürich, University of Vienna). From 1997 until 2006 he lectured for the Department of International Law and since 2006 for the Department of European Law of the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague. He teaches and conducts research in the fields of International and European Law and International Human Rights Law. Since 2013, he has been a member of the Council of the Government of the Czech Republic for Human Rights, since 2014, a member of the Czech Government’s Legislative Council, from 2015 until 2020 a member of the Management Board of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, and since 2020, a member of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.

Katarína Šmigová

is the Dean of the Faculty of Law, Pan-European University (Bratislava). She graduated from the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, where she worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Law and European Studies. She is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of Pan-European University in Bratislava where she has also completed her doctoral studies in the field of international law. Her scientific research focuses on those areas of international law that analyse a position of an individual, i.e., international criminal law (ll.m. in International Criminal Law, Sussex), international human rights law (Diplôme of the International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg; lectures at the eiuc, Venice) and international humanitarian law (courses for university teachers, Geneva). She is a member of the American Society for International Law and the Slovak Society for International Law at the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

Pavel Šturma

is Professor and Head of the Department of International Law, Charles University (Prague), Faculty of Law, coordinator of the Research Centre for Human Rights (unce) at the same university, and Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Law, Czech Academy of Sciences. He was formerly a professor at the Pan European University, Faculty of Law (Bratislava, Slovakia). He is a member and former chairperson of the UN International Law Commission. He is president of the Czech Society of International Law and Editor-in-Chief of the Czech Yearbook of Public & Private International Law. He was from 2010 until 2015 a member of the Management Board of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. He has authored or co-authored 19 books and more than 200 articles and studies in International Law in Czech, English, and French. The main topics of his research include human rights, the codification of international law, international responsibility, and international investment law.

Ondřej Svaček

is Associate Professor at the Department of International and European Law, Faculty of Law, Palacký University in Olomouc and the Department of International and European Law, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University in Brno. He specializes in international criminal law, international human rights law, and general issues of public international law (e.g., law of state responsibility, jurisdictional immunities, creation of states). In 2017, he published a monograph concerning the law and practice of the International Criminal Court (Mezinárodní trestní soud (2005–2017). c. h. Beck: Praha, 295 p.).

Kateřina Uhlířová

is a Senior Lecturer in Public International Law at Masaryk University (mu) Faculty of Law. She received her law degrees magna cum laude from mu and University of Wales Aberystwyth. She is a recipient of the Arthur C. Helton Fellowship awarded by the American Society of International Law (asil). Her research is mainly in the areas of international criminal law, human rights, and diplomatic law. She was a visiting lecturer at the Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco (2010–2013). She interned as law clerk at the Office of the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague (2008) and at the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo (2007). She has published (in English) a monograph on Head of State immunity in international law, numerous articles (including in the asil Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, International Journal of Refugee Law or Australian Law Journal) and contributed to several books (most recently with oup, Brill, and Éditions Bruylant).