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

Somalia, explosion of a bomb in the Mogadishu's market place. Short Course

The Classification of Armed Conflicts

This online short course provides an in-depth study of 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

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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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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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