CURRICULUM VITAE Prof. Dr. Carsten Stahn, LL.M.

CURRICULUM VITAE
Prof. Dr. Carsten Stahn, LL.M. (NYU), LL.M. (KÖLN-PARIS)
Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies
Leiden University, Campus The Hague & Faculty of Law
Kantoren Stichthage
Office: Koningin Julianaplein 10
2595 AA Den Haag
Mail: Postbus 13228
2501 EE Den Haag
Tel: + 31 646755775 Fax : + 31 71 5278223
E-Mail: c.stahn@cdh.leidenuniv.nl
www.grotiuscentre.org
I. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
09/2010 - Chair of International Criminal Law and Global Justice (tenured)
Leiden University, Campus The Hague & Faculty of Law
- Programme Director, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (since 9/2008)
- Programme Director, Adv. LL.M. Public International Law (since 9/2008)
09/2008 – 08/2010 Associate Professor of International Criminal Law, Leiden University
09/2007 – 9/2008 Reader in Public International Law and International Criminal Justice
Swansea University, UK
11/2003 – 08/2007 International Criminal Court
Legal Officer, Chambers/Pre-Trial Division
06/2000 – 08/2003 Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Research Fellow at the Institute, Heidelberg Germany
11/2000 – 11/2002 German Judiciary
Law Clerk Grand Criminal Chamber, Civil Law Chamber (District Court Frankenthal,
Pfalz), Administrative Court (Neustadt an der Weinstrasse)
09/1997 – 11/1999 Humboldt University Berlin
Research Assistant at the Institute of European Law and Public International Law
II. EDUCATION
04/2006 PhD Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Doctoral thesis (Prof. Dr. C. Tomuschat),
(summa cum laude)
07/2002 – 06/2003 LL.M., New York University (School of Law) New York, USA
LL.M. International Legal Studies (May 2003)
11/2002 2 nd State Examination in Law Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Completion of Second State Examination in November 2002;
Allowed to practice law in Germany. Best 30 %
03/2000 1 st State Examination in Law Berlin, Germany
Completion of First State Examination in March 2000,
Humboldt University Berlin. Best 6 %
09/1994 – 09/1996 Maîtrise en Droit, Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) Paris, France
Maîtrise en droits français et allemand
09/1992 – 09/1996 LL.M., University of Cologne (School of Law) Cologne, Germany
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III. RESEARCH GRANTS AND FUNDS
- Project leader: 5-year Research project, From Conflict Termination to Peacemaking: Role and contours of a
contemporary Jus Post Bellum, VIDI grant, Innovational Innovational Research Incentives Scheme (top 10 %),
granted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) in October 2010 (€ 800.000)
- Project leader: 4-year Research Grant: Post-Conflict Justice and Local Ownership, granted by NWO in June
2009 (€ 480.000)
- NWO Workshop Grant: Post-Conflict-Justice and Local Ownership, January 2009
- Leiden University Fund (LUF): Strategic Plan Grotius Centre (2009 – 2012), September 2009
IV. HONOURS AND PRIZES
- Recipient of the Ciardi Prize 2009 (Ciardi Prize Foundation/International Society for Military Law and the
Law of War) for The Law and Practice of International Territorial Administrations (CUP, 2008)
- Research Fellow, Leiden Law School in the Research Programmes: “Securing the Rule of Law in a World of
Multilevel Jurisdiction and “Criminal Justice: Legitimacy, Accountability and Effectivity” (2010 – 2012)
- LUC Senior Fellow (Global Justice), Leiden University College The Hague (2010 - )
- PhD Humboldt University (summa cum laude)
- Fellow of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (2002 – 2003)
- Scholar of the Collège franco-allemand (1994 – 1995)
V. EDITORIAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Executive Editor, Criminal Law Forum (CLF)
- Senior ICC Editor, Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL)
- Correspondent, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR)
- Editorial Board Member, Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law (FICHL), Peace Research
Institute, Oslo
Reviewer for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Hart Publishing, United Nations University
Press and T.M.C. Asser Press
VI. PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
- The Law and Practice of International Territorial Administration: Versailles to Iraq and Beyond, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Hardback 2008, Paperback 2010,
760 pp., Winner of the 2009 Ciardi Prize
Reviewed in: European Journal of International Law, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, Leiden
Journal of International Law, Journal of International Peacekeeping, Law Quarterly Review, Military Law and
the Law of War Review, cited in ICJ, Advisory Opinion, Accordance with international law of the unilateral
declaration of independence in respect of Kosovo, Separate Opinion of Judge Concado Trindade, 22 July 2010)
Jus Post Bellum: Towards a law of transition from conflict to peace, T.M.C. Asser Press/Cambridge University
Press, 2008 (ed., with J. K. Kleffner), 280 pp.; reviewed in: Human Rights Review
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- The Emerging Practice of the International Criminal Court, Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, The Hague, 2009 (ed., with
G. Sluiter), 770 pp.; reviewed in: Criminal Law Forum
- Future Perspectives on International Criminal Justice, TMC Asser Press/Cambridge University Press, 2010
(ed., with L. van den Herik), 693 pp.
- The International Criminal Court and Complementarity: From Theory to Practice, Cambridge University Press
(forthcoming, 2011) (ed., with M. El Zeidy)
- Diversification and Fragmentation of International Criminal Law (forthcoming 2011) (ed., with L. van den
Herik)
EDITED JOURNAL SYMPOSIA
- The Kampala Compromise on the Crime of Aggression. Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 23 (4)
(2010), 875
- Complementarity on Trial: Perspectives on Katanga, Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 23 (2) (2010),
311
- Legal aspects of the Lubanga Case, Criminal Law Forum, Vol. 19/3-4 (2008), 431-434 (with W. Schabas)
- The International Criminal Court and Cooperation, Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 21 (2008), 429 -
430 (with V. Nerlich)
- The International Criminal Court and Complementarity: Five Years on, Criminal Law Forum, Vol. 19 (2008),
1 - 3 (with W. Schabas and M. El Zeidy)
- The International Criminal Court and the Shortcomings of Domestic Legislation, Leiden Journal of
International Law, Vol. 20 (2007), 165
ARTICLES
English
- How is the water? Light and shadow in the first years of the ICC, Criminal Law Forum, Vol. 22, No. 1 (2011)
- The ‘End’, the ‘Beginning of the End’ or the ‘End of the Beginning’? Introducing Debates and Voices on the
Crime of ‘Aggression’, Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 23 (2010), 875-882
- The Future of International Criminal Justice, Hague Justice Journal (2009), Vol. 4 (2009), 259 -268; in French:
Le future de la justice pénale international.
- Perspectives on Katanga: An Introduction, Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 23 (2) (2010), 311 - 318
- Arrest and Surrender to the ICC: A Contextual Reading, in M. Bergsmo & P. Kalmanovitz, Law in Peace
Negotiations (2009), PRIO, FICHL Publication Series, 191 – 217
- Judicial Review of Prosecutorial Discretion: 5 Years on, in C. Stahn & G. Sluiter, The Emerging Practice of
the International Criminal Court, Martinus Nijhoff (2009), 247-279 (cited in ICC, PTC II, Decision Pursuant to
Article 15 of the Rome Statute on the Authorization of an Investigation into the Situation in the Republic of
Kenya, 31 March 2010)
- Judicial Review of Prosecutorial Discretion: On experiments and imperfections, in G. Sluiter (ed.),
International Criminal Procedure: Towards a Coherent Body of Law, Cameron (2009), 235-266
- Jus Post Bellum: Mapping the Disciplin(s), American University International Law Review, Vol. 23 (2008),
311-347
- Complementarity: A Tale of Two Notions, Criminal Law Forum, Vol. 19 (2008), 87-113
- Responsibility to Protect: Political Rhetoric or Emerging Legal Norm, American Journal of International Law,
Vol. 101 (2007), 99-120
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- Participation of Victims in Pre-Trial Proceedings of the ICC, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 4
(2006), No. 2, 219-238, (with H. Olasolo & K. Gibson)
- “Jus in bello, Jus ad bellum – Jus post Bellum”?: Rethinking the conception of the law of armed force,
European Journal of International Law, Vol. 17, No. 5 (2006), 921-946, reprinted in C. Ku & P. Diehl,
International Law: Classic and Contemporary Readings, 3rd ed. (2009)
- Why some doors may be closed already: Second thoughts on a “case-by-case” treatment of article 12 (3)
declarations, Nordic Journal of International Law, Vol. 75 (2006), 243-248
- Lawmaking by Transitional Administrations, International Peacekeeping: The Yearbook of Peace Operations,
Vol. 11 (2006), 81-109
- The International Criminal Court’s Ad Hoc Jurisdiction Revisited, American Journal of International Law, Vol.
99 (2005), 421-431 (with M. El Zeidy & H. Olasolo)
- Complementarity, amnesties and alternative forms of justice – Some interpretative guidelines for the ICC,
Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 3 (2005), 695-720
- The geometry of transitional justice: Choices of institutional design, Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol.
18 (2005), 425-466.
- Legal characterization of facts in the ICC system: A portrayal of Regulation 55, Criminal Law Forum, Vol. 16
(2005), 1-31 (cited in ICC, Appeals Chamber, Judgment on the appeals of Mr Lubanga Dyilo and the Prosecutor
against the Decision of Trial Chamber I of 14 July 2009 entitled "Decision giving notice to the parties and
participants that the legal characterisation of the facts may be subject to change in accordance with Regulation
55(2) of the Regulations of the Court“, 8 December 2009)
- Institutionalizing Brahimi’s “Light Footprint”: A Comment on the Role and Mandate of the Peacebuilding
Commission, International Organizations Law Review, Vol. 2 (2005), 403-415
- Governance beyond the State: Issues of Legitimacy in International Territorial Administration, International
Organizations Law Review, Vol. 1, Issue 2 (2005), 9-56
- Justice under transitional administration: Contours and critique of a paradigm, Houston Journal of
International Law, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2005), 311-342
- Nicaragua is dead, long live Nicaragua, in C. Walter, S. Vöneky, V. Röben, F. Schorkopf (eds.), Terrorism as
a Challenge for National and International Law: Security versus Liberty (2004), 827-877
- Enforcement of the Collective Will after Iraq, American Journal of International Law, Vol. 97 (2003), 804-823
- Terrorist Acts as “Armed Attack“ - the Right to Self-Defense, Art. 51(½) of the UN Charter and International
Terrorism, Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 27 (2003), 35-54
- The ambiguities of Security Council Resolution 1422 (2002), European Journal of International Law, Vol. 14
(2003), 85-104
- International Law at a Crossroads: The impact of September 11, Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches
Recht und Völkerrecht, Vol. 62 (2002), 183-256
- The Agreement on Succession Issues of the former SFRY of 29 June 2001, American Journal of International
Law 96 (2002), 379-401
- Accommodating Individual Criminal Responsibility and National Reconciliation: The UN Truth Commission
for East Timor, American Journal of International Law 95 (2001), 952-966
- Collective Security and Self-Defense after the September 11 attacks, Tilburg Foreign Law Review, Vol. 10
(2002), 10-42
- The United Nations Transitional Administration in Kosovo and East Timor: A First Analysis, in: Max-Planck-
Yearbook of United Nations Law, Vol. 5 (2001), 105-184
- United Nations peacebuilding, amnesties and alternative forms of justice: A change in practice?, International
Review of the Red Cross, Vol. 1 (2002), 191
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- Yugoslav Territory, United Nations Trusteeship or Sovereign State? - Reflections on the current and future
legal status of Kosovo (with A. Zimmermann), Nordic Journal of International Law, Vol. 4 (2001), 423 (cited in
Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, Behrami and Behrami v. France and Saramati v.
France, Germany and Norway, Appl. nos. 71412/01 and 78166/01, 2 May 2007)
- Constitution Without a State? Kosovo Under the United Nations Constitutional Framework for Self-
Government, Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 14 (2001), 531-561, cited in ICJ, Advisory Opinion,
Accordance with international law of the unilateral declaration of independence in respect of Kosovo, Separate
Opinion of Judge Concado Trindade, 22 July 2010)
- NGOs and International Peacekeeping - Issues, prospects and lessons learned, Zeitschrift für ausländisches
öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Vol. 61 (2001), p. 379-401
- International Territorial Administration in the Former Yugoslavia, Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches
Recht und Völkerrecht, Vol. 61 (2001), p. 107-176 (cited in European Court of Human Rights, Beric and Others
v. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 16 October 2007)
German
- Zwischen Innovation und Umbruch: Eine Momentaufnahme des internationalen Strafgerichtshofs, Humanitäres
Völkerrecht (2004), 170
- Föderalismus im Dienste der Friedenssicherung: Bosnien-Herzegowina unter dem Friedensabkommen von
Dayton, Jahrbuch des Föderalismus (2002), 388-403
- Deutsche Rechtsprechung in völkerrechtlichen Fragen 2000, Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht
und Völkerrecht, Vol. 62 (2002), 477-544
- Die verfassungsrechtliche Pflicht zur Gleichstellung der drei ethnischen Volksgruppen in den bosnischen
Teilrepubliken - Neue Hoffnung für das Friedensmodell von Dayton, Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches
Recht und Völkerrecht, Vol. 60 (2000), 663-713
- Gute Nachbarschaft um jeden Preis? Einige Anmerkungen zur Anbindung der USA an das Statut des
Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs, Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Vol. 60
(2000), 631-662
- Die Umsetzung des Rom-Statuts in nationales Recht - Ein erster rechtsvergleichender Überblick, Humanitäres
Völkerrecht (2000), 200-206
- Vorbehalte zu Menschenrechtsverträgen, Europäische Grundrechte Zeitschrift (2000), 607-619
- Die Volksrepublik China und Taiwan: Zwei Staaten, eine Nation ?, Der STAAT (2000), 73-95
- Streitkräfte im Wandel - Zu den Auswirkungen der EuGH-Urteile Sirdar und Kreil auf das deutsche Recht,
Europäische Grundrechte Zeitschrift (2000), 121-135
- Über das Verhältnis von Internationalem Menschenrechtsschutz und Völkerstrafrecht anhand des Statuts von
Rom“ (with Sven.-R. Eiffler), Kritische Vierteljahresschrift 1999, 253-277.
- Internationaler Menschenrechtsschutz und Völkerstrafrecht, Kritische Justiz (1999), 343-354
- Das Statut des Weltstrafgerichtshofs: Ein Überblick über Entstehung, Inhalt und Bedeutung (with G. Seidel),
Jura 1999, 14-21
- Zwischen Weltfrieden und materieller Gerechtigkeit: Die Gerichtsbarkeit des Ständigen Internationalen
Gerichtshofs, Europäische Grundrechte Zeitschrift (1998), 577-591
Spanish
- La geometría de la justicia transicional: opciones de diseno institucional, in A. Rettberg (ed), Entre El Perdón
y el Paredón: Preguntas y dilemas de la justicia transicional (2005), 81-142
OTHER
- Connally Reservation, in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (OUP, 2010)
- Review Essay: Between harmonization and fragmentation: New groundwork on ad courts and tribunals,
Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 19 (2006), 567-577
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VII. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- Member German Society of International Law
- Coordinator, Marie Curie Research Course and Top Summer School International Criminal Law, FP6 EU
project (with L. van den Herik), Grotius Centre for Int’l. Legal Studies, Leiden University, Campus Den Haag
(2008 – 2010)
- European Society of International Law, Proponent: Interest Group on Peace and Security (with O. Corten, T.
Christakis & J. Kleffner)
- Expert, Forum for International Criminal Justice and Conflict, Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Oslo, Norway
- Expert, Hague Forum for Judicial Expertise, The Hague, The Netherlands
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