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Dr. Carsten Stahn

Dr Carsten Stahn has special expertise and interests in the areas of International Criminal Law, International Courts and Tribunals, Transitional Justice, Peace and Security and the Law of International Organizations. He has previously worked as Legal Officer in Chambers of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (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). Dr Stahn is author of The Law and Practice of International Territorial Administration: Versailles to Iraq and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and numerous articles on international criminal law and transitional justice, as well as co-editor of several collections of essays in the field of international criminal law (The Emerging Practice of the International Criminal Court, Martinus Nijhoff, 2008, Future Perspectives on International Criminal Justice, T.M.C. Asser Press – Cambridge University Press, 2009). He is Senior ICC editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law, Managing Editor of the Criminal Law Forum and Correspondent of the Netherlands International Law Review. He coordinates the Marie Curie Research Course and Top Summer School on International Criminal Law (together with Dr. Larissa van den Herik) and is co-proponent of the Interest Group on Peace and Security of the European Society of International Law.

Selected Publications

1. Books:

The Law and Practice of International Territorial Administration: Versailles to Iraq and Beyond, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, 2008 (http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521878005)

Jus Post Bellum: Towards a law of transition from conflict to peace, TMC Asser Press/CUP, 2008 (Editor, with Dr. J. Kleffner) (http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9789067042727)

The Emerging Practice of the International Criminal Court, Martinus Nijhoff, 2008 (Editor, with Prof. G. Sluiter)

Future Perspectives on International Criminal Justice, T.M.C Asser Press – Cambridge University Press, 2009 (Editor, with Dr. L. van den Herik)

2. Edited Journal symposia

Legal problems of the Lubanga Case, Criminal Law Forum, Vol. 19/3-4 (2008)

The International Criminal Court and Cooperation, Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 21/2 (2008) (together with Dr. V. Nerlich)

The International Criminal Court and Complementarity: Five Years on, Criminal Law Forum, Vol. 19/1 (2008) (with Prof. W. Schabas and Dr. M. El Zeidy)

The International Criminal Court and the Shortcomings of Domestic Legislation, Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 20 (2007), 165

3. Articles

Judicial Review of Prosecutorial Discretion: Five Years on, in C. Stahn & G. Sluiter, The Emerging Practice of the International Criminal Court, Martinus Nijhoff (2008), 247-279

Judicial Review of Prosecutorial Discretion: On experiments and imperfections, in G. Sluiter (ed.), International Criminal Procedure (2008) (forthcoming)   

Jus Post Bellum: Mapping the Discipline(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

Participation of Victims in Pre-Trial Proceedings of the ICC, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 4 (2006), 219-238, (with H. Olasolo & K. Gibson) (cited by ICC, Office of Public Counsel for the Defence, Situation in Darfur, 2007).

“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

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 by ICC, Office of the Prosecutor, Prosecutor  v. Lubanga, 2007)

Justice under transitional administration: Contours and critique of a paradigm, Houston Journal of International Law, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2005), 311-342

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

Nicaragua is dead, long live Nicaragua, in Terrorism as a Challenge for National and International Law: Security versus Liberty (C. Walter, S. Vöneky, V. Röben, F. Schorkopf eds., 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

The Agreement on Succession Issues of the former SFRY of 29 June 2001, American Journal of International Law, Vol.  96 (2002), 379-401

International Law at a Crossroads: The impact of September 11, Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Vol. 62 (2002), 183-256

Accommodating Individual Criminal Responsibility and National Reconciliation: The UN Truth Commission for East Timor, American Journal of International Law, Vo; 95 (2001), 952-966

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

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 by Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, 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

NGOs and International Peacekeeping - Issues, prospects and lessons learned, Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Vol. 61 (2001), 379-401

International Territorial Administration in the Former Yugoslavia, Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Vol. 61 (2001), 107-176