Targeting Cultural Heritage

Original sketch by Hirad Abtahi

Books and Book Chapters

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1. Adjudicating Attacks Targeting Culture, Revisiting the Approach under State Responsibility and Individual Criminal Responsibility

Leiden Studies on the Frontiers of International Law, Volume 10Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Published 19 January 2023

2. Le conflit armé du printemps 2003 en Iraq et le sort du patrimoine culturel mésopotamien

Book chapter in L’intervention en Irak et le droit international, Karine Bannelier, Olivier Corten, Théodore Christakis & Pierre Klein (eds.), collection « Cahiers internationaux » No. 23, CEDIN Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Pédone, Paris 2004

3. Murdered Twin Buddhas and Annihilated Twin Towers: Traumatized Civilization

Book chapter in The Trauma of Terrorism, Sharing Knowledge and Shared Care, An International Handbook, Yael Danieli, Danny Brom, & Joe Sills (Eds.), 2005; and in Journal of Aggression Maltreatment & Trauma, IX/1-2, 2004

Articles

1. Does international criminal law protect culture in times of trouble?

Defining the scope, Brazilian Yearbook of International Law, II, 2007

2. Le patrimoine culturel iraquien à l’épreuve de l’intervention militaire du printemps 2003

Actualité et Droit International, May 2003

3. The Protection of Cultural Property in Times of Armed Conflicts: the Practice of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

Harvard Human Rights Journal, XIV, Spring 2001

4. From the Destruction of the Twin Buddhas to the Destruction of the Twin Towers: Crimes against Civilisation under the ICC Statute

International Criminal Law Review, IV/1, March 2004

Academic Teachings and Presentations

1. Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), Master in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action, Paris, France, Since 2018

Adjunct Faculty – teaching a spring semester course on State responsibility and individual criminal responsibility; preparing and grading students’ assessments

2. The Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague, The Netherlands, February 2008

Taught a winter course on cultural property and war crimes

3. Centro de Direito International (CEDIN), Federal University of Minas Gerais, International Law Winter Course II, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, July 2006

Taught a winter semester course on international criminal law

4. Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Centre de Droit international (CEDIN), Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), & Centre de recherches et d’études sur les droits de l’Homme et le droit humanitaire (CREDHO), Paris, France, October 2003

Academic Presentation: Aspects juridique de la crise en Irak en 2003

5. York University, School of Public Policy and Administration, Toronto, Canada, October 2006

Academic Presentation: Human Rights: Does any One Culture Own the Concept?

6. T.M.C. Asser Institute, Leiden University, and the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC), The Hague, The Netherlands, April 2006 

Academic Presentation: On the Destruction of Culture in Times of Trouble: or on the Oscillations of International Criminal Law

Interviews and Webinars

1. Protecting Culture 

Persia Educational Foundation, 31 March 2023

2. La Capacité des Nations face à la destruction du patrimoine

Le Monde, Martine Jacot, March 2005

Trainings