Prof. William A. Schabas: “War Time London and the Beginnings of the International Criminal Court”

​William A. Schabas is a professor of international law at Middlesex University in London. He is also a professor of international criminal law and human rights at Leiden University, emeritus professor of human rights law at the National University of Ireland Galway, honorary chairman of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, and a distinguished visiting professor at the Paris School of International Affairs (Sciences-Po). He is the author of Introduction to the International Criminal Court, The International Criminal Court: A Commentary on the Rome Statute and Unimaginable Atrocities: Justice, Politics and Rights at the War Crimes Tribunals as well as many other books and articles on such subjects as the abolition of capital punishment, genocide and the international criminal tribunals. Professor Schabas was a member of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He is president of the Irish Branch of the International Law Association and chair of the Institute for International Criminal Investigation. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a member of the Royal Irish Academy and holds several honorary doctorates.