Harmen van der Wilt is a Professor of International Criminal Law at the Amsterdam School of Law, University of Amsterdam. His research interests lie, among others, in the concepts of criminal responsibility in International Criminal Law, the principle of complementarity at the ICC, criminal procedure of the international criminal tribunals and cooperation between states and the international criminal tribunals as well as European arrest warrant and harmonisation of criminal law in Europe.
Professor Van der Wilt has been involved in professional training programs for judiciary and public prosecutors in Addis Abeba (Ethiopia) and training programs for young staff-members of Lobatchevski University of Nijni Novgorod (Russia). He has been a member of the Research Council of an EU-project on the European Arrest Warrant. Currently, he is a member of the Steering Committee of the EU-project DOMAC (Impact of International Procedures on Domestic Criminal Procedures in Mass Atrocity Cases).
Professor van der Wilt publishes extensively (both in Dutch and English) in the area of the international criminal law. His publications, among others, include: ‘System Criminality in International Law’ (editor, together with André Nollkaemper), Cambridge University Press 2009, ‘Equal Standards? On the Dialectics between National Jurisdictions and the International Criminal Court’, in International Criminal Law Review (2008), ‘Genocide, Complicity in Genocide and International v. Domestic Jurisdiction: Reflections on the van Anraat Case’ and ‘Joint Criminal Enterprise: Possibilities and Limitations’ in the Journal of International Criminal Justice (2006 and 2007).