Just Peace After Conflict

Carsten Stahn is Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at Leiden University and is Professor of Public International Law and International Criminal Justice at Queen's University Belfast School of Law. He has previously worked as Legal Officer in Chambers of the International Criminal Court (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). He has published 13 books and over 70 articles/essays in different fields of international law and international justice. He is Editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law and Correspondent of the Netherlands International Law Review. Jens Iverson is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden Law School. A member of the California Bar, the Thurston Society, and the Order of the Coif, he received his Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of California, Hastings, and his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University. He has worked with the Cambodian Genocide Program, the Documentation Centre of Cambodia, and the Coalition for the International Criminal Court. As the co-founder of a human rights clinic, he helped represent the former Prime Minister of Haiti in a successful petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that ultimately resulted in a landmark ruling requiring Haitian prison reform. He has practiced at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on both the Popovic et al and Prlic et al cases.