Professor William Schabas KC

Highlights

• Professor of human rights law, National University of Ireland, Galway, and Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights (since 2000); also visiting professor at University of Middlesex, London; visiting professor at Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva; honorary professor at Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
• Books include: The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law, 3rd ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002; The UN International Criminal Tribunals: the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006; Introduction to the International Criminal Court, 3rd. ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007; Genocide in International Law, 2nd ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009; The International Criminal Court: A Commentary on the Rome Statute, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Translations of these books have been published in German, Turkish, Chinese, Nepali, Persian, Albanian and Japanese.
• Author of more than 275 academic journal articles
• Member, Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2002-2004)
• Chairman, Board of Trustees, United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights (2009-2010).
• President, International Association of Genocide Studies (2009-2011); Chair, Institute for International Criminal Investigation (2000-••••); President, Irish Branch, International Law Association (2008-••••).
• Officer of the Order of Canada; Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy; honorary doctorates. from: Dalhousie University, Halifax; Case Western Reserve University Faculty of Law, Cleveland; Vespasian V. Pella Medal for International Criminal Justice, Association internationale de droit pénal.
• Editor in Chief, Criminal Law Forum; Editor in Chief, Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law.

Education

• Degree courses: North Toronto Collegiate Institute, Toronto, 1968 (‘senior matriculation’); B.A., history, University of Toronto, 1972 (‘honours history’); M.A., history (international relations), University of Toronto, 1973 (thesis: ‘Anglo-Soviet relations, 1917-1934’); LL.B., University of Montréal, 1983; LL.M., University of Montréal, 1990 (thesis: ‘Use of international human rights law before the Canadian courts’); LL.D., University of Montréal, 1992 (thesis: ‘The abolition of the death penalty in international law’).
• Other courses, etc.: Bar admission school, Québec Bar, 1984; Course in International Humanitarian Law given by the Canadian Red Cross Society, Ottawa, August, 1991; Course in International Humanitarian Law given by the Graduate Institute for International Studies, Geneva, July, 1993; Internship at the European Commission of Human Rights, Strasbourg, June-July, 1994; Workshop on International Organization Studies, given by the Academic Council on the United Nations System and the American Society of International Law, Providence, Rhode Island, July, 1994.