The United Nations Principles to Combat Impunity: A Commentary
Edited by Frank Haldemann and Thomas Unger
Author Information
Frank Haldemann, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Geneva, Thomas Unger, Researcher, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Frank Haldemann is the Co-Director of the Master of Advanced Studies in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. Since 2010 he has been teaching Transitional Justice within the Geneva Academy's various programmes. From June 2011 to July 2017, he was Assistant Professor at the Law Faculty, University of Geneva. In 2011 he was awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship, enabling him to direct a five-year research project on "Historical Injustices, Reparations and International Law". In 2014 and 2015 he directed the Antonio Cassese Summer School in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and Conflict hosted by the Geneva Academy. Prior to joining the Geneva Academy, Frank Haldemann was a post-doctoral fellow at the New York University School of Law, the University of Leiden and the University of Pretoria. He also worked as a legal researcher with the Independent Commission of Experts Switzerland - Second World War (the 'Bergier Commission') and was a visiting professor at the University of Leiden, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Libera Università Maria Ss. Assunta di Roma and Université Catholique de Louvain. Frank Haldemann holds a degree in Law from the University of Fribourg, an LLM from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a doctorate in Law from the University of Zurich.
Thomas Unger is a researcher on transitional justice at the Geneva Academy and Co-Director of the Master of Advanced Studies in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law. He is the former Senior Adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence.
With more than 15 years of expertise in the field of transitional justice, he was previously a legal adviser on human rights and international humanitarian law to the Austrian Foreign Ministry, and a senior associate of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). He also worked as a legal system monitor with the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, and as a legal clerk with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Thomas Unger holds a degree in Law from the University of Vienna, an LLM in International Legal Studies from New York University School of Law and a Master's in Human Rights and Democratization from the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratization (Venice).
Contributors:
Professor Kai Ambos, Georg August Universität Göttingen
Dr Alison Bisset, University of Reading
Valentina Cadelo, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Professor John D. Ciorciari, University of Michigan
Professor Pierre d'Argent, University of Louvain
Isabelle de Ghellinck, Université Catholique de Louvain
Dr Max du Plessis, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Roger Duthie, International Center for Transitional Justice
Mark Freeman, Institute for Integrated Transitions
Professor Paola Gaeta, University Luigi Bocconi
Christopher Gosnell, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Professor Dermot Groome, The Pennsylvania State University
Lucas S. Grosman, Universidad de San Andrés
Professor Frank Haldemann, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Professor Colin Harvey, Queen's University Belfast
Catherine Harwood, Leiden University
Dr Sandra Krähenmann, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Professor Lisa J. Laplante, Center for International Law and Policy
Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, University of Minnesota
Dr Alexander Mayer-Rieckh, Independent Expert
Ilya Nuzov, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Professor Diane Orentlicher, American University
Trudy Huskamp Peterson, Certified Archivist
Professor Giulia Pinzauti, Leiden University
Isabel Robinson, Independent Lawyer
Professor Naomi Roht-Arriaza, University of California
Professor Robert Roth, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Professor William Schabas, Leiden University
Ilia Siatitsa, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Professor Carsten Stahn, Leiden University
Thomas Unger, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Professor Theo van Boven, University of Maastricht
Howard Varney, International Center for Transitional Justice
Dr Julia Viebach, University of Oxford
Marieke Wierda, Leiden University
