Mr. Jérôme de Hemptinne (UCLouvain, University of Lille, Strasbourg, Utrecht, Geneva Academy) will deliver the lecture on “International Criminal Crimes. Case Studies: the context of Russian-Ukrainian war and Israeli-Palestinian conflict” on Saturday November 22nd, 2025 from 4 p.m to 6 p.m. After a law degree at the University of Louvain (1992) and two LL.M. (Master of Law) in public international law at the University of Cambridge (1994) and at the New York University (NYU) (1995), Jerome De Hemptinne worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for about nine years where, notably he acted as Chef de Cabinet for the President. In 2006, he joined the Office of Legal Counsel of the United Nations in New York. Between 2008-2015, he worked at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon as a senior legal officer. He is currently researcher with the Geneva Academy for Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law. He is also teaching international humanitarian law (IHL) at the Universities of Louvain, Lille and Strasbourg. Jérôme de Hemptinne is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University and teaches, at the Geneva Academy, a course on international criminal law in the LLM (Master of Law, Legum Magister) in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and a course on the typology of armed conflicts in the Executive Master in International Law in Armed Conflict. He is co-editor of “Modes of Liability in International Criminal Law” (CUP, 2019) and of “Animals in the International Law of Armed Conflict” (CUP, 2022; ESIL Collective Book Prize, 2023). He is the author of “Les conflits armés en mutation” (Pedone, 2019; Walther Hug Prize, 2020).