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Prof. Dr. Guénaël Mettraux is a Judge of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and a Panel Member of the EU’s Human Rights Review Panel. He has more than 17 years experience advising States, NGOs and individuals on issues of international criminal law. In particular, Dr. Mettraux has been counseling States in the context of ICC proceedings and in relation to the investigation and prosecution of international crimes. Over that period of time, he has also been acting as defence counsel in high-profile war crimes and terrorism cases (including as appeal counsel for General Gotovina, as trial and appeal counsel for Bosnia-Herzegovina’s first Army Commander, General Halilovic and Macedonian Minister, Ljube Boskoski, as counsel before the Special Tribunal for Lebanon – Rafik Hariri assassination). He has appeared in that capacity before the ICTY, ICTR, ICC and STL. Dr. Mettraux is Professor Emeritus of international criminal law and procedure at the University of Amsterdam, guest Professor at the University of Fribourg (Swtizerland) and Affiliate Professor of International Criminal Law Practice at the Dickinson Law School, PennState University. He has published widely in the field of international criminal law including three books published by Oxford University Press (“The Law of Command Responsibility”, which was awarded the 2009 Lieber Prize for books, “Perspectives on the Nuremberg Trial”, “International Crimes and the ad hoc Tribunals”). He is publishing a 4-volume compendium for Oxford University Press on the law of international crimes, with the first volume on genocide coming out in June 2019. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economic and Political Science (LSE), an LLM from University College London (UCL) and a Law Degree from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland).