Profile of Invited Expert “Yanev”

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Full Name
Lachezar Yanev, Ph.D.
Position
Assistant Professor of International Criminal Law
Organization
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology
URL
https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/lachezar-yanev
Biography

Lachezar Yanev is Assistant Professor at the Criminal Law and Criminology Department of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a fellow of the Center for International Criminal Justice. He is also a representative in the T.M.C. Asser Institute’s Platform on International Humanitarian and Criminal Law.

Lachezar holds a Ph.D. (Tilburg University, cum laude) and a LL.M. (Utrecht University, cum laude) degree in international criminal and human rights law. He is the author of Theories of Co-Perpetration in International Criminal Law (Brill Nijhoff, 2018) and one of the editors of the Modes of Liability in International Criminal Law (Cambridge University Press, 2019). His research and publications further extend in the fields of domestic prosecutions of core international crimes, fragmentation of international law, universal jurisdiction, and comparative criminal law.

Lachezar has previously worked as an assistant legal officer in Trial Chamber II of the Special Court for Sierra Leone.

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