Current Activities

Krit Zeegers is a Ph. D. Researcher within the Amsterdam Center for International Law. His research focuses on the application of international human rights norms in international criminal proceedings and possible mechanisms to supervise compliance. In Addition, Krit has taught criminal procedure (strafprocesrecht) in the LL.B. programme and International Human Rights Law, an elective in the LL.M. programme in International and European Law.

Background

Krit obtained his Ba. in liberal arts & sciences from University College Utrecht in 2008 (cum laude), he majored in international law and political science and took a minor in history. Krit spent one semester at the University of Hong Kong, where he focused on international human rights protection and Asian history. After obtaining his bachelor's degree, he moved to the University of Amsterdam to acquire his LL.B in january 2010 (cum laude). He spent one summer in Geneva as an intern with the Unesco liaison office to attend the ECOSOC sessions at the UN Office in Geneva.

In September 2010, Krit obtained his LL.M in Public International Law (cum laude), focusing on international criminal law and international human rights. Krit was a legal intern in the Chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and worked as a research assistant for the Amsterdam Center for International Law, before he started his Ph. D. in October 2010.

Publications

2011

'Defence Counsel Immunity in International Criminal Law'  International Criminal Law Review, Vol. 11, Issue 5 (2011);

2012

'Commentary - Prlić et al. - Decision on the interlocutory appeal against the Trial Chamber's Decision on presentation of documents by the Prosecution in cross-examinationof Defence witnesses (ICTY Appeals Chamber)'.Klip & G. Sluiter, Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Law - Vol. 38

'Commentary - Mejakić et al. - Decision on Referral under Rule 11bis (ICTY Appeals Chamber)' A. Klip & G. Sluiter, Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Law - Vol. 28;

'Headnote - ICL 1506' (Situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Judgement on the Prosecutor's Application for Extraordinary Review of Pre-Trial Chamber I's 31 March 2006 Decision Denying Leave to Appeal, Case no ICC-01/04; ICL 1506 (ICC 2006), 13 July 2006), Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law, Oxford University Press;

'Headnote - ICL 1512' (Prosecutor v Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Decision on the Prosecution and Defence applications for leave to appeal the Decision on the confirmation of charges, Case no ICC-01/04-01/06; ICL 1512 (ICC 2007), 24 May 2007) Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law, Oxford University Press;

'Headnote - ICL 1522' (Prosecutor v Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, Decision on the “Defence Application pursuant to Article 57(3)(b) of the Statute to Seek the Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)”, Case No ICC-01/04-01/07; ICL 1522 (ICC 2008), 25 April 2008) Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law, Oxford University Press; 

2013

'Commentary - Article 19 ICTR Statute', in P. de Hert et al., Code of International Criminal Law and Procedure - Annotated, Brussels: Larcier 2013;

'De invloed van internationale mensenrechten op het internationaal strafprocesrecht', in D. Abels e.a., Dialectiek van het nationaal en internationaal strafrecht, Den Haag: Boom Juridische Uitgevers 2013;

'Casenote - European Court of Human Rights, Judgement, Maktouf and Damjanovic v. Bosnia-Herzegovina (App. Nos 2312/08 and 34179/08), 18 July 2013, in 14 European Human Rights Cases 11, 2013

2014 (forthcoming)

'Provisional Release before the Ad Hoc Tribunals', in C. Majinge et al.,Essays in Honour of Adama Dieng, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, forthcoming 2014

• For the article on Defence Counsel Immunity, see here

• SSRN Author Page

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