Robert Heinsch

• Dr. jur.
• Leiden University

Written for students working in a range of disciplines, this textbook provides an accessible, balanced, and nuanced introduction to the field of public international law. It explains the basic concepts and legal frameworks of public international law while acknowledging the field's inherent complexities and controversies. Featuring numerous careful...

Written for students working in a range of disciplines, this textbook provides an accessible, balanced, and nuanced introduction to the field of public international law. It explains the basic concepts and legal frameworks of public international law while acknowledging the field's inherent complexities and controversies. Featuring numerous careful...

One of the traditional criteria for statehood under the Montevideo Convention is that an entity possesses an ‘effective government’. Against this backdrop, this article discusses the impact of belligerent occupation on Palestine’s ability to possess an effective government, and thus fulfil the criteria for statehood. It argues that, as a matter of...

On 6 September 2017, Professor Emeritus Frits Kalshoven passed away at the age of 93. I learned about his passing the day afterwards, and although in some ways it should not have come as a complete surprise given his age, it had a very deep emotional impact on me. This was not only from the perspective of an international humanitarian lawyer, since...

Over the past 150 years, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been one of the main drivers of progressive development in international humanitarian law, whilst assuming various roles in the humanization of the laws of war. With select contributions from international experts, this book critically assesses the ICRC's unique influe...

International Law Association Study Group on the Conduct of Hostilities in the 21st Century Published in: International Law Studies Journal V. 93. ISSN: 2375-2831

This chapter examines the phenomenon of ‘foreign fighters’ from an International Criminal Law point of view. The author examines whether the mere status of ‘being a foreign fighter’ entails any kind of individual criminal responsibility. Furthermore, the types of international crimes that may potentially be committed by foreign fighters in internat...

This volume contains several articles on ‘Detention in non-international armed conflict’, including the Copenhagen Process, and moreover features contributions on autonomous weapons systems, Apartheid and the second Turkel Report. It also contains an elaborate ‘Year in Review’ and a special section on the high-level Symposium ‘Boundaries of the Bat...

‘The Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare’ and ‘Child Soldiers and the Lubanga Case’ are the two central themes of this volume. Each of these timely topics is addressed from three different angles, providing a truly comprehensive analysis of the subject. The book also features an article on the duty to investigate civ...

The article provides a first evaluation of the results achieved in Kampala. The author focuses on the definition of aggression which was adopted by consensus in Kampala, providing a solution for the difficult relationship between the ICC and the Security Council with regard to the exercise of jurisdiction. In the author's view the Resolution must a...