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Dino Kritsiotis

Professor of Public International Law, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Biography

Dino Kritsiotis is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Nottingham, where he has taught since October 1994. He serves as Co-Director of the Nottingham International Law & Security Centre (NILSC), where he is the founding head of the International Humanitarian Law Unit (established in 2012).

Professor Kritsiotis is a recognized authority in the field of public international law, where he specializes in the legal regulation of force and armed conflict (international humanitarian law), as well as the history and theory of public international law. He is co-editor (with Michael J. Bowman) of Conceptual and Contextual Perspectives on the Modern Law of Treaties (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and his lectures on "International Law and the Problematization of Consent" from the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg in November 2018, will appear as Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War (Vol. IV: Intervention by Consent) (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Recent publications include "Fourteen Ways of Looking Back at the Treaty of Versailles," London Review of International Law (2020), Vol. 8, pp. 43-88, and "The Elusive Peace of Panmunjom," in Matthew R. Craven, Sundhya Pahuja and Gerry J. Simpson (eds.), International Law and the Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 49-77.

Among his current projects, Professor Kritsiotis is co-editor (together with Eyal Benvenisti of the University of Cambridge) of the Cambridge History of International Law (Vol. XII: International Law After the Cold War). He is also working on a detailed reading and re-reading (in light of the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice) of the Caroline correspondence (1838-1842) between Great Britain and the United States of America. This formed the basis of "A Return to the Caroline Correspondence," which was delivered as the inaugural Sir Elihu Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture at the University of Cambridge in October 2017.

Professor Kritsiotis sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Conflict and Security Law (Oxford University Press); the Human Rights Law Review (Oxford University Press); the African Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (Juta Publishing) and the Journal of the Use of Force and International Law (Hart Publishing). He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Journal of International Law (Oxford University Press) and was a founding convenor (with Anne Orford of Melbourne Law School and J.H.H. Weiler of NYU) of the Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law (2012-2022).

Research Summary

Research interests in international law on the use of force and armed conflict, democracy, the United Nations, and the history and theory of international law.

Recent Publications

  • DINO KRITSIOTIS, 2018. "The Object and Purpose of A Treaty's Object and Purpose". In: MICHAEL J. BOWMAN AND DINO KRITSIOTIS (EDS.), ed., Conceptual and Contextual Perspectives on the Modern Law of Treaties pp. 237-302
  • DINO KRITSIOTIS, 2016. Theorizing International Law on Force and Intervention. In: ANNE ORFORD AND FLORIAN HOFFMANN (EDS.),, ed., Oxford Handbook on the Theory of International Law First. Oxford University Press. 655-683
  • DINO KRITSIOTIS, 2016. War and Armed Conflict: The Parameters of Enquiry. In: RAIN LIIVOJA AND TIM MCCORMACK (EDS.),, ed., Routledge Handbook of the Law of Armed Conflict Routledge. 5-32
  • DINO KRITSIOTIS, 2015. Interrogations of Consent: A Reply to Erika de Wet European Journal of International Law. 26(4), 999-1008

PhD Supervision

I am interested in supervising students who want to work on the following areas:

  • History of International Law
  • International Humanitarian Law
  • Use of Force

Current PhD Students

Recent PhD Students

  • DINO KRITSIOTIS, 2018. "The Object and Purpose of A Treaty's Object and Purpose". In: MICHAEL J. BOWMAN AND DINO KRITSIOTIS (EDS.), ed., Conceptual and Contextual Perspectives on the Modern Law of Treaties pp. 237-302
  • DINO KRITSIOTIS, 2016. War and Armed Conflict: The Parameters of Enquiry. In: RAIN LIIVOJA AND TIM MCCORMACK (EDS.),, ed., Routledge Handbook of the Law of Armed Conflict Routledge. 5-32
  • DINO KRITSIOTIS, 2016. Theorizing International Law on Force and Intervention. In: ANNE ORFORD AND FLORIAN HOFFMANN (EDS.),, ed., Oxford Handbook on the Theory of International Law First. Oxford University Press. 655-683
  • DINO KRITSIOTIS, 2015. Interrogations of Consent: A Reply to Erika de Wet European Journal of International Law. 26(4), 999-1008
  • DINO KRITSIOTIS, 2014. North Korea and Starvation: An Ongoing Crime Against Humanity Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Rights and the Law. 15(1&2), 13-30
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2012. International law and the relativities of enforcement. In: CRAWFORD, J.R. and KOSKENNIEMI, M., eds., The Cambridge companion to international law Cambridge University Press. 245-268
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2011. The Contingencies of Piracy California Western International Law Journal. 43, 305-343
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2010. On the Possibilities of and for Persistent Objection Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law. 21, 121-141 (In Press.)
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2010. The tremors of Tadić Israel Law Review. 43(2), 262-300
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2009. The War on Terror and the Problematique of the War Paradigm Human Rights & Human Welfare. 9, 11-27.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2009. Close encounters of a sovereign kind European Journal of International Law. 20(2), 299-330
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2009. Public International Law and Its Territorial Imperative Michigan Journal of International Law. 30(3), 547-566
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2009. International law and the violence of non-state actors. In: KAIKOBAD, K.H. and BOHLANDER, M., eds., International law and power: perspectives on legal order and justice: essays in honour of Colin Warbrick Koninklijke Brill NV. 343-386
  • KRITSIOTIS, D. and SIMPSON, A.W.B., 2009. The Pitcairn prosecutions: an assessment of their historical context by reference to the provisions of public international law. In: OLIVER, D., ed., Justice, legality, and the rule of law: lessons from the Pitcairn prosecutions Oxford University Press. 93-129
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2009. Terrorism, War and International Law: Response to Michael Byers. In: MILLER, C., ed., "War on Terror": The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2006 Manchester University Press.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2008. Humanitarian Warfare: Towards An African Appreciation. In: LEVITT, J.I., ed., Mapping New Boundaries: Africa and International Law Hart Publishing. 149-180.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2007. Review of Jean-Marie Henckaerts & Louise Doswald-Beck (eds.), International Committee of the Red Cross Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law (Vol I: Rules, Vol. II: Practice) (2005) American Journal of International Law. 101, 692-695.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2007. Topographies of force. In: SCHMITT, M.N. and PEJIC, J., eds., International law and armed conflict: exploring the faultlines: essays in honour of Yoram Dinstein Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff. 29-77
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2006. Questions of Fact and Evidence and the Laws of Force Proceedings of the American Society of International Law. 100, 39-40.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2006. Review of Anne Orford, Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law (2003) Modern Law Review. 69, 1026-1030.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2006. Humanitarian Intervention. In: ROBERTSON R. and SCHOLTE, J.A., eds., Encyclopaedia of Globalization Routledge. 1131-1139.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2004. Memorandum on the Principles and Rules of the International law on Self-Defence Royal Institute of International Affairs.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2004. When states use armed force. In: REUS-SMIT, C., ed., The politics of international law Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 45-79
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2004. Arguments of mass confusion European Journal of International Law. 15(2), 233-278
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2002. On the jus ad bellum and jus in bello of Operation Enduring Freedom. In: Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 96. 35-41.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2002. Imagining the international community European Journal of International Law. 13(4), 961-992
  • KRITSIOTIS,D., 2001. Review of T. Meron, War Crimes Law Comes of Age: Essays (Oxford: Clarendon Press)(1999) Journal of Conflict and Security Law. 5,
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2001. Regulating the Rights of Humanitarian Intervention: The Application of the Principles of Neccessity and Proportionality in International Law In: Unknown.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2001. Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda): Provisional Measures International and Comparative Law Quarterly. VOL 50(PART 3), 662-669
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2001. The Promise and the Perils of Situating Humanitarian Intervention within the Powers and Responsibilities of the Security Council In: ASIL/ACUNS Workshop on Humanitarian Intervention and the Role of International Organisations.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2000. The Criminal Repression of Violations of International Humanitarian Law In: Warsaw Summer School.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2000. International Humanitarian Law and the Disintegration of States Israel Yearbook of Human Rights. VOL 30, 17-36
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2000. The Kosovo Crisis and NATO's Application of Armed Force Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia In: Unknown.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2000. Statement on the Application of International Humanitarian Law in the case of Issa and Others v Turkey (No. 21821/96)
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 2000. Understanding Law and Politics in International Relations: A Relationship of Change and Circumstance In: When Right Meets Might: Rethinking the Politics of International Law.
  • KRITSIOTIS,D., 2000. The Kosovo Crisis and NATO's Application of Armed Force Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia International and Comparative Law Quarterly. 49, 330-359
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1999. On the Punishment and Prevention of Genocide and an Exposition of Its Legal Particulars In: Unknown.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1999. Contemplating the Future of Africa's Amnesty Boom In: Eleventh Annual Conference of the African Society of International and Comparative Law.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1999. The Future of Warfare: A Reassertion of the Principles of Humanitarian Law and An Appreciation of Their Uses and Limitations In: Ivan Bloch Commemorative Conference on the Future of War.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1999. Report on Custom Developing in Disintegrated States
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1999. Justiciability Before the International Court of Justice In: Unknown.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1999. The Kosovo Crisis and NATO's Application of Armed Force Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia In: Unknown.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1999. The Kosovo Crisis and NATO's Application of Armed Force Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia In: Department of War Studies.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1999. The Legal Protection of Civilians During Armed Conflict In: Warsaw Summer School.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1999. Security Council Resolution 1101 (1997) and the Multinational Protection Force of Operation Alba in Albania Leiden Journal of International Law. VOL 12(NUMBER 3), 511-548
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1999. On the Punishment and Prevention of Genocide and an Exposition of Its Legal Particulars In: Unknown.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1999. The Legal Travails of Kind-Hearted Gunmen Modern Law Review. VOL 62(NUMBER 6), 937-956
  • KRITSIOTIS,D., 1998. Reappraising Policy Considerations on Humanitarian Intervention Michigan Journal of International Law. 19, 1005-1050
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1998. The Power of International Law as Language California Western Law Review. VOL 34(NUMBER 2), 397-410
  • KRITSIOTIS,D., 1998. Review of D. Bethlehem and M. Weller (eds.), The Yugoslav Crisis in International Law: General Issues (Part I)(Cambridge: Grotius Publications/Cambridge University Press)(1997) International and Comparative Law Quarterly. 47, 726-727
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1998. Walter Clarke and Jeffrey Herbst (eds), Learning from Somalia: The Lessons of Armed Humanitarian Intervention INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING -LONDON-. VOL 5(NUMB 2), 145-147
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1998. Mercenaries and the Privatization of Warfare Fletcher Forum of World Affairs. VOL 22(NUMBER 2), 11-26
  • KRITSIOTIS,D., 1997. Developing Approaches Towards Legitimising Intervention on Humanitarian Grounds Journal of Armed Conflict Law. 2, 91-102
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1997. Reappraising Policy Objections to Humanitarian Intervention In: Annual meeting of the Society of Public Teachers of Law (International Law).
  • KRITSIOTIS,D., 1997. Review of Y. Dinstein, War, Aggression and Self-Defence (Cambridge: CUP)(1995) African Journal of Comprative and International Law. 9, 528-531
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1997. The Use of Force to Protect Elected Governments in International Law In: Conference on the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt.
  • KRITSIOTIS,D., 1996. Review of V. Lowe and M. Fitzmaurice (eds.), Fifty Years of the International Court of Justice: Essays in Honour of Sir Robert Jennings (Cambridge: CUP) (1996) African Journal of Comprative and International Law. 8, 752-753
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1996. Humanitarian Intervention: The Provenance of Contemporary Applications of Forces in International Law In: Unknown.
  • KRITSIOTIS,D., 1996. The Legality of the 1993 U.S. Missile Strike on Iraq and the Right of Self-Defence in International Law International and Comparative Law Quarterly. 45, 162-177
  • KRITSIOTIS,D., 1996. Review of Issues in Global Governance: Papers Written for the Commission on Global Governance (London; Boston: Kluwer Law International in association with the Commission on Global Governance)(1995) British Yearbook of International Law. 67, 507-508
  • KRITSIOTIS,D., 1996. The Fate of Nuclear Weapons After the 1996 Advisory Opinions of the World Court Journal of Armed Conflict Law. 1, 95-119
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1995. Humanitarian Intervention: The Provenance of Contemporary Applications of Forces in International Law In: 7th Annual Conference of the African Society of International Law on the Contribution of the United Nations Organisation, its Agencies and Organs to the maintenance of World Peace and Economic Develop.
  • KRITSIOTIS,D., 1995. Review of D.M. Beatty (ed.), Human Rights and Judicial Review: A Comparative Perspective (Brill)(1994) European Public Law. 1, 478-479
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1994. Uti Possidetis and the Sudan: An African Crisis in Perspective. In: Self-Determination: Cases of Crisis -A Collection of Essays 71-91
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., ed., 1994. Self-Determination: Cases of Crisis - A Collection of Essays Hull University Press, Hull, UK.
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., CULLEN, H. and WHEELER, N.D., eds., 1993. Politics and Law of Former Yugoslavia (European Community Research Unit, Research Paper No. 3/93
  • KRITSIOTIS, D., 1993. International Law and the Use of Force: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In: Politics and Law of Former Yugoslavia (European Community Research Unit, Research Paper No. 3/93) 45-51
  • DINO KRITSIOTIS, "The Indian Intervention in East Pakistan (Bangladesh), 1971". In: International Law and the Use of Force: A Case-based Approach Oxford University Press. pp. 169-188
  • "The Establishment, Change and Expansion of Jurisdiction through Treaties". In: The Oxford Handbook on Jurisdiction in International Law pp. 251-299
  • DINO KRITSIOTIS, "On the Multiple Legal Justifications for Military Action" Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht. 79, pp. 691-694
  • DINO KRITSIOTIS, "Fourteen Ways of Looking Back at the Treaty of Versailles" London Review of International Law. 8, pp. 43-88
  • Humanitarian Intervention. In: TONY CARTY, ed., Oxford Bibliographies Online: Oxford Oxford University Press. (In Press.)

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