Senior Lecturer in International Law, The University of Western Australia
Philipp Kastner is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Western Australia. He holds graduate degrees in law from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (D.C.L. and LL.M.) and the University of Innsbruck, Austria (Dr. iur.). His research and teaching interests include the resolution of armed conflicts, international criminal law, transitional justice, international human rights and humanitarian law, public international law, the law of the sea, legal pluralism and legal theory. Recent publications include "International Criminal Justice in bello? The ICC between Law and Politics in Darfur and Northern Uganda" (Martinus Nijhoff, 2012) and "Legal Normativity in the Resolution of Internal Armed Conflict" (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
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