Dr. Fabian Raimondo (Assistant Professor)
Bouillonstraat 1-3
Maastricht
P.O.Box 616
NL-6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
E-mail: fabian.raimondo@maastrichtuniversity.nl
List of publications: Metis
Curriculum vitae
Dr Raimondo joined Maastricht University in 2009 and he is Assistant Professor at the Department of International and European Law since then. In this academic year he has coordinated the bachelor course International Law and co-coordinated the bachelor course Internationaal en Europees Recht, which are given by staff of Maastricht University at Hasselt University, Belgium). Before joining Maastricht University, Dr Raimondo worked at Erasmus University Rotterdam (2006-2009), the University of Amsterdam (2003-2005), and the National University of La Plata (Argentina) (1997-2000). He was a Visiting Scholar at Washington College of Law (2011) and he has instructed courses on international human rights law at the Lim A Po Institute for Social Sciences (Paramaribo) (2011), on International Criminal Law at Tbilisi State University (2011), and on international human rights law at China University of Political Sciences and Law (Beijing) 2010). His course International Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam was awarded the Best Bachelor Course Prize in 2008.
At present Dr Raimondo is researching the relationship between cultural diversity and international criminal law. His most recent publications are ‘For Further Research on the Relationship Between Cultural Diversity and International Criminal Law’ (11 International Criminal Law Review 2011, p. 299); ‘Overcoming Legal Impediments to the Investigation and Prosecution of Human Rights Abuses in Argentina’ (18 Human Rights Brief 2011); and ‘General Principles of Law, Judicial Creativity and the Development of International Criminal Law’ (in Shane Darcy and Joe Powderly (eds.), Judicial Creativity at the International Criminal Tribunals, Oxford University Press, New York, 2010, pp. 45-59). He is also the author of General Principles of Law in the Decisions of International Criminal Courts and Tribunals (Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 2008).
Dr Raimondo is a member of the List of Counsel before the International Criminal Court; in this capacity he has advised individuals and NGOs on victims’ participation in the Court’s proceedings. In 2011 he acted as a legal adviser to a national government in the case against Radovan Karadzic before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Well before, in 2000 and in 2002, he worked for the Office of the Prosecutor of this tribunal, first as a law clerk and later as an associate legal officer. In these capacities he was involved in the appellate proceedings of the first genocide cases before the Rwanda Tribunal (Akayesu case; Rutaganda case; and Kayishema and Ruzindana case).
Dr Raimondo is a member of the Colegio de Abogados de La Plata since 1990. In Argentina he acted as defence counsel in criminal cases and as legal representative of victims in criminal and private law cases. He was also the Secretary-General of Amnesty International Argentina (1998-2000).
Expertise
- International criminal law
- International humanitarian law
- Inter-American system on human rights
