Prof Mr André Klip (A.H.)

Expertises

Criminal law
Criminal Procedural law
International Criminal law
European Criminal law

Career history

André Klip (1965) is Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and the Transnational Aspects of Criminal Law at Maastricht University. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is vice-president of the International Association of Penal Law and directs its Scientific Committee. He has supervised many PhD students and is always interested in new challenging research proposals. He is founder and editor of the Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals (75 volumes since 1999). He is author of European Criminal Law. An integrative Approach (Intersentia Cambridge, 4th edition 2021) and co-author of Comparative Perspectives of Criminal Procedure (Intersentia Cambridge, 2024). He is editor of the European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. Throughout his career, professor Klip has been frequently involved in national and international legal practice. Both as an academic and as a practitioner he is very much engaged in international cooperation. He has been invited as a guest lecturer/ researcher across the globe. Within the Maastricht Institute for Criminal Sciences he participates in an interdisciplinary research group which is frequently invited to conduct studies on crime, perpetrators and how to combat criminal behaviour. He is a judge at the ’s-Hertogenbosch Court of Appeal (criminal division) in the Netherlands.