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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Law in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Law in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2011 - Gold Medal, Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences
  • 2007 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

William A. Schabas is affiliated with Middlesex University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans social sciences, with a significant focus on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, law, history, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

Their work addresses several main topics, including:

  • International Law and Human Rights
  • Global Peace and Security Dynamics
  • European and International Law Studies
  • Torture, Ethics, and Law
  • International Law and Aviation
  • Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
  • Human Rights and Development

Recent papers authored by William A. Schabas include:

  • Genocide and Ukraine, 2022, Journal of International Criminal Justice
  • Codifying the human right to science, 2023, The International Journal of Human Rights
  • La Charte canadienne des droits et libertés et le droit international: les enseignements de la Cour suprême du Canada dans les affaires Keegstra, Andrews et Taylor, 2023, Revue québécoise de droit international
  • LE TRIBUNAL SPÉCIAL POUR LE LIBAN FAIT-IL PARTIE DE LA CATÉGORIE DE " CERTAINES JURIDICTIONS PÉNALES INTERNATIONALES "?, 2020, Revue québécoise de droit international
  • In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey by Payam Akhavan, 2021, Human Rights Quarterly

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Daniel Turp
  • Joseph Powderly

The scientist has contributed to multiple publication venues, most prominently:

  • Revue québécoise de droit international (9 publications)
  • Journal of International Criminal Justice
  • The International Journal of Human Rights
  • Human Rights Quarterly
  • Diplomatic History

Their book publications comprise titles issued by Cambridge University Press and Edward Elgar Publishing Limited eBooks. Notable books include:

  • An Introduction to the International Criminal Court, 2020
  • Genocide in International Law, 2025
  • The International Court of Justice, 2020

William A. Schabas has received recognition in the form of awards such as the Gold Medal from the Royal Irish Academy in 2011 for social sciences and was made a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2007.

Best Publications

  • An Introduction to the International Criminal Court

    William A. Schabas

  • Genocide in International Law: The Crimes of Crimes

    William A. Schabas

  • The International Criminal Court: A Commentary on the Rome Statute

    William A. Schabas

  • The UN International Criminal Tribunals: The Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone

    William A. Schabas

  • The European Convention on Human Rights: A Commentary

    William A. Schabas

  • The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law

    William A. Schabas

  • Genocide trials and gacaca courts

    William A. Schabas

  • Prosecutorial Discretion v. Judicial Activism at the International Criminal Court

    William A. Schabas

  • Sentencing by International Tribunals: A Human Rights Approach

    William A. Schabas

  • Unimaginable Atrocities: Justice, Politics, and Rights at the War Crimes Tribunals

    William A. Schabas

  • State policy as an element of international crimes

    William A. Schabas

  • United States Hostility to the International Criminal Court: It’s All About the Security Council

    William A. Schabas

  • Invalid Reservations to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Is the United States Still a Party?

    William A. Schabas

  • Should active recruitment of health workers from sub-Saharan Africa be viewed as a crime?

    Edward J Mills;William A Schabas;Jimmy Volmink;Roderick Walker

  • The Relationship Between Truth Commissions and International Courts: The Case of Sierra Leone

    William A. Schabas

  • Justice, democracy, and impunity in post-genocide Rwanda: Searching for solutions to impossible problems

    William A. Schabas

  • Genocide in International Law

    William A. Schabas

  • Hate Speech in Rwanda: The Road to Genocide

    William A. Schabas

  • Reservations to the convention on the rights of the child

    William A. Schabas

  • The European Convention on Human Rights

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  • The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law: Table of cases

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  • An introduction to the International Criminal Court, sixth edition

    William A. Schabas

  • International criminal law

    William A. Schabas

Frequent Co-Authors

Carsten Stahn
Carsten Stahn Leiden University
Pedro Cahn
Pedro Cahn University of Buenos Aires
Julio S. G. Montaner
Julio S. G. Montaner University of British Columbia

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