Giovanni Chiarini is an Assistant Professor of Law at Alfaisal University College of Law & International Relations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where he teaches International Criminal Law. He is also an International Fellow (2022-2024) of the National Institute of Military Justice in Washington, DC (USA), and a Criminal Defense Attorney licensed to practice at international criminal tribunals. He is admitted to the list of the International Criminal Court (ICC) assistants-to-counsel and eligible associate counsel; the list of Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC - EULEX) Specialist Co-Counsel and Victims’ Co-Counsel; and the list of Human Rights Courts, including the roster of counsel for the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. He previously carried out legal consultancy for the United Nations (UNAKRT) regarding the Cambodian Genocide and the Khmer Rouge Trials held at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC).
Before joining Alfaisal University, he taught International Criminal Law as a lecturer at the University of Huddersfield Law School (UK) and worked as a scholar-in-residence at TTU Texas Tech University School of Law, Centre for Military Law & Policy (USA). He has been endorsed by the British Academy as a ‘UK Global Talent’ with ‘Exceptional Promise in the field of Law’ and has been featured as a keynote speaker at several conferences and guest lectures in various institutions, such as the University of California at Berkeley, American Washington University College of Law, Georgetown University in Washington DC, Miami Dade College, Texas University, Mississippi College School of Law, and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He was also appointed as a legal expert for the NIMJ Amicus Curiae before the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (Ongwen Case).
He has published works on proceedings related to the admission of guilt in the Rome Statute, the international crime of Ecocide, the war in Ukraine, the Iraq/UK case before the ICC, the so-called war on drugs in the Philippines, and the clash between common law and civil law legal traditions that characterize international criminal procedure. He recently published a book entitled The Evolution of International Criminal Procedure: From Nuremberg and Tokyo to the International Criminal Court. Released by Routledge (2024, London – New York), the book features a preface by former Vice President of the International Criminal Court, Cuno J. Tarfusser, who remarked, “Chiarini’s impressive monograph fills the gaps of procedural doctrine, paving the way for a deeper understanding of the evolution of international criminal procedure and for the affirmation of international criminal procedure as an autonomous field of study.”
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
Chiarini was a visiting researcher at the following universities: Institute of International Peace and Security Law, Universität zu Köln, Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät (Germany); Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, University College Cork (Ireland); Laboratoire de Droit International et Européen, Université Côte d'Azur (France); Centre for International and Global Law, University of Edinburgh (Scotland); Institut de Recherche en Droit International et Européen de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France); and the Centre for Critical Legal Studies, University of Warwick (England).
He participated in the “Comparative Criminal Judgment Project” led by Durham University (UK) and collaborated in the International Disaster Law Project, led by University College Cork in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
His scholarship focuses on the following subject matters and legal fields: International Criminal Law (war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, crime of aggression); the procedure of the International Criminal Court; the procedure of the so-called Hybrid Courts and the United Nations Tribunals; the procedure of the International Court of Justice; International Law of the Sea; and the prevention and repression of piracy and armed robbery at sea.
AWARDS & MEMBERSHIPS
Chiarini was awarded the ‘Gold Medal for the Best Overall Article’ by the Cork Law Review (Arthur Cox Prize); the prize for the best PhD candidate publication by the American Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS); the prize for the best article on ecocide and mafia-organized crimes by the Center for Studies in European and International Affairs (CSEIA); and the award for the best LLM dissertation by the University of Parma.
He is a member of: the International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA - The Hague), where he has been elected to the Training Committee and Amicus Curiae Committee (2023) and for the Legal Advisory Committee and the Amicus Curiae Committee (2024-2025); the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War (ISMLLW - Brussels); and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS - Maryland).
He has served as a member of the panel of evaluation for the Grotius Centre for International Law, Leiden University, at the ICC moot court competition; as a judge for the Law on the Bosphorus moot court competition, Istanbul University; and as a judge at the ICC IBA International Criminal Court moot court in The Hague.
PRESENTATIONS
The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference 2024 - From Words to Action: Rethinking Justice in a Globalised World, conference speaker, 29th May 2024
Universität Bayreuth, Germany, Chair of African Legal Studies, The Art of Publishing: Deconstructing the Myth, guest lecture, 27th June 2024
International Law Society MC Law USA, International Criminal Law and International Criminal Lawyers, guest lecture, 4th October June 2024
UCA Pontificia Universidad Catòlica Argentina, Exploring the fundamental of international criminal justice in theory and practice, guest lecture, 15th May 2024
University of Sant’Anna in Pisa, The supranational concept of vulnerability and its applications in domestic criminal systems, 7th June 2024
Jinda Global University, Confronting Global Conflicts and the Rule of Law - A Focus on Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas, conference speaker, 3rd May 2024
Sciences Po University, Paris, Ecocide, International Criminal Court procedural issues and the War in Ukraine, Masterclass for “Environnementon” program, Menton Campus, 22nd April 2024
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Climate Change and International Law at a Crossroad, conference speaker at the panel “Is Ecocide a viable international crime?”, 28th and 29th September, 2023
Georgetown University, Ecocide and crimes against the environment in the Russo-Ukrainian War, guest lecturer sponsored by the Georgetown Center on National Security, September 26th, 2023
Centre for Military Law and Policy at Texas Tech University, International Criminal Law Symposium, Texas Tech Law Review, conference speaker, 14th April 2023
Italian Supreme Court of Cassation, Environmental Protection and the Future of International Criminal Justice, keynote speaker, introduced by the President of the Italian Supreme Court and the Military Attorney General
American University Washington College of Law, The evolution of International Criminal Procedure: from Genocide to Ecocide, A Conversation with Giovanni Chiarini, guest lecturer, 14th February, 2023
University of California, Berkeley, Riesenfeld Symposium, Mass Atrocities in the 21st Century, conference speaker at the panel “How mass atrocities are litigated”, 14th March, 2023
University of Teramo, Ecocide and Climate Change, conference speaker, 6th October, 2023
National Institute of Military Justice in Washington DC, The Cavalese Cable Car Disaster, Lessons in Criminal Law and International Law, speaker and moderator, 24th March, 2023
University of Padua, The evolution of International Criminal Justice, keynote speaker for the 800 years of the University of Padua, 18th January 2023
International University of Sarajevo, “Ecocide: from the Vietnam War to International Jurisdiction? Procedural Issues In-Between Environmental Science and Law”, guest lecturer, 5th January 2022
University of Warwick, Ecocide as a crime under international customary law, guest lecture, 7th March 2022
American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan and Bard College of New York, Climate Change Law and Litigation, international workshop, speaker, March 29th, 2022
The Christ University in Bangalore, International Military Tribunals’ Legacy on International Criminal Procedure: Towards a Hybrid Legal System, guest lecturer, 11th April, 2022
University of Foggia, International Crimes in the War in Ukraine: between national and international jurisdictions, guest lecturer, 13th April 2022
UCPI Criminal Law Association, International Criminal Justice: Origins, Evolution and Procedural aspects of The Hague’s Tribunals, guest speaker with Prof. Gregory S. Gordon, 28th April 2022
Mississippi College School of Law, Environmental War Crimes and Comparative Criminal Procedure, guest lecture, 21st November 2022
Miami Dade College Law Center, From the Vietnam War to The Hague: International Criminal Law and Environmental Protection, guest speaker, 16th November, 2022
University of Insubria: The Ukraine and the Russian Federation: a roundtable on the war in Ukraine in light of International Law and European Union Law, guest speaker, 7th April 2022
The University of Copenhagen & New York University, IV TRAMEREN International Conference of the Transatlantic Marine Environment Research Network, conference speaker, 1st June 2022
Istanbul University, International Criminal Law with the perspective of Human Rights, summer school speaker, 10th September 2022
University of Indonesia, Ecocide and Mass Environmental Destruction: United Nations Policies and the role of International Criminal Justice, guest lecturer, 23rd November, 2022
University of Bari, Ecocide: origins, perspectives ,and issues of international criminal procedure, guest lecture, 14th December 2022
Bahçeşehir Cyprus Üniversitesi, International Criminal Justice and Mass Environmental Destruction, guest lecture, 21st December 2022
University College Cork, Complementarity and Genocide Jurisdiction in the ICC, guest lecturer, 11th November 2022
Law Society of Turin, Restorative Justice in the experience of International Criminal Tribunals, guest speaker, 29th June 2022
University of Pisa, From Nuremberg to The Hague: Peace and International Criminal Justice, guest lecture, 15th April 2021
Pontificia Universidad Catòlica Argentina, Argentinian Legal Culture and International Criminal Court: the Origins of Article 65 of the Rome Statute, guest lecture, 13th May 2021
Ontario TRIOS Legal College, The Evolution of International Criminal Procedure and the Canadian contribution to the ICC Rome Statute, guest lecture, 25th May 2021
Tripura University, Impact of Covid-19 on Legal Education and Legal Research, distinguished speaker, 8th August, 2021
University of Ljubljana, Ecocide and ICC Admissibility Issues, guest lecturer, 17th October 2021
KIIT Law School, International Law Society, The ICC Jurisprudence in the cases of Iraq and The Philippines, keynote speaker, 30th October 2021
American Bar Association, Issues of the ICC preliminary examination in the Philippines, guest speaker, 23rdNovember, 2021
European Parliament, Derechos Humanos y la Lucha a la Impunidad, conference speaker, EU Parliament Office in Milan,14th January, 2020
UCA Facultad Teresa de Avila, La Emergencia del Covid19 y su impacto juridico, guest lecture, 8th March 2020
LIST OF SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- The Evolution of International Criminal Procedure: from Nuremberg and Tokyo to the International Criminal Court, (280 pages) Routledge (Routledge Studies in Law, Rights and Justice), June 2024, Prefaced by the former International Criminal Court Vice President Hons Cuno Jakob Tarfusser
- Ecocide In War and Peace: From the Air Pollution Consequences of the War in Ukraine to Japan’s Disposal of Fukushima Water into the Ocean, Case Western Reserve International Law Journal, Vol. 56 (2024), 239-270
- Without a Declaration of Acceptance of Jurisdiction and Ratification: Procedural Issues of the International Criminal Court's Investigation into the Russo-Ukrainian War, Texas Tech Law Review Vol. 56 (2023), 171-184 co-author Justice Cuno Jakob Tarfusser, former Vice President of the International Criminal Court
- ICC seek Arrest of Israeli and Hamas Leaders. What happens next?, Interview for the ‘Middle East Eye’, London, 20 May 2024
- International Criminal Law, International Courts, and Judicial Affairs, American Bar Association (ABA) Year in Review, 2021 (2022), 56, 193-226, co-author
- Nigeria: a 12-Year Preliminary Examination. Is The Time Ripe for the ICC Prosecutor to Tackle Boko Haram's Criminals?, June 20, 2022, Cork Online Law Review – co-author Izuchuwu Temilade
- The evolution of negotiated justice and plea agreement in international criminal procedure, Rassegna di GIustizia Militare, Italian (Journal of Military Justice of the Italian Supreme Court), November 13, 2023
- Mental Health and Criminal Justice in the Italian legal framework, section for the Professor Bratina’s book “Forensic Mental Health: Framing Integrated Solutions”, book chapter, Routledge, 2021
- The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Navigating Aggression’s Fragmented Justice Landscape, Cambridge International Law Journal blog, April 04, 2022
- 原文标题：俄罗斯对乌克兰的入侵：在侵略的碎片化司法景色中航行 原文作者：格雷戈里·戈登，乔瓦尼·基亚里尼 翻译：陈澍桐, The Chinese Initiative for International Law, July 2022 – translation of CILJ blog post
- Ecocide: From the Vietnam War to International Criminal Jurisdiction? Procedural Issues In-Between Environmental Science, Climate Change, And Law, Cork Online Law Review, March 31, 2022
- 我们可以重返法律吗？反思国际刑事法院对程序规则的司法解释——在巴博-古德案(Gbagbo-Blé Goude)上诉判决后与塔弗瑟尔(Tarfusser)法官的对话, The Chinese Initiative for International Law, June 03, 2021 – translation of OJ blog post
- A Trailblazer for the Complementarity: Iraq, the UK Armed Forces, and the International Criminal Court, Cambridge International Law Journal blog, 14 August 2021
- Human Rights vs Complementarity: the Iraq war, the UK, & the International Criminal Court UCC Legal Research Papers Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, August 3, 2021
- Extra-judicial Killings in The Philippines and the So-called “War on Drugs”, Cass. Pen. Int., 12/2020, 4742-4765, Italian
- Ecocide And International Criminal Court Procedural Issues. Additional Amendments to the ‘Stop Ecocide Foundation’ Proposal UCC Legal Research Papers Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, November 16, 2021
- Can We Return to the Law, Please? Rethinking the Judicial interpretation of Procedural Rules in the ICC Opinio Juris, 13 April 2021, co-author the former ICC Vice President, Justice Cuno Jakob Tarfusser
- Negotiated Justice in the ICC: Following the Al Mahdi case, a Proposal to Enforce the Rights of the Accused (2021), 5 PKI Global Justice Journal 13
- Extra-Judicial Killings In The Philippines So-Called “War On Drugs”: Where Does It Stand Before The ICC? Cambridge International Law Journal blog, 03 March 2021
- Anatomy of the Crime of Torture, Giurisprudenza Penale, Italy, co-author A. Continiello, 2019, 1-9, ISSN 2499-846X, Italian
- Os deveres jurídicos no ordenamento constitucional italiano, Revista de Direito Brasileira, 2019, 235-241, ISSN: 2237-583X
- Giandomenico Romagnosi (1761-1835): Entre la Ley y el Proceso Penal y la filosofía del Derecho Público, Revista De Ciencia De La Legislación, Argentina, 7/2020,1-12, ISSN 2545-8833, Spanish
- Revisiting Gregory Gordon’s Groundbreaking Work “Atrocity Speech Law” as It Is Transformed from Book into Website, Book Review, PKI Global Justice Journal, 15 March 2021
- 'War on Drugs' or Crimes Against Humanity? A Procedural Appraisal of the situation in the Philippines before the International Criminal Court, Cass. Pen. Internazionale, 12/2020, pp. 4742-4765, ISSN 2499-0396, Italian
- The Proceedings on an Admission of Guilt in the International Criminal Court: a “Third Avenue” between Common Law and Civil Law, Cass. Pen. Internazionale, 12/2020, pp. 4742-4765, ISSN 2499-0396, Italian
- The Acquisition of Pre-Trial Declarations as Evidence: Observations on the Judgment 19864/19 in Light of the Jurisprudence of the ECHR, Cass. Pen. Internazionale 5/2020, pp. 2103-2118, ISSN 2499-0396
- The ruling for the remission to the Supreme Court on the notification of the “immediate judgment” to the detained accused of crime, Sistema Penale Law Journal, 2020, pp. 1-4, ISSN 2704-8098, Italian
- The partial mental illness and its impact on mens rea, between History and the recent Jurisprudence, Argomentum Journal of Law, Brasil, Vol. 21/1, 2019, pp. 419-436, ISSN 1677-809X
- The interferences of recklessness on the mitigating circumstance of provocation, Altalex, Italian, 1-15, 2019
- The procedural assessment of the judicial declaration of habitual delinquent: the case of nullity due to the lack of indictment, Altalex, Italian, 1-7, 2019
- Pietro Nuvolone’s theory on international criminal justice, Urtiga, Italian, 49-54, n. 24/2020
- The first European written Constitution: the Polish Constitution of May, 1791, Gazeta Włochy, Italian and Polish, 17-21, 2016
- The Constitutional foundation of fiscal duty and its criminal law consequences, Diritto & Diritti, Italian, 2019, 1-12, ISSN 1127-8579
- The freedom of the press in the thoughts of Pietro Nuvolone, Urtiga, Italian, 77-81, n. 25/2020
- Judging History: War Crimes, State Immunity and Fundamental Rights, book review, Italian, Criminal Justice Network, September 20, 2020
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCES
He serves as the Regional Coordinator for the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law (Routledge), a peer reviewer for The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals (Brill) and Justice Quarterly (Routledge), a member of the Board of Directors for The Dark Side of the Law (Castelvecchi), and a member of the Editorial Committee for the Journal of Military Justice (Italian Supreme Court).
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