Joe Powderly
Associate professor
- Name
- J.C. Powderly
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9366
- j.c.powderly@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-9113-217X
Dr. Joseph Powderly joined the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies as an Assistant Professor of Public International Law in March 2011, and was appointed Associate Professor in September 2018. He is Director of the Grotius PhD Track Programme and lectures in international criminal law, international criminal litigation, and public international law at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research focuses in particular on the judicial function in an international criminal law context, but also looks more broadly at issues relevant to international criminal justice, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and cultural heritage law.
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Joe received his PhD in international criminal law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI, Galway, in 2017. His Ph.D., which was funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, looked at the international judicial function, and the role of judicial interpretative creativity in the progressive development of international criminal law. In addition, he holds a B.A. (English and Legal Science, NUIG, 2004), an LL.B. (NUIG, 2005), and an LL.M. in International Human Rights Law (NUIG, 2006).
Prior to joining the Grotius Centre he was a Research Fellow in International Criminal and Humanitarian Law at the TMC Asser Institute, The Hague (2010-2011). Between September 2008 and January 2010, he was a Doctoral Fellow/Researcher at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, where he worked, among other projects, on a Irish Government-funded investigation and report into the possible perpetration of crimes against humanity against the Rohingya people of North Rakhine State, Burma/Myanmar. This report was launched by the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs in June 2010.
He has published widely in the area of international criminal law, and international human rights law. He is the author of over 80 case-reports for the Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the Leiden Journal of International Law and Criminal Law Forum, as well as an editor of the blog, PhD Studies in Human Rights.
Associate professor
- Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Instituut voor Publiekrecht
- Grotius Centre for Intern Legal Studies
- Strecker A. & Powderly J.C. (Eds.) (2023), Heritage destruction, human rights and international law. Leiden: Brill/Nijhoff.
- Strecker A. & Powderly J.C. (2023), Introduction: heritage destruction, human rights and international law in times of conflict and in peace. In: Strecker A. & Powderly J.C. (Eds.), Heritage destruction, human rights and international law. Leiden: Brill/Nijhoff. 1-18.
- Powderly J.C. & Strecker A. (2023), Afterword: heritage destruction and the War on Ukraine. In: Strecker A. & Powderly J.C. (Eds.), Heritage destruction, human rights and international law. Leiden: Brill/Nijhoff. 423-454.
- Powderly J.C. & Schabas W.A. (2023), ‘A plea of humanity to law’: In Memoriam for Benjamin Berell Ferencz (1920–2023), Leiden Journal of International Law 36(4): 819-831.
- Powderly J.C. (2023), In praise of commentaries in the age of the neoliberal academy, Criminal Law Forum 34(4): 465-476.
- Ambos K., Braga da Silva R., Hayes N., Powderly J.C., Stahn C. & Herik L.J. van den (2022), Article 7: crimes against humanity. In: Ambos K. (Ed.), Rome statute of the international criminal court: article-by-article commentary. Munich: C.H. Beck. 135-316.
- Powderly J.C. (2022), Prosecuting heritage destruction. In: Cuno J. & Weiss T.G. (Eds.) Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities. Los Angeles: Getty Publications. 430-447.
- Powderly J.C. & Hayes N. (2022), Article 7(1)(g): "Rape...or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity". In: Ambos K. (Ed.), Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: Article-by-Article Commentary. München: Hart Beck Nomos. 199-222.
- Powderly J.C. & Hayes N. (2022), Article 7(1)(h): "Persecution". In: Ambos K. (Ed.), Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: Article-by-Article Commentary. München: Hart Beck Nomos. 222-235.
- Powderly J.C. & Hayes N. (2022), Article 7(2)(f): "Forced Pregnancy". In: Ambos K. (Ed.), Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: Article-by-Article Commentary. München: Hart Beck Nomos.
- Powderly J.C. & Hayes N. (2022), Article 7(2)(g): "Persecution". In: Ambos K. (Ed.), Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: Article-by-Article Commentary. München: Hart Beck Nomos. 293-301.
- Powderly J.C. & Hayes N. (2022), Article 7(3): "Definition of Gender". In: Ambos K. (Ed.), Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: Article-by-Article Commentary. München: Hart Beck Nomos.
- Powderly J.C. (2020), Judges and the Making of International Criminal Law. Leiden Studies on the Frontiers of International Law no. 7. Leiden/Boston: Brill/Nijhoff.
- Powderly J.C. & Braga da Silva R. (2020), Cultural Heritage and Women. In: Francioni F. & Vrdoljak A.F. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Cultural Heritage Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 431-458.
- Jacobs D. & Powderly J. (2019), On the Impact of Online Commentary in International Criminal Law: A Vain Pursuit of a Socratic Ideal?, Leiden Journal of International Law 32(4): 615-623.
- Powderly J. (10 December 2019), Does "the Lady Doth Protest" Mark the Beginning of Myanmar's Reckoning?. JusticeInfo. [blog entry].
- Powderly J.C. (2019), International criminal justice in an age of perpetual crisis, Leiden Journal of International Law 32(1): 1-11.
- Powderly J.C. & Hayes N. (26 June 2018), The Bemba Appeal: A Fragmented Appeals Chamber Destablises the Law and Practice of the ICC. PhD Studies in Human Rights. [blog entry].
- Powderly J.C. (2018), Prosecutor v. Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo: Judgment on the Appeal of Mr. Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo against Trial Chamber III's “Judgment Pursuant to Article 74 of the Statute” (Int'l Crim. Ct.), International Legal Materials 57(6): 1031-1079.
- Powderly J.C. & Chylinski J. (2016), The women judges: leading the line in the development of international law. In: Schabas W.A. & Murphy S. (Eds.), Research Handbook on International Courts and Tribunals. Research Handbooks in International Law. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 143-180.
- Powderly J.C. (2016), Article 7(2)(f): “Forced pregnancy”. In: Triffterer O. & Ambos K. (Eds.), Commentary on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Baden-Baden: CH Beck. 274-275.
- Powderly J.C. & Hayes N. (2016), Article 7(3): “Definitions of Gender”. In: Triffterer O. & Ambos K. (Eds.), Commentary on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Baden-Baden: CH Beck. 292-294.
- Powderly J.C. & Hayes N. (2016), Article 7(1)(g): “Rape…or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity". In: Triffterer O. & Ambos K. (Eds.), Commentary on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Baden-Baden: CH Beck. 206-219.
- Powderly J.C. & Hayes N. (2016), Article 7(1)(h): “Persecution”. In: Triffterer O. & Ambos K. (Eds.), Commentary on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Baden-Baden: CH Beck. 219-226.
- Powderly J.C. (2016), Article 7(2)(g): “Persecution”. In: Triffterer O. & Ambos K. (Eds.), Commentary on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Baden-Baden: CH Beck. 275-282.
- Powderly J.C. (2015), The Rome Statute and the Attempted Corseting of the Interpretative Judicial Function: Reflections on Sources of Law and Interpretative Technique. In: Stahn C. (Ed.), The Law and Practice of the International Criminal Court. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 444 - 498.
- Powderly J.C. (2013), Distinguishing Creativity from Activism: International Criminal Law and the “Legitimacy” of Judicial Development of the Law. In: Schabas W.A. Hayes N. McDermott Y. (Ed.), The Ashgate Research Companion to International Criminal Law. London: Ashgate. 223-250.
- Powderly J.C. (2012), Commentary: Prosecutor v. Limaj et al. In: Klip A. Sluiter G. (Ed.), Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals – Volume XXVIII: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, 2005-2006. Antwerp: Intersentia. 397-412.
- Powderly J.C. & Fairlie M. (2011), Complementarity and Burden Allocation. In: Stahn C. Al Zeidy M. (Ed.), The International Criminal Court and Complementarity: From Theory to Practice: Oxford University Press. 642-684.
- Powderly J.C. (2011), Introductory Observations on the STL Appeals Chamber Decision: Context and Critical Remarks, Criminal Law Forum 22: 347 - 363.
- Powderly J.C. (2010), The Eichmann, Barbie and Finta Trials. In: Bernaz N. Schabas W.A. (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook on International Criminal Law: Routledge. 33-50.
- Powderly J.C. (2010), Judicial Interpretation at the Ad Hoc Tribunals: Method from Chaos?. In: Powderly J.C. Darcy S. (Ed.), Judicial Creativity at the International Criminal Tribunals. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 17-44.
- Powderly J.C. & Darcy S. (Eds.) (2010), Judicial Creativity at the International Criminal Tribunals. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Powderly J.C., Schabas W.A. & Prud'homme N. (2010), Crimes Against Humanity in Western Burma: The Situation of the Rohingyas. Galway: Irish Centre for Human Rights/ Irish Department of Foreign Affairs.