Lyal S. Sunga
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Professor Lyal S. Sunga, Senior Lecturer / Director of Research, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund, Sweden, is a specialist on international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law.
Sunga holds a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton, a Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School, a Master of Laws in International Human Rights Law from Essex and a Ph.D. in International Law (Graduate Institute of International Studies). Before joining the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, he taught at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and served as Director of the Master of Laws Programme in Human Rights (2001–2005). He has also given university courses, lectures or training in around 30 countries. He has published widely in various scholarly journals and has authored two books on international criminal law.
From 1994 to 2001, Sunga worked for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, first to assist in the investigation of facts and responsibilities relating to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda for the UN Security Council's Commission of Experts on Rwanda, to draft the Commission's report recommending the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and then on the establishment of the UN Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda and on human rights issues relating to the establishment of the International Criminal Court, terrorism, redress for violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, impunity, the death penalty, human rights defenders and the administration of justice.
Published works
- Lyal S. Sunga, Individual Responsibility in International Law for Serious Human Rights Violations, Nijhoff (1992) (ISBN 0792314530)
- Lyal S. Sunga, The Emerging System of International Criminal Law: Developments in Codification and Implementation , Kluwer (1997) (ISBN 9041104720)
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