Ioannis Kalpouzos
LLB (Athens), LLM, PhD (Nottingham)
Tel: +44 (0)20 70404122
Ioannis joined The City Law School in August 2011. Previously Ioannis was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Exeter (Cornwall Campus) as well as a PhD candidate (and teaching assistant) at the University of Nottingham. He is a qualified advocate at the Athens Bar Association, in Greece.
In December 2010 Ioannis successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Nottingham. The thesis, accepted with no corrections, is entitled: The Applicability of International Law to Armed Conflicts Involving Non-State Armed Groups: Between Status and Humanitarian Protection. It looks at the development of the rationales for the applicability of the law of armed conflict (or international humanitarian law) to situations of violence that involve non-state armed groups. It enquires whether the system has moved from a rationale of applicability based on the respective status of group entities to one based on the protection of individuals. It concludes that this is indeed the case, with important caveats.
Ioannis research focuses on the areas of the Law of Armed Conflict and International Criminal Law but also includes various aspects of General Public International Law.
Publications & Conferences
- Book Review: 'David Kennedy, Of War and Law' (2008) 12 Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 485-492.
- Casenote: International Court of Justice: 'Case Concerning Certain Questions of Assistance in Criminal Matters' (Djibouti v. France)' (2010) 59 International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 193-205 (with Robert Cryer)
- 'The Application of the Threshold for War Crimes by the International Criminal Court' (in development).
- 'Decolonisation and the jus in bello: From form to substance?' paper presented at the Second Postgraduate Colloquium held at SOAS January 2009.
- Libya and the move from protests to armed conflict in international law. (City Law School, November 2011)
Current Teaching
- Constitutional & Administrative Law (LLB)
- International Criminal Law (LLB, convenor)
PhD Supervision
Ioannis welcomes approaches for supervision from prospective PhD students in the area of public international law, and especially in the areas of the law of armed conflict, and international criminal law.