Dr. Damien Scalia

Research Fellow

Damien Scalia is currently a Research Fellow at the Academy. His main research areas are related to legacy of international criminal justice, perception of accused people and sentences in international criminal justice. He also teaches international humanitarian law and international criminal law in different other universities.

Damien Scalia did a LL.M. at the Centre universitaire de droit international humanitaire (now Geneva Academy for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights) and his PhD thesis on penalties in international criminal law supervised by the Universities of Paris X -Nanterre and Geneva. He is now undertaking a post doctorate research on the execution of sentences pronounced by  international criminal courts (research started at the Irish Center for Human Rights - Galway, Ireland - followed at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict - UK - and which will be finalised  at Université catholique de Louvain - Belgium). He has also undertaken research on the position given to victims in legal procedures within international criminal jurisdictions. This research has given place to the publication of articles, notably in the International Review of the Red-Cross. He also conducted research related to the suppression of acts of torture and other forms of degrading treatment.

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Publications (main)

• SCALIA D., Le droit international pénal à l’épreuve de la légalité des peines, Bruxelles, Bruylant, forthcoming in 2011.
   
• CASSESE A., SCALIA D. et THALMANN V. Les grands arrêts du droit international pénal général, Paris, Dalloz, 2010.
   
• SCALIA D., Long-term sentences in international criminal law: respecting the criteria determined by the ECHR, in Journal of International criminal justice, May 2011, forthcoming.
   
• SCALIA D., A few thoughts on guaranties inherent to the rule of law as applied to sanctions and the prosecution and punishment of war crimes, in International Review of Red Cross, n° 870, pp. 343-357.
   
• SCALIA D., «Commentary» of Articles 23, 24, 76, 77, 78 et 80 of International Criminal Court Statute, in SUR S. et DECAUX E., Commentaire du Statut de la Cour pénale internationale, Article par article, Paris, Pédone, forthcoming in 2011.