Dr. Stuart Maslen

Research Fellow

Stuart Casey-Maslen is currently a Research Fellow at the Academy. His main research areas concern international law and armed non-state actors, legal developments regarding the negotiation of a future Arms Trade Treaty, the application of international human rights law to weapons, and the RULAC Project on the implementation of the Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts. He also serves as the Mine Action Editor of Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor for Norwegian People’s Aid.

Stuart holds a Ph.D in International Humanitarian Law from the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, and an LL.M in International Human Rights Law from Essex University in Colchester, United Kingdom. He was a member of the UNICEF delegation to the First Review Conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons in 1995–1996 and a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation to the Oslo Diplomatic Conference in 1997 that adopted the 1997 Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention.

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Publications

• “The International Law Applicable to Armed Non State Actors in Afghanistan” (with Annyssa Bellal and Gilles Giacca), International Review of the Red Cross, No. 881, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2011, pp. 1–33.
• “Towards engagement, compliance and accountability” (with Annyssa Bellal and Gilles Giacca), Forced Migration Review, Issue 37, March 2011, pp. 4–7.
• The Convention on Cluster Munitions: A Commentary, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, October 2010 (co-editor with Gro Nystuen).
• A Guide to Ammunition Storage, Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD), Geneva, November 2008.
• A Guide to Cluster Munitions, GICHD, Geneva, November 2007.Mine Action After Diana, Progress in the Struggle against Landmines, Landmine Action/Pluto Press, London, UK, May 2004.
• A Commentary of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, March 2004.
• Anti-Personnel Mines on the Battlefield under Humanitarian Law: A View from the Vanishing Point, Intersentia Publishers, Brussels, September 2001.
• The Banning of Anti-Personnel Landmines: The Work of the International Committee of the Red Cross 1955–1999, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, October 2000. (Co-editor with Louis Maresca).

Forthcoming publications

• ‘Enhancing respect for international law by armed non state actors’ (with Annyssa Bellal), Göttingen Journal of international law, forthcoming (April 2011).
• “L’interdiction des bombes à sous-munitions en droit international humanitaire”, (with Annyssa Bellal), in Chetail (ed.), V. Défis et mutations du droit des conflits armés, Bruylant, Brussels, forthcoming, 2011.