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Darryl Robinson
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Teaching Subjects
- International Law
- International Criminal Law
- International Human Rights Law
- Criminal Law
Profile
Darryl Robinson was a Hauser Scholar at New York University School of Law (LL.M International Legal Studies), where he received the Jerome Lipper Award for outstanding achievement in international law. Prior to that, he was a President's Scholar at the University of Western Ontario (UWO) and Gold Medalist at the UWO Faculty of Law.
He articled at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt in Toronto and clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada for Justice John Major.
He served as a Legal Officer at Foreign Affairs Canada from 1997-2004, providing legal advice and engaging in international negotiations concerning international human rights, humanitarian and criminal law. His work in the creation of the International Criminal Court and in the development of Canada's new war crimes legislation earned him a Minister's Citation and a Minister's Award for Foreign Policy Excellence.
He joined the International Criminal Court as an adviser to the Chief Prosecutor, from 2004 to 2006, helping to shape the first policies and strategies of the new institution. He was also involved in litigation, providing legal advice, negotiating cooperation agreements with the UN, Interpol and others, and strengthening external relations.
From 2006 to 2008, he was a Fellow, Adjunct Professor and Director of the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He was involved in an intervention at the Supreme Court of Canada in the Omar Khadr case, research for the Air India inquiry, and bringing a case to the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of a community of Roma who were expelled from their homes.
He joined Queen's University Faculty of Law in July 2008.
Recent Professional Achievements
- SSHRC research development grant for a project developing a cosmopolitan liberal account of international criminal law (2012-2014)
- SSHRC research grant, for a project with three other Canadian law professors, to observe and assess the ICC Review Conference negotiations in Uganda (2010-2012)
- BLG research fellowship to examine contradictions of international criminal law (2010-11)
- Invited to serve on the editorial boards of the Criminal Law Forum and the Transitional Justice Review (2011)
- Expert, Genocide Curriculum Review Committee: Reviewed the various objections and controversies surrounding the Toronto District School Board's course on genocide in the 20th century (2008).
- Rapporteur, Transitional Justice in Fragile States: Facilitated a roundtable of experts on this topic and prepared a report for the Department of Foreign Affairs on lessons learned and best practices for transitional justice in fragile states (2008).
Current Research
Professor Robinson's current research seeks to expose and explore some of the subtle contradictions currently embedded within international criminal law. One vein of this work is to examine the assumptions and methods of reasoning that culminate in contradictions and permit them to go unnoticed. A second vein is to attempt to resolve or reduce those contradictions by searching for a more coherent philosophical account for criminal law in internationalized contexts of mass atrocity.
Selected Publications
Books
- An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure, 2nd Edition (Cambridge University Press, 2010) (with Robert Cryer, Håkan Friman and Elizabeth Wilmshurst)
- The International Criminal Court: Elements of Crimes and Rules of Procedure (Transnational, 2001) (Associate Editor, with Roy Lee, Silvia Fernandez, Håkan Friman and Herman von Hebel).
Articles
- “How Command Responsibility Got So Complicated: A Culpability Contradiction, Its Obfuscation, and a Simple Solution” 13 Melbourne Journal of International Law (2012, forthcoming)
- “Three Theories of Complementarity: Charge, Sentence or Process?” 53 Harvard International Law Journal Online (2012) 165
- “Three Theories of Complementarity: Charge, Sentence or Process?” reproduced in William A. Schabas, Yvonne McDermott & Niamh Hayes, eds, Research Companion to International Criminal Law: Critical Perspectives (2012)
- “The Controversy over Territorial State Referrals and Some Reflections on ICL Discourse”, 9 Journal of International Criminal Justice (2011) 355-384
- "The Mysterious Mysteriousness of Complementarity", 21 Criminal Law Forum (2010) 67
- "The Identity Crisis of International Criminal Law", 21 Leiden Journal of International Law(2008) 925
- "Serving the Interests of Justice: Amnesties, Truth Commissions and the International Criminal Court", 14 European Journal of International Law (2003) 481
- "The Impact of the Human Rights Accountability Movement on the Law of Immunities", 40 Canadian Yearbook of International Law(2002) 151.
Book Chapters
- "The Inaction Scenario: Neglected Words and Missed Opportunities" in Carsten Stahn and Mohamed El Zeidy, eds, The International Criminal Court and Complementarity: From Theory to Practice(Cambridge University Press 2010)
- "The Two Liberalisms of International Criminal Law" in Carsten Stahn and Larissa van den Herik, Future Perspectives on International Criminal Justice,(Cambridge University Press 2009)
- "The Rome Statute and its Impact on National Laws", in Antonio Cassese et al., eds., The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2002) 184
- "Reaching Agreement at the Rome Conference" in Antonio Cassese et al., eds., ibid, 67 (with Philippe Kirsch)
- "Reflections on the Elements of Crimes" in Roy S. Lee et al, eds., International Criminal Court: Elements of Crimes and Rules of Procedure (2001) 219 (with Herman von Hebel)
- "The Evolution of International Humanitarian Law" in Robert McRae and Don Hubert, eds., Human Security and the New Diplomacy: Protecting People, Promoting Peace (McGill Queens University Press, 2000) 161 (with Valerie Oosterveld).
Book Reviews
- "Humanizing Our Global Order: Essays In Honour Of Ivan Head", 43 Osgoode Hall Law Journal (2005) 335.