Lyal S. Sunga

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 35 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.

From September to December 2007, Dr. Sunga took leave from the Raoul Wallenberg Institute to act as Geneva-based Coordinator of the UN Human Rights Council's Group of Experts on Darfur, mandated to assess the Government of the Sudan's implementation of UN recommendations concerning serious violations of human rights and humanitarian law committed during the war in Darfur.

Published works

Books

* The Emerging System of International Criminal Law: Developments in Codification and Implementation, Kluwer (1997) 508 p.
* Individual Responsibility in International Law for Serious Human Rights Violations, Nijhoff (1992) 252 p.

Book Sections

* The Role of Humanitarian Intervention in International Peace and Security: Guarantee or Threat? Int’l Progress Organization & Google Books (2006) 41-79.
* Dilemmas of NGO Involvement in Coalition-Occupied Iraq, in Bell and Coicaud, Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations, United Nations University (2006) 99-116.
* NGO Involvement in International Human Rights Monitoring, in International Human Rights Law and Non-Governmental Organizations, Bruylant (2005) 41-69.
* International Criminal Law Protection of Minority Rights, in Skurbaty (ed), Beyond a One-Dimensional State: An Emerging Right to Autonomy? Brill (2004).
* Independence and Fairness of the ICC, in Study on Major Issues Relating to the International Criminal Court (People’s Court Press) (2003) 24-30 (in Putonghua).
* US Anti-Terrorism Policy and Asia’s Options, in Johannen, Smith and Gomez, (eds.) September 11 & Political Freedoms: Asian Perspectives (Select) (2002) 242-264.
* Full Respect for the Rights of Suspect, Accused and Convict: from Nuremberg and Tokyo to the ICC, in Henzelin and Roth (eds), Le droit pénal à l’épreuve de l’internationalisation, (Bruylant) (2002) 217-239.
* The Special Procedures of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights: Should They Be Scrapped?, in Alfredsson (ed), International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms (Kluwer) (2001) 231-275.
* A Competência Ratione Materiae da Corte Internacional Criminal: Arts. 5 a 10 Do Estatuto de Roma, in Ambos and Choukr (eds.) Tribunal Penal Internacional (Editora RT) (2000) 191 - 219 (in Portuguese).
* La Jurisdicción ratione materiae de la Corte Penal Internacional (parte II, arts. 5° a 10°), in Ambos (eds.) El Estatuto de Roma: de la Corte Penal Internacional (Universidad externado de Colombia) (1999) 233-268 (in Spanish).

Law Journal Articles

* The Kordic and Cerkez Trial Chamber Judgment: A Comment on the Main Legal Issues 7 Series of Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals (2004) 490-511.
* The International Community’s Recognition of Certain Acts as ‘Crimes under International Law’, International Review of Penal Law (Erès) Proceedings of the International Conference held in Siracusa, Italy, 28 November - 3 December 2002, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of ISISC (2004) 303-315.
* Can International Humanitarian Law Play an Effective Role in Occupied Iraq? 3 Indian Society of International Law Yearbook of International Humanitarian and Refugee Law (2003) 1-21.
* Musings on ‘The Future of International Criminal Justice’, (Review Article) 11(2) Asia Pacific Law Review (2003) 217-232.
* Will the International Criminal Court be Fair and Impartial?, 2 (1) Article 2 (February 2003) 9-20.
* The Attitude of Asian Countries Towards the International Criminal Court, 2 Indian Society of International Law Yearbook of International Humanitarian and Refugee Law (2002) 18-57.
* The United Nations System for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights with Special Reference to South Korea and the New National Human Rights Commission, 4 Sang Saeng (Summer 2002) 45-50.
* The Celebici Case: A Comment on the Main Legal Issues in the ICTY’s Trial Chamber Judgement, 13 Leiden Journal of International Law (2000) 105-138.
* The Crimes within the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court: (Part II, Articles 5 - 10), 6/4 European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (1998) 377-399.
* The First Indictments of the ICTR, 18 Human Rights Law Journal (1997) 329-340.
* The Comm’n of Experts on Rwanda and Creation of the ICTR 16 Human Rights Law Journal (1995) 121-124.

References

http://www.rwi.lu.se/institute/staff/ls.shtml