Daqun Liu

Daqun Liu

Vice-President of the ICTY; Appeals Chamber for ICTY and ICTR
Curriculum Vitae (PDF) (125.74 KB)      
Education
M.A, Tufts University
Law Certificate, International Law College of Foreign
B.A, Beijing Foreign Language Institute

Judge Liu Daqun is a judge in the Appeals Chamber for both the ICTY and ICTR and for the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals. He was appointed as an ICTY judge by the United Nations Secretary General in 2000 and re-elected by the General Assembly in 2001 and 2004. From 2001 until 2005, Judge Liu was the Presiding Judge of Trial Chamber I presiding over several important cases. He is also a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the Institute de Droit International.

Judge Liu has enjoyed a distinguished academic career. In 1994 he was appointed a Professor of International Law at China University of Political Science and Law and a Professor at the Center of Cooperative Innovation and Judicial Civilization of that university in 2013. He regularly lectures across China and internationally on international criminal law. Amongst others, Judge Liu holds positions at the Law School of Wuhan University (since 1997) and China Foreign Affairs University(since 1998).

Expertise
Vice-President of the Appeals Chamber in the ICTY and Judge of the ICTR
Judge re-elected of the ICTY by the UNGA, (2004)
Presiding Judge of the Trial Chamber I, ICTY, (Since 2001-2005)
Judge of the ICTY appointed by the Secretary General of the UN in 2000
Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Jamaica, (1999-2000)
Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of China to the International Seabed Authority, (1999-2000)
Deputy Director-General, Treaty and Law Department of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, (1993-1999)
Director of International Law Division, Treaty and Law Department Foreign Ministry, (1991-1993)
Director of the Law of the Sea Division, Treaty and Law Department Foreign Ministry, (1988-1991)
Director of Private International Law Division, Treaty and Law Department Foreign Ministry, (1982-1988)
Working in the Chinese Embassy in Iceland, (1978—1982)
Books: 

The Law of International Organizations,  Beijing University Press, 1995; New Area of International Law, China’s Academy of Social Science Publishing House, 1995

Commentary on the Charter of  The United Nations (1999), Shanxi Educational Press, 1999

International Criminal Law, China’s Encyclopedia (2004)

Commentary on the Rome Statute on International Criminal Court, Beijing University Press, (2006)

Book Chapters: 

Chinese Humanitarian law and International Humanitarian Law, Chapter 11 of the book The Diversification and Fragmentation of International Criminal Law.2012.

Has the non-immunity of the head of state become a rule of customary international law? Chapter 4 of the book State Sovereignty and International Criminal Law,2012. Aut Dedere Aut Judicare in International law, China’s Year Book of International Law,2013.

Quality Control in Truth and Reconciliation, Chapter 5 of the book. Quality Control in Fact-Finding. 2013. Forward of the book, Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials, 2013.

Articles: 

Contribution of the Asian and African Consultative Committee to the Progressive Development of International Law, Research on International Issues. Vol. II, 1987; On the Subject of Extradition, Law Research, Vol. 1, 1989;

International Legislations on Environmental Law, Jurisprudence, Vol.2 1990;

The amendments on the Montreal Protocol on the Protection of Ozone Layers, China Environment Science, Vol. 3 1991;

Basic Principles of International Environmental Law, Journal of Wuhan University, Vol. 2, 1991; On the Law of International Protection of Plants and Animals, China’s Year Book of International law, 1991;

On the Voting Procedure of the Security Council,  Law Research, Vol. 2, 1992; United Nations and Regional Organizations, China’s Yearbook of International law, 1993;

On the Reform of the United Nations, China’s Yearbook of International Law 1995; On the United Nations Convention on Climate Changes, China’s Yearbook of International law, 1996;

On the Establishment of the International Criminal Court, China’s Yearbook of International law, 1997; Trigger Procedure of the Prosecutor in the International Criminal Court; Law Research, Vol. 3, 1998;

Genocide in International Law,Journal of Wuhan University, 1999;

The New Development of International Criminal law at the Juncture of the Centuries, Jurist, People’s University, No. 2, 2000; The Functions of Judges in International Criminal Tribunals,Jurist, People’s University, No.3 2001;

Crimes against Humanity, Criminal Law Review, 2002; On Plea Agreement before International Criminal Tribunals, Criminal Law Review, No.4, 2003;

Ne bis in idem in International Criminal Law, Application of Law, No.2, 2004;

War Crime in Non-International Armed Conflict, Journal of Fudan University, 2004;

On Crime of Aggression,  International Law Review of Wuhan University, No.3, 2005;

On the Sources of International Criminal Law,  International Criminal law Review, No.1, 2005; On Universal Jurisdiction in International Law, PKU International and Comparative Law Review, Vol 1. 2006;

Internal Armed Conflicts in International Law, International Law Review of Wuhan University, Vol.1, 2007;

On State Criminal Responsibility, Review of Criminal Law, 2008; Command Responsibility in the Jurisprudence of the ICTY  Individual Rights and International Justice, Giuffre Editore, Milano, 2009;

Actus Reus and Mens Rea, Oxford Companion of International Criminal Justice. 2009;

Legacy of International Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia and International Tribunal for Rwanda,  International Law Review of Wuhan University, No.3, 2010;

Crimes of terror in the jurisprudence of the International Criminal Judicial bodies, China’s Yearbook of International Law, 2010; 

One Man’s Convention---- In Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the entry into force of the Genocide Convention, PKU International and Comparative Law Review, Vol. 2, 2011.

Contributions of the ICTY and ICTR to the Development of International Law and International Humanitarian Law. ‘Historical Origins of International Criminal Law: Volumes II, 2014. International Law and International Humanitarian law in Ancient China, in International Law and International Humanitarian Law in Ancient China. ‘Historical Origins of International Criminal Law: Volumes 1, 2014. Nanjing Trial, Victor’s Justice?---On Hisao Case.2015

Positions: 

Current Position:

Judge in the Appeals Chamber of the International Tribunals for former Yugoslavia and Rwanda,

Judge of the United Nations Residual Mechanism of International Tribunals.

Senior Adviser to the Chinese Society of International Law,

Member of the Institute de Droit International.

Academic Positions:

Executive Member of Chinese Society of International Law ( since 1982);

Executive Member of Chinese Society of Environmental Law (since 1988);

Executive Member of Chinese Society of the Law of the Sea (1990-1995);

Vice-President of Asian Society of International Law (2007-2009);

Vice-President of Chinese Society of International Law (2007-2011);

Associate Member of the Institute of International Law (since 2007);

Full Member of the Institute of International Law (since 2013);

Director General of the Human Rights Center of Fudan University;

Honorable Director of International Criminal Law Center of Fudan Law School.

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