About the Author

• Author: Joseph Rikhof
• Pages: 892-892

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About the Author

Joseph Rikhof has received a BCL from the University of Nijmegen, The

Netherlands; an LLB from McGill University; a Diploma in Air and

Space Law from McGill University; and a PhD from the Irish Centre

for Human Rights. He teaches international criminal law as an adjunct

professor at the University of Ottawa. He was senior counsel, Manager

of the Law, with the Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Section

of the Department of Justice, Canada. He was special counsel and a

policy advisor to the Modern War Crimes Section of the Department of

Citizenship & Immigration between 1998 and 2002 and a visiting pro-

fessional with the International Criminal Court in 2005 and served with

the Department of Justice from 2002 until his retirement in 2017. He

was also a member of the editorial board of the Philippe Kirsch Global

Justice Journal between 2017 and 2022, where he regularly posted short

commentaries on recent developments in international criminal justice.

His area of expertise is in law related to organized crime, terrorism,

genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, especially in the

context of immigration and refugee law. He has published over sixty

articles, as well the books International and Transnational Criminal

Law, 3d ed (with co-author Robert J. Currie, 2020), and A Theory of

Punishable Participation in Universal Crimes (with co-author Terje

Einarsen, 2018), exploring these research interests, and has lectured

on the same topics in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia,

the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand.