Online meeting with Jan Römer about his experience in international humanitarian law

Topic: "Personal experience in the field of international humanitarian law (IHL) and understanding of the role of an international lawyer in this process"

Date: December 12, 2023 at 14 a.m.

Working language: English
Location: Zoom (link to join will be additionally sent to registered members) 

Link to the Google form for pre-registration

Information about the lecturer:

Dr. Jan Römer joined the ICRC in 2001. His last appointment was in Ukraine as head of the ICRC legal department. Prior to that, he was a legal advisor in Ethiopia (2022), in East Asia as a regional legal advisor (2018-2020), in operations in Ukraine (2014-2017) and at headquarters in Geneva, where he was responsible for Europe, Central Asia and Latin America (2010-2014). Yang has also served as an ICRC delegate in various countries, such as Iraq, Georgia, Colombia, Zambia, Russia and Afghanistan, mainly in the field of defense.

Before joining the ICRC, Jan studied and worked as a lawyer in his native Germany (1997-2001). He studied law at the Ruprecht Karl University (Heidelberg) and the University of Geneva (1991-1997), and in 2009 received a doctorate in law from the University of Europe Viadrian (Frankfurt an der Oder).

From 2018 to 2020, he was one of the two chief editors of the Asia-Pacific Journal of IHL and has since been a member of the journal's advisory board. He published, among other things, the book Murder in the Grey Zone between Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in 2010 (Springer Publishing House, Heidelberg).