Vaios Koutoulis
Vaios Koutroulis is a professor of public international law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He has given numerous lectures, including in training courses for members of the armed forces, humanitarian aid workers and other professionals, on issues relating to international humanitarian law and international criminal law. He has several publications to his credit on international humanitarian law, international criminal law and jus contra bellum. Vaios Koutroulis is a member of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission, the only permanent treaty-based body dealing with compliance with the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their First Additional Protocol. As a practitioner, he was a member of Belgium's legal team in the case of Questions Relating to the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite ( Belgium v. Senegal) in 2012 and counsel for Belgium in the recent (2024) Advisory Proceedings on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, both before the International Court of Justice. He has also consulted the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on international criminal law issues relating to the Ljubljana - The Hague Convention on International Cooperation in the Investigation and Prosecution of Crimes of Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, War Crimes and Other International Crimes. He participated in the negotiation of the Convention, as chairman of one of the three main working groups of the Ljubljana Diplomatic Conference.