Frederik Harhoff
Frederik Harhoff (born May 27, 1949 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish legal scholar.
Life
He studied law at the University of Copenhagen and received his doctorate there in 1993. He was a lecturer there from 1985 and an associate professor from 1998 to 2001. From March 2001 to December 2001 he was a judge at Østre Landsret (High Court for Eastern Denmark).
Since 2002 he worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), from 2007 to October 2013 as a non-permanent ( ad litem ) judge.
On June 6, 2013, Harhoff sent an email to 56 recipients from his circle of friends in which he reported the surprising acquittals in the proceedings against military persons accused as war criminals (e.g. the Croatian General Ante Gotovina and the Serbian General Momčilo Perišić , who had been sentenced to 24 and 27 years in prison in the first instance and both were acquitted in the second instance with 3 to 2 judges' votes). The presiding judge, the American Theodor Meron , had put pressure on his fellow judges to acquit the accused. This may be due to the fear of military personnel in Western states that they themselves will be held accountable for war crimes.
Although Harhoff had not intended this, the content of his letter became public. After Vojislav Šešelj , who was accused before the ICTY, filed a petition for bias against Harhoff, this was withdrawn from the trial against Šešelj in August 2013.
Publications
- Rigsfaellesskabet , 1993, ISBN 87-7724-335-8 (also Diss. Univ. Copenhagen)
- The Role of the Parties Before International Criminal Courts in Light of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda , in: International and national prosecution of crimes under international law. Current developments , ed. v. Horst Fischer , 2001, ISBN 3-8305-0136-6 , pp. 645-664
- (with Ole Espersen and Ole Spiermann): Folkeret. De international retsforhold , 2003, ISBN 87-7241-063-9
- The first ever international trial on genocide. Notes on Akayesu , in: Human rights and criminal justice for the downtrodden. Essays in honor of Asbjørn Eide , ed. By Morten Bergsmo, 2003, ISBN 90-0413-676-2 , pp. 139–156
Web links
- CV (PDF; 33 kB) on the ICTY homepage
- Matthias Schuster: The ICTY in crisis? - The "Harhoff case" in context , in: Journal for International Criminal Law Doctrine 2015, Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 .
- Hands-free speaker from the war crimes tribunal , Süddeutsche Zeitung online, June 26, 2013
- Murderers are being allowed to go free , bt.dk, June 13, 2013
- Harhoff: Gotovina i Markač oslobođeni pod pritiskom Amerike , novilist.hr, (Croatian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ on the acquittals see Florian Bieber , The Limits of the ICTY , in: Südosteuropa-Mitteilungen, Issue 2/2013, pp. 46–50
- ↑ ICTY withdrew judge's trial for bias , Kleine Zeitung August 29, 2013
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Harhoff, Frederik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish legal scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |