Frits Kalshoven

Frits Kalshoven (born  January 29, 1924 in The Hague ; † September 6, 2017 ) was a retired Dutch naval officer  . D. , lawyer and expert in the field of international humanitarian law . Most recently he was professor emeritus for international public law and international humanitarian law at the University of Leiden .

Life

Frits Kalshoven was born in The Hague in 1924 and joined the Royal Dutch Navy in 1945 , where he served as an officer until 1967 . During this time he graduated from Leiden University in 1954 with a law degree. He then worked as a lecturer in the areas of criminal law and international law at the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Marine , the officers' college of the Dutch Navy. After retiring from active military service, he joined the Department of International Public Law at the University of Leiden in 1967, and four years later he received his doctorate with a thesis on reprisals in war . From 1970 to 1985 he worked as a lecturer or professor for international public law at the University of Leiden. In 1975 he also took over the chair for international humanitarian law created by the Dutch Red Cross, which he held until 1989, and worked as legal advisor to the Red Cross in the Netherlands until 1993. In 1985 he was a lecturer and a year later director of studies at the Hague Academy of International Law . From 1999 to 2002 he was visiting professor at the University of Groningen .

As a member of the respective Dutch delegations, Frits Kalshoven was involved in drafting the two additional protocols from 1977 to the Geneva Conventions and the 1980 Convention "on the prohibition or restriction of the use of certain conventional weapons which cause excessive suffering or can have indiscriminate effects" , involved. From 1991 to 2002 he was a member of the International Humanitarian Investigation Commission , from 1997 as its president. During this time, from 1992 to 1993, he was chairman of a United Nations commission of experts to investigate possible violations of international humanitarian law on the territory of the former Yugoslavia . He died in 2017 at the age of 93.

Awards

Frits Kalshoven received the Ciardi Prize of the International Society for Military and Martial Law in 1973 for his dissertation, the second edition of which was published in 2005. He was also the recipient of the Cross of Merit of the Dutch Red Cross Society and an honorary professor at the International Institute for Humanitarian Law in San Remo . In 2003 he was awarded the Henry Dunant Medal , the highest honor of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement .

Works (selection)

• Belligerent Reprisals. Dissertation. Leiden 1971 and new edition 2005
• The law of warfare: A summary of its recent history and trends in development. Leiden 1973
• Constraints on the waging of war: an introduction to international humanitarian law. Third edition. Geneva 2001 (as co-author); Full text available in the project eLibrary Austria (eLib)
• Assisting the victims of armed conflicts and other disaster. Dordrecht, Boston and London, 1989 (as editor)
• Implementation of international humanitarian law. Dordrecht, Boston and Norwell 1989 (as editors)
• Reflections on the Law of War. Leiden 2007

literature

• Biographical Note on Frits Kalshoven. In: Frits Kalshoven, Astrid JM Delissen and Gerard J. Tanja: Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflict: Challenges Ahead. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1991, ISBN 0-79-231335-6 , pp. XIX-XX
• Principal Publications of Frits Kalshoven. In: Frits Kalshoven, Astrid JM Delissen and Gerard J. Tanja: Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflict: Challenges Ahead. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1991, ISBN 0-79-231335-6 , pp. XXI-XXVII

Web links

• Literature by and about Frits Kalshoven in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Professor Frits Kalshoven passed away. Leiden University, September 12, 2017, accessed September 13, 2017 .