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Mr. Fenrick has been a Senior Legal Adviser in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia since 1994. Until recently, he was the head of the Legal Advisory Section. He is now the Senior Adviser on Law of War Matters.
At the ICTY, he has provided international law advice to the OTP and argued at the trial and appeal levels, particularly on matters related to conflict classification and command responsibility. He was also the main author of the Report to the Prosecutor on the 1999 NATO Bombing Campaign against Yugoslavia. Immediately prior to coming to the ICTY he was a member of the SCR 780 Commission of Experts investigating war crimes allegations in the former Yugoslavia and, as such, he was responsible for legal matters and for on-site investigations.
He was a military lawyer in the Canadian Forces from 1974 to 1994, specializing in law of war and operational law matters. He has published widely on law of war matters and his publications have been cited by the ICTY and the Supreme Court of Canada.