Dr Sergey Vasiliev is a postdoctoral researcher in international criminal law. He joined the Faculty of Law of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in October 2012. Previously he worked at the University of Amsterdam where he obtained his PhD degree (cum laude) for his thesis "International Criminal Trials: A Normative Theory". He also holds an LLM degree in international and European criminal law (Maastricht University, 2005, cum laude). In 2009-2013, Dr Sergey Vasiliev was a (coordinating) member of the International Expert Framework on International Criminal Procedure (IEF) and co-editor of the acclaimed treatise that the expert group produced, "International Criminal Procedure: Principles and Rules" (OUP, 2013). His past experiences include consulting organs of international and hybrid criminal tribunals and parties in the proceedings (on an ad hoc basis), as well as providing research support to think-tanks such as the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law and the Hague Institute for Global Justice. Dr Sergey Vasiliev is on the editorial board of the Leiden Journal of International Law.
Dr Sergey Vasiliev's current work focuses on, among other things, the institutional, legal-cultural, and normative pluralism in international criminal law. It examines the implications of this phenomenon for the coherence, effectiveness, and legitimacy of international criminal justice, with an emphasis on trans-judicial communication as a factor which can perpetuate or constrain the pluralism of international (criminal) law.