Guest lecture:
Paul Mevis (1959) is full professor of criminal law and criminal procedure law and head of the department of criminal law and criminal procedure at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
He has published widely on diverse issues such as substantive criminal law, criminal procedure, human rights, fair trial, sanctions, sanction systems and penitentiary law, ICT in the context of criminal procedure, forensic mental health and euthanasia. Paul Mevis combines his research and teaching at the Erasmus University Rotterdam with work in the field. From 1990 on, he has been an honorary judge in several Dutch courts of first instance and in the appeal court in Amsterdam. He is a member of the Council for the Administration of Criminal Justice and Protection of Juveniles as well as the Advisory Committee for the Revision of the Code of Criminal Procedure. He is one of the Dutch Members of the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation (IPPF). Previously, he has been involved in the Dutch Advisory Committee on End-of-life decision making for people who are weary of life, which published its report at the beginning of 2016 . He gave the 2015 Ver Heyden de Lancey Medical Law Lecture (University of Cambridge).
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Jan Reijntjes is professor emeritus of criminal law and criminal procedure at the Open University of the Netherlands and at the University of Curaçao, and a former judge in the Court of Appeal at 's Hertogenbosch.
Their lecture concerned the hypothetical trial of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, following World War I. It discussed the crimes he may have been charged with and whether ius ad bellum violations may have been among them; how principles such as nullum crimen, nulla poena would have been interpreted, and what defences might have been presented.