Professor Héctor Olásolo: “Preliminary examinations, positive complementarity, modes of liability and victim participation”

Héctor Olásolo is Professor of International Criminal Law and Procedure at the University of Utrecht, and Director of the Utrecht School of Law's Clinical Programme on Conflict, Human Rights and International Justice. He obtained his law degree at the University of Salamanca in 1996, L.L.M. from Columbia University (New York) in 2001 and Ph.D. at the University of Salamanca in 2003. He was a member of the Spanish Delegation to the Preparatory Commission for the ICC from 1999 to 2002, worked in the Legal Advisory and Appeal Sections of the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia from 2002 to 2004, and served as a Legal Officer in Chambers at the ICC from 2004 to 2009. He is the Chairman of the Ibero-American Institute of The Hague for Peace, Human Rights and International Justice. His latest book, Essays on International Criminal Justice, examines the preventative mandate of the ICC, the complementarity regime, the new role granted to victims, and the prosecution of the highest leadership through the notion of indirect perpetration.