CURRICULUM VITAE Barrister-at-Law, Victorian Bar Professor, La Trobe Law School Contact details E-mail contact: Phone: g.boas@latrobe.edu.au gideon.boas@vicbar.com.au 03 9225 6153 (w) 0438 382738 (m) Academic posts/employment Professor, La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University, January 2017 to present Associate Professor, Monash University Law Faculty July 2007 to December 2016. Fellow of the European and EU Centre, Monash University - 2008 to 2014. Associate, Castan Centre for Human Rights - 2007 to 2016. Honorary Senior Fellow of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, University of Melbourne Law Faculty, 2006 2015. Sessional lecturing, Monash University, Leiden University, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies Jan 2005 to July 2007. Academic grants Sole Chief Investigator on ARC Discovery Project Grant: International Criminal Justice: Law, Policy and its Relevance to Australia s security, 2010-2012 ($176,000). Co-Chief Investigator on ARC Linkage Grant entitled Australia s Post World War II War Crimes Trials: A systematic and Comprehensive Law Report Series, 2008-2011 ($220,593). Recipient of Monash Research Accelerator Programme Grant entitled Dealing with war criminals within Australia, 2011-2012 ($108,283). Monash University Law Faculty Small Grant, 2009/10. Monash University Law Faculty Small Grant, 2008/9. Monash University Law Faculty Small Grant, 2007/8. Academic Prizes Recipient of Monash Research Accelerator Programme Grant, 2010 Early Career Researcher of the Year Award, Law Faculty, 2009 Victoria Bar Broad trial, appellate and advice practice in criminal and civil law.
Regular trial and appellate appearances in Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, Federal Court and County Court. Occasional High Court appearances. Academic qualifications Ph.D: The Milošević Trial: Lessons for the Conduct of Complex International Criminal Proceedings, University of Melbourne, 2007. LL.M. (by major thesis): On the Frontiers of International Criminal Procedure: A Critique of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the ICTY, University of Melbourne, 2000. LL.B., Monash University, 1993. B.A., Monash University, 1991. Graduate Certificate of Higher Education, Monash University, 2010. Certificate, Course on Laws of War, International Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo, Italy, 1996.
RESEARCH Authored Books John Arthur, Geoffrey Bellew, Gideon Boas, Pascale Chifflet and Ilija Vickovich, Australian Uniform Evidence Law: Principles and Context (Lexis Nexis, 2017-18, under contract) Gideon Boas and Pascale Chifflet, International Criminal Justice (Edward Elgar, 2017) Gideon Boas, Public International Law: Contemporary Principles and Perspectives (Edward Elgar, 2012) Gideon Boas, James L. Bischoff, Natalie L. Reid and B. Don Taylor III, International Criminal Procedure (Cambridge University Press, 2011) Gideon Boas, James L. Bischoff, and Natalie L. Reid, Elements of Crimes Under International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2008) Gideon Boas, James L. Bischoff, and Natalie L. Reid, Forms of Responsibility in International Criminal Law (Cambridge University Press, 2007) Gideon Boas, The Milošević Trial: Lessons for the Conduct of Complex International Criminal Proceedings (Cambridge University Press, 2007) Edited Books Gideon Boas, William A. Schabas and Michael P. Scharf (eds.), International Criminal Justice: Legitimacy and Coherence (Edward Elgar, 2012) Hirad Abtahi and Gideon Boas (eds.), The Dynamics of International Criminal Justice: Essays in Honour of Sir Richard May (Martinus Nijhoff, 2006) Gideon Boas and William A. Schabas (eds.), International Criminal Law: Developments in the Case Law of the ICTY (Martinus Nijhoff, 2004) Book Chapters Gideon Boas and Lisa Lee, Command Responsibility and Other Grounds of Criminal Responsibility, in Georgina Fitzpatrick, Tim McCormack and Narrelle Morris, Australia's War Crimes Trials 1945-51 (Brill, 2016). Gideon Boas, What s in a word: the nature and meaning of International Criminal Justice, in Gideon Boas, William A. Schabas and Michael P. Scharf (eds.), International Criminal Justice: Legitimacy and Coherence (Edward Elgar, 2012). Gideon Boas, Joinder and the Death of Milošević, in Timothy William Waters, The Milošević Trial An Autopsy (Oxford University Press, 2013). Gideon Boas, Omission Liability in International Criminal Law A Case for Reform, in Shane Darcy and Joseph Powderly, Judicial Creativity at the International Criminal Tribunals (Oxford University Press, 2011). Gideon Boas, Command Responsibility for the Failure to Stop Atrocities: The Legacy of the Tokyo Tribunal in Yuki Tanaka, Timothy LH McCormack and Gerry Simpson (eds), Beyond Victors Justice? The Tokyo War Crimes Trial Revisited (Martinus Nijhoff, 2010). Gideon Boas, The difficulty with individual criminal responsibility in international criminal law in Carsten Stahn and Larissa van den Herik (eds.), Future Perspectives on International Criminal Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Gideon Boas, Commentary contempt, false testimony and misconduct, in Andre Klip and Goran Sluiter (eds), Annotated Leading Cases of international Criminal Tribunals: The Special Court for Sierra Leone 2004-2006 (Intersentia, 2010). Gideon Boas, The case for a new appellate jurisdiction for International Criminal Law, in Göran Sluiter and Sergey Vasiliev (eds.), International Criminal Procedure: Towards A Coherent Body of Law (CMP Publishing, 2008). Gideon Boas, The Right to Self-Representation in International and Domestic Criminal Law Limitations and Qualifications on that Right, in Hirad Abtahi and Gideon Boas (eds.), The Dynamics of International Criminal Justice: Essays in Honour of Sir Richard May (Martinus Nijhoff, 2006). Gideon Boas, A Code of Evidence and Procedure for International Criminal Law? The Rules of the ICTY, in Gideon Boas and William A. Schabas (eds.), International Criminal Law Developments in the Case Law of the ICTY (Kluwer Law International, 2004). Gideon Boas, Admissibility of Evidence Under the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the ICTY: Development of the Flexibility Principle, in Richard May et al. (eds.), Essays on ICTY Procedure and Evidence in Honour of Gabrielle Kirk McDonald (2000). Refereed Journal Articles Gideon Boas and Pascale Chifflet, Suspected War Criminals in Australia: Law and Policy (2016) 40(1) Melbourne University Law Review. Pascale Chifflet and Gideon Boas, Sentencing coherence in International Criminal Law: the sentencing of Biljana Plavšić and Miroslav Bralo (2012) 23 Criminal Law Forum, 135-159. Gideon Boas, Self-representation before the ICTY: a case for reform (2010) 5 Journal of International Criminal Justice, 53-83. Gideon Boas, War Crimes Prosecutions in Australia and other common law countries: some observations (2010) 21 Criminal Law Forum, 313-330. Gideon Boas, Trying tyrants for mass atrocity (2009) 34 (2) Alternative Law Journal, 107-110. Gideon Boas and Timothy LH McCormack, Learning the lessons of the Milošević trial (2006) 9 Netherlands Yearbook of International Law, 65-85. Gideon Boas, An Overview of Implementation by Australia of the Statute of the ICC (2004) 2 Journal of International Criminal Justice, 179 190. Gideon Boas, Developments in the Law of Procedure and Evidence at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court, (2001) 12 Criminal Law Forum, 167 183. Gideon Boas, Creating Laws of Evidence for International Criminal Law: The ICTY and the Principle of Flexibility (2001) 12 Criminal Law Forum, 41 90. Gideon Boas, Comparing the ICTY and the ICC: Some Procedural & Substantive Issues, (2000) XLVII Netherlands International Law Review, 267 293. Gideon Boas, Part VA of the Trade Practices Act: A Failure to Adequately Reform Product Liability Laws in Australia (1995) 6 Bond Law Review, 112-145. Gideon Boas, Dietrich, the High Court and Unfair Criminal Trials Legislation: A Constitutional Guarantee? (1994) 19 Monash Law Review, 256 273.
Other Contributions to Books or Refereed Journals Gideon Boas, Comment in response to Christian De Vos, Someone who comes between one person and another: Lubanga, local co-operation and the right to a fair trial, in Melbourne Journal of International Law, Online Symposium, 2011. Contributor, The Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law (Oxford University Press, 2010): major entries on the Blaškić and Blaškić case and the Milošević case. Contributor, The (Oxford) Australian Legal Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2009): entries on Geneva Conventions 1949, International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, Prisoner of War, Superior Orders, Twelve-mile Limit. Gideon Boas, Moving on from Milošević (2008) 75 The European Lawyer, 54-55. Gideon Boas, Introduction to Special Edition on Sentencing (2003) Leiden Journal of International Law, 715-716. Other Articles Gideon Boas, Unconventional Warfare, Partnership, Summer issue (1997). Gideon Boas, Landmines: The Gap Between Law and Humanity (1996) 34 Law Society Journal, 60-63. Gideon Boas, The Law of War: let it be known, (1996) 60 NSW Law Society Journal, 15 Gideon Boas, Part VA of the Trade Practices Act: Still failing consumers (1996) 6 Australian Product Liability Reporter, 137-139. Gideon Boas, War and the Environment a Polemic (1996) 2 Australian Environmental Law News, 28. Vera Culkoff and Gideon Boas, My body, my medical records (1994) 2 Australian Health Law Bulletin, 113-114. Written and/or Edited Reports and Submissions Lead author and Working Group Chair, Appeals, Reviews and Reconsideration, in International Expert Framework Group project in International Criminal Procedure (2012). Co-author of Gideon Boas and Gabriel Oosthuizen, Suggestions for Future Lessons-Learned Studies: the Experience of other International and Hybrid Criminal Courts of Relevance to the International Criminal Court, International Criminal Law Services (January 2010), prepared for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the UK Government, http://www.iclsfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/icls-reportlessonslearnedgapsstudy-final.pdf. Co-author of Report on the Right to Counsel in Vietnam, commissioned by United Nations Development Fund.
Co-author, In the Matter of the Legality of the Charge against David Hicks, Expert paper, 8 March 2007 (launched by Law Council of Australia, http://law.anu.edu.au/acel/media/rothwell%20-%208%20march%202007.pdf). Drafter of bi-annual reports of the ICTY Rules Committee to the Plenary for consideration and approval of amendments to the Tribunal s Rules of Procedure and Evidence, 2000-2006. Principles for the Conduct of Company Operations Within the Minerals Industry, co-author and co-editor as part of the Australian Asia-Pacific Mining Network (1998). Australian Red Cross submission to Australian Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, Restrictions on the Use of Blinding Laser Weapons and Landmines, 5th Report, 2 December 1996. Leader of the Australian Research Team for the preparation of the national study to contribute to the International Committee of the Red Cross Customary International Humanitarian Law Study. The Australian study was completed in 1997 and reflected in Jean-Marie Henckaerts Louise Doswald-Beck and (eds.), Customary International Humanitarian Law (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Editorial Positions and Reviewing/refereeing Member, Editorial Committee, Criminal Law Forum, 2011-2015. Edward Elgar Press, International Law and International Criminal Law Consultant, 2013 ongoing. Cambridge University Press, Specialist International Criminal Law Consultant, 2007 ongoing. General Editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2006-2010. Senior Editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law, Cambridge University Press, December 2002 to October 2006. Editor, Mining Monitor, published by Minerals Policy Institute, 1998-1999. Media and external Numerous opinion pieces inter alia in The Age, Sydney Morning herald, The Drum, The Conversation, the Australian, Rapporteur, Brisbane Times. Television interviews on a broad range of international criminal justice and politics issues (Reuters TV, BBC World, CNN, ABC, Al Jazeera TV, Channel Ten). Radio interviews on a broad range of international criminal justice and politics, and criminal law (ABC Radio The World Today, AM, PM, Radio National, National Perspective, Late Night Live, SBS Radio, BBC World Service). Professional Admissions, Board Membership and Consulting Positions Admitted to Victorian Bar 2012. Admitted to practice in the Federal & High Courts of Australia 1995.
Admitted to practice as a legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales 1994. Admitted to practice as a Barrister & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria 1994. Consulting positions -Expert opinion provided on extradition objections in the matter of Republic of Indonesia and Adrian Kiki Ariawan, also known as Adrian Adamas Request for Extradition to Indonesia, December 2009. -Lead consultant on Lessons Learned ICC Gap Study, engaged by International Criminal Law Services to research and write report for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the UK Government, 2009-2010. -International Researcher for United Nations Development Fund Project, The Right to Counsel in Vietnamese Criminal Law and Practice (consultancy undertaken with Ass Prof Pip Nicolson, University of Melbourne), 2008-2009. -Pro bono member of Radovan Karadžić s defence team researching, drafting and providing strategic advice on legal aspects of Karadžić s defence, 2008- present. -Founding member and Coordinator of Appeals and Review section, International Expert Framework Towards Codification of General Rules and Principles of International Criminal Procedure. This project, based at Amsterdam University and funded by The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law involves over 40 experts in the field of the law of international criminal procedure and its objective is to examine the procedural law and practice of international criminal tribunals and establish a set of general rules and principles of international criminal procedure 2008-2011. -Victorian Bar and Criminal Bar Association, developing and delivering training to barristers on the criminal process rights under the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities May 2009. -Department of Justice, developing and delivering training programme to prosecutors and Victorian Legal Aid lawyers on the implementation of the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities and its practical impact on the work of these practitioners (Castan Centre project). Delivered over four sessions in September/October 2007. -Judicial College of Victoria, developing and delivering training programme to prosecutors and Victorian Legal Aid lawyers on the implementation of the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities and its practical impact on the work of these practitioners (Castan Centre project). Delivered over three sessions in October 2007. -Member of expert group for the defence reviewing the new charges against David Hicks, launched by Law Council of Australia in March 2007. -Western Mining Corporation, consulting on economic, community and environmental sustainability of the company s mining operations, serving as a member of the Environment Progress Report external Advisory Group 1997-1999; -Amnesty International, consulting on the Organisation s development of human rights in armed conflict reporting 1997-1998.
Employment History in Reverse Chronological Order 2012 present: Barrister, Victorian Bar July 2007 December 2016: Associate Professor, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia November 2006 to June 2007: Senior Consultant Education and Training, Potter Farrelly & Associates, Melbourne, Australia June 1998 to October 2006: Senior Legal Officer (P5), Trial Chamber III (pretrial and two trial sections), Chambers Legal Support, United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), The Hague, Netherlands September 1997 to June 1998: Senior Lawyer, Andrew Fegent & Company, Lawyers, Sydney, Australia May 1996 to September 1997: International Humanitarian Law Officer, Australian Red Cross (New South Wales) March 1994 to May1996: Lawyer Cashman & Partners, Lawyers and Attorneys, Sydney, Australia