Morten Bergsmo was an External Associate at PRIO until 2011.
Morten Bergsmo
Senior Researcher
Working experience:
2010 -: Senior Researcher, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law.
2010 -: Senior Researcher (Associated), PRIO.
2010 -: Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
2010 -: Visiting Professor, Georgetown University.
2010 April-May: Visiting Scholar in the University of California, Berkeley.
2006-2009: Senior Researcher, PRIO.
2003-05: Senior Legal Adviser and Chief of the Legal Advisory Section, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court.
2002-03: Senior Legal Adviser and co-ordinator of the process to establish the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
2002: Consultant-Member Advance Team of the International Criminal Court.
1996-2002: Expert adviser to the Preparatory Committee for the International Criminal Court, the Rome Diplomatic Conference for the International Criminal Court, and the Preparatory Commission of the International Criminal Court, representing the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in these negotiations; Acting Head of ICTY Delegation to the Rome Conference.
2000: Legal Adviser on special assignment, Office of the General Prosecutor of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor.
1994-2002: Legal Adviser, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
1993-94: Legal Adviser, United Nations Commission of Experts established pursuant to Security Council resolution 780 (1992), seconded by the Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
1991-93: Researcher, Norwegian Human Rights Institute.
Education:
2002-: Doctor of Philosophy in International Law (Ph.D.), Cambridge University, St. John’s College.
1983-91: Candidatus Juris, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law.
1984: Iranian studies, University of Copenhagen, Institute of Oriental Philology.
Latest publications
All publications
Distributive Justice in Transitions
Edited Volume
Complementarity and the Exercise of Universal Jurisdiction for Core International Crimes
Edited Volume
Afghanistan og folkeretten II
Popular Article in VG
Letters from Tabriz: The Russian Suppression of the Iranian Constotutional Movement
Book Review
Some Lessons for the International Criminal Court from the International Judicial Response to the Rwandan Genocide
Book Chapter in After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond
Folkeretten og Afghanistan
Popular Article in VG
The Theme of Selection and Prioritization Criteria and Why it is Relevant
Book Chapter in Criteria for Prioritizing and Selecting Core International Crimes Cases
Tematisk etterforskning og straffeforfølgning av seksualisert vold i konflikter: Er det en uproblematisk praksis?
Book Chapter in Kjønn, krig, konflikt
International Criminal Courts and Tribunals, Complementarity and Jurisdiction
Book Chapter in The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law
The Mental State Requirement of the International Crime of Genocide
PhD Thesis
Latest news
Bergsmo at Stanford meeting on Berkeley project
Morten Bergsmo presented and played an active role at a two-day expert meeting at Stanford University on a new project of the UC Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center on the legacy of internationalised criminal jurisdictions (the 'Virtual Tribunal Project' headed by Professor David Cohen of Berkeley). Leading international experts on information technology participated, including professors Terry Winograd (Stanford), Ruzena Bajcsy (Berkeley) and Franz Guenthner (Munich). Bergsmo emphasised the importance of careful analysis of user needs for the new project, and the facilitation of study of the factual findings of internationalised criminal jurisdictions by the project.
PRIOite-designed knowledge-transfer platform launched by the ICC
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has launched a new knowledge-transfer platform for international criminal and human rights law. The platform is freely available to the general public through the website of the Court. It is likely to become the main vehicle to obtain information on international criminal law. As such, it empowers victims and others who seek a judicial response to atrocities. The platform has been designed by PRIO researcher Morten Bergsmo.
Sociology of Discourse on Judicial Independence
PRIO researcher Morten Bergsmo lectured at the Farewell Seminar of President Philippe Kirsch of the International Criminal Court held in the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague on 6 February 2009. The seminar theme was Judicial Independence – Operational Interdependence: Perspectives on the Judicial Mandate of the ICC. Morten’s innovative lecture addressed the sociology or parameters of the discourse on judicial independence in international criminal justice: which questions can be asked, by whom, and how real can the discourse realistically be?
New FICHL Publication
The Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law is pleased to announce its Publication Series No. 2 entitled "National Military Manuals on the Law of Armed Conflict" now available on-line [Download Report, pdf].
Morten Bergsmo presented at the ICC Assembly of States Parties
PRIO researcher Morten Bergsmo gave presentations at two meetings during the 7th Session of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court in The Hague on 19 and 20 November 2008.
Morten Bergsmo granted prestigious Prize
PRIO researcher Morten Bergsmo has been granted the international 'Dieter Meurer Prize for Legal Informatics' for 2008 by the German Association for Computing in the Judiciary ('Deutscher EDV-Gerichtstag e.V.') and the German-language legal information service provider 'juris GmbH' (Germany's 'LexisNexis' or 'Lovdata') for his creation and development of the Case Matrix, a tool designed to make work on accountability for international crimes committed in armed conflicts more precise and effective.
Military Manuals
The Forum for International Criminal Justice and Conflict at PRIO organized a sucessful conference on military manuals 10 December.
New PRIO publication series
The Forum for International Criminal Justice and Conflict has started the FICJC Publications series. The first issue in the series is called ‘Importing Core International Crimes into National Criminal law’. The publications in the series are available both in print and in pdf through PRIO’s website.
International crimes in national criminal law
PRIO has the pleasure of inviting you to the seminar "Importing core international crimes into national criminal law" organized by the Forum for International Criminal Justice and Conflict.
Latest events
The role and integrity of the first Review Conference on the Statute of the International Criminal Court
Crimes Against Humanity in Eastern Burma?
Criteria for prioritizing and selecting core international crimes cases
Are amnesties for atrocities sustainable over time? The case of Argentina
Seminar on the military and international criminal justice
Knowing the Number of Dead and Missing Persons in Armed Conflict
Who is Responsible for the Impact of International Criminal Justice?
Military Manuals
