Senior Counsel
Sergey Sayapin
About
- Dr. Prof. Sergey Sayapin teaches and researches in the areas of international and criminal law and is among Central Asia’s leading experts on international conflict and security law. In 2000-2014, he worked in the Communication Department at the Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Central Asia. Dr. Sayapin regularly advises the ICRC, UNODC and Central Asian States’ authorities on international law issues, and appears in national and international mass media. In 2019, he contributed to the revised edition of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and an entry about him was included in the third volume of the Ukrainian Encyclopedia of International Law. Dr. Sayapin is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Central Asian Yearbook of International and Comparative Law, and the sub-editor for Central Asia of the Brill Encyclopedia of International Law in Asia. He is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Law at Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics, and Strategic Research (KIMEP).
- He accepts appointments as arbitrator in investment arbitration.
Education
Date
Institution
Recognition
Experience
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor, School of Law, Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics, and Strategic Research (KIMEP), 2019 to date
Associate Dean, School of Law, KIMEP University, 2020 to date
Programme Director, LLB in International Law, School of Law, KIMEP University, 2016 to 2020
Visiting Associate Professor of International Law, Suleyman Demirel University (Almaty, Kazakhstan), 2021 to date
Research Director, School of Law, KIMEP University, 2014 to 2016
Visiting Assistant Professor of International Conflict and Security Law, Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, Ukraine), May 2019
Member, PhD Examination Council on International Law, KAZGUU University (Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan), 2016 to date
Assistant Professor, School of Law, KIMEP University, 2014 to 2019
COURSES TAUGHT [IN ENGLISH]
Criminal Law in Kazakhstan and Foreign States
Criminology
Law and the Arts
Sociology of Law
International Institutions and Law
International Human Rights Law
Public International Law (Advanced)
International Conflict and Security Law (undergraduate)
Public International Law
Introduction to Law
International Criminal Law
Law of the WTO (undergraduate and postgraduate)
Anti-corruption Law (postgraduate)
ACADEMIC SUPERVISION AND EXAMINATION
Since 2014, supervised sixty LLM and LLB theses [written in English] on international institutions and law, criminal law and criminology, comparative law, law and economics, international trade law, anti-corruption law, law and technology, and law and society.
Since 2014, external examiner of twelve PhD and LLD theses submitted at the American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan); Higher School of Economics (Russian Federation); Kazan Federal University (Russian Federation); National University “Odesa Law Academy” (Ukraine); Tashkent State University of Law (Uzbekistan); University of the Western Cape (South Africa); and the University of World Economy and Diplomacy (Uzbekistan).
MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARDS
Asian Journal of International Law (Cambridge University Press), 2020 to date
Evrigenis Yearbook of International and European Law; Pravova Derzhava, 2019 to date
China and WTO Review; Journal of East Asia and International Law; Law and State; Ukrainian
Journal of International Law, 2018 to date
Belarusian Yearbook of International Law, 2015 to date
European Political and Law Discourse, 2014 to date
International Justice Journal, 2011 to 2013
ACADEMIC REFEREE
Review of Central and East European Law (Brill), 2021 to date
Journal of International Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press); Journal of International Peacekeeping (Brill), 2019 to date
International Review of the Red Cross (Cambridge University Press), 2017 to date
Newsletter of the Institute of Legislation under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2016 to date
Publications
- Sergey Sayapin has written numerous articles, monographs, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and expert reports on international and criminal law, a more detailed list of which could be found here: https://kimep.academia.edu/SergeySayapin.
Here is some representative examples of his written works:
SINGLE-AUTHORED BOOKS / MONOGRAPHS
Pravovye aspekty operatsiy po podderjaniyu mira [Legal Aspects of Peace Support Operations] (Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Kazakhstan, ICRC Regional Delegation in Central Asia, 2016) [in Russian and English], 325 pp.
The Crime of Aggression in International Criminal Law: Historical Development, Comparative Analysis and Present State (T. M. C. Asser Press / Springer, 2014) [in English], xxiv + 334 pp.
CO-AUTHORED TEXTBOOKS AND MANUALS
Mezhdunarodnoye ugolovnoye pravo [International Criminal Law] (Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent State University of Law, 2021) [in Russian], 305 pp.
Lichnost’ i obshchestvo. Metodicheskoe posobie dlya prepodavateley [Individual and Society. Methodology manual for teachers] (Tashkent, 2006) [in Russian and Uzbek], 168 pp.
Uchebno-metodicheskie materialy po mezhdunarodnomu gumanitarnomu pravu dlya prepodavateley i studentov obshchestvenno-gumanitarnykh distsiplin [Teaching and learning materials on international humanitarian law for professors and students of socio-humanitarian disciplines] (Tashkent, 2003) [in Russian and Uzbek], 144 pp.
CO-EDITED BOOKS
International Conflict and Security Law: A Research Handbook (T. M. C. Asser Press / Springer, 2022) [in English], x + 1590 pp. [with Rustam Atadjanov, Umesh Kadam, Gerhard Kemp, Nicolás Zambrana-Tevar, and Noëlle Quénivet]
Encyclopedia of Public International Law in Asia, Volume III: Central & South Asia (Brill, 2021) [in English], xiv + 725 pp. [with Seokwoo Lee, Hee Eun Lee, Muhammad Ekramul Haque, Rajesh Babu Ravindran, Jamal Seifi, and Wasantha Seneviratne]
TRANSLATED BOOKS
Gerhard Werle, Printsypy mezhdunarodnogo ugolovnogo prava [Principles of International Criminal Law] (Odessa Moscow, 2011) [in Russian], 910 pp. – translator and editor
BOOK CHAPTERS IN ENGLISH
“Human Rights in Post-Soviet Central Asia”, in L. Leontiev and P. Amarasinghe (eds.), Thirty Years Looking Back: State-Building, Rule of Law, Good Governance and Human Rights in the Post-Soviet Space (Routledge, 2022), pp. 135 – 149
“The Impact of Professor Werle´s Doctrine of International Criminal Law in the Post-Soviet Central Asia”, in F. Jessberger, M. Vormbaum and B. Burghardt (eds.), Festschrift für Gerhard Werle (Mohr Siebeck Verlag, 2022), pp. 271 – 277
“Institutional Attitudes Towards Acts of Aggression”, in S. Bock and E. Conze (eds.), Rethinking the Crime of Aggression: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (T. M. C. Asser Press / Springer, 2022), pp. 139 – 151
“Kazakhstan”, in M. Porsche-Ludwig and Ying-Yu Chen (eds.), Handbook of Asian States: Geography History Culture Politics Economy, Part 1 (LIT Verlag, 2021), pp. 267 – 276
“Uzbekistan”, in M. Porsche-Ludwig and Ying-Yu Chen (eds.), Handbook of Asian States: Geography History Culture Politics Economy, Part 2 (LIT Verlag, 2021), pp. 737 – 744
“Russian Approaches to International Law and Cyberspace”, in N. Tsagourias and R. Buchan (eds.), Research Handbook on International Law and Cyberspace, 2nd edition (Edward Elgar, 2021), pp. 525 – 546
“The Crime of Aggression in the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights”, in C. Jalloh, M. K. Clarke and V. Nmehielle (eds.), The African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights in Context: Development and Challenges (Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 314 – 335
“International Law on the Use of Force: Current Challenges”, in L. N. Sadat (ed.), Seeking Accountability for the Illegal Use of Force: Challenges and Future Prospects (Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 273 – 282
“International Law and the Use of Force: an Essay to Honour the 35th Anniversary of the United Nations Definition of Aggression”, in D. C. Fabriz, J. P. Filho, J. P. F. Homem de Siqueira, P. R. Ulhoa, H. V. Fuchs (eds.), O Tempo e os Direitos Humanos (Lumen Juris Editora, 2011), pp. 827 – 865
BOOK CHAPTERS IN RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN
“Perspektivy kriminalizatsii mejdunarodno-protivopravnogo primeneniya informatsionnyh tehnologiy v kontekste voorujennyh konfliktov” [The Prospects of Criminalising the Internationally Wrongful Use of Information Technologies in the Context of Armed Conflicts], in Borba spravonarusheniyami v globalnyh kommunikatsionnyh setyah: opyt Respubliki Kazahstan I zarubejnyh stran [The Suppression of Infractions in Global Communication Networks: the Experience of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Foreign States] (Almaty, 2012), pp. 95 – 98 [in Russian]
“K voprosu ob opredelenii prestupleniya agressii: promejutochnaya otsenka raboty Spetsialnoy rabochey gruppy Assamblei gosudarstv-uchastnikov Rimskogo statuta Mejdunarodnogo ugolovnogo suda” [The Definition of the Crime of Aggression Revisited: a Preliminary Assessment of the Work Accomplished to Date by the Special Working Group under the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court], in G. Bogush, E. Trikoz (eds.), Mezhdunarodnoe ugolovnoe pravosudie: sovremennye problem [International Criminal Justice: Contemporary Issues] (2009), pp. 157 – 173, published by the Institute of Law and Public Policy (Moscow, Russian Federation) [in Russian]
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
“Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO)”, in S. Lee, E. Lee, M. E. Haque, R. B. Ravindran, S. Sayapin, J. Seifi, W. Seneviratne (eds.), Encyclopedia of Public International Law in Asia, Volume III: Central & South Asia (Brill, 2021), pp. 184 – 185
“Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)”, in S. Lee, E. Lee, M. E. Haque, R. B. Ravindran, S. Sayapin, J. Seifi, W. Seneviratne (eds.), Encyclopedia of Public International Law in Asia, Volume III: Central & South Asia (Brill, 2021), pp. 183 – 184
“Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea”, in S. Lee, E. Lee, M. E. Haque, R. B. Ravindran, S. Sayapin, J. Seifi, W. Seneviratne (eds.), Encyclopedia of Public International Law in Asia, Volume III: Central & South Asia (Brill, 2021), pp. 200 – 201
“Crime of Aggression”, in S. Lee, E. Lee, M. E. Haque, R. B. Ravindran, S. Sayapin, J. Seifi, W. Seneviratne (eds.), Encyclopedia of Public International Law in Asia, Volume III: Central & South Asia (Brill, 2021), pp. 212 – 214
“Patriacide”, in S. Lee, E. Lee, M. E. Haque, R. B. Ravindran, S. Sayapin, J. Seifi, W. Seneviratne (eds.), Encyclopedia of Public International Law in Asia, Volume III: Central & South Asia (Brill, 2021), pp. 215 – 216
“Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)”, in S. Lee, E. Lee, M. E. Haque, R. B. Ravindran, S. Sayapin, J. Seifi, W. Seneviratne (eds.), Encyclopedia of Public International Law in Asia, Volume III: Central & South Asia (Brill, 2021), pp. 188 – 189
“State Report Overview”, in S. Lee, E. Lee, M. E. Haque, R. B. Ravindran, S. Sayapin, J. Seifi, W. Seneviratne (eds.), Encyclopedia of Public International Law in Asia, Volume III: Central & South Asia (Brill, 2021), pp. 169 – 173
“The Aral Sea”, in S. Lee, E. Lee, M. E. Haque, R. B. Ravindran, S. Sayapin, J. Seifi, W. Seneviratne (eds.), Encyclopedia of Public International Law in Asia, Volume III: Central & South Asia (Brill, 2021), pp. 198 – 199
“Russie” [Russia], in O. Beauvallet (ed.), Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la justice pénale internationale [Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Criminal Justice] (Berger Levrault, 2017), pp. 869 – 870 [in French]
“Torture” [Torture], in O. Beauvallet (ed.), Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la justice pénale internationale [Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Criminal Justice] (Berger Levrault, 2017), pp. 926 – 927 [in French]
“Werle, Gerhard”, in Y. S. Shemshuchenko and V. N. Denisov (eds.), Entsyklopediya mizhnarodnogo prava [Encyclopaedia of International Law], in 3 volumes, volume 1 (Kyiv, 2014), pp. 375 – 379 [in Ukrainian] – with V. N. Denisov
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH
“The Yanukovych Trial in Ukraine: A Revival of the Crime of Aggression?”, in 50 Israel Yearbook on Human Rights (2020), pp.
“Why a Crimes against Humanity Convention from a Perspective of Post-Soviet States?”, in 6 African Journal of International Criminal Justice (2020), pp. 125 – 135
“Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind in the Revised Edition of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan”, in 45 Review of Central and East European Law (2020), pp. 36 – 58
“The Implementation of Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind in the Penal Legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan”, in 10 Asian Journal of International Law (2020), pp. 1 – 11
“Critical Analysis, Strict Discipline and Personal Responsibility”: Some Reflections on Strengthening the Independence of the Judiciary in Central Asia”, in Law and State, 3 (84), December 2019, pp. 18 – 27
“Réflexions sur le renforcement de l’indépendance de la magistrature en Asie centrale” [“Reflections on the Reinforcement of the Independence of the Judiciary in Central Asia], in 14 Les Cahiers de la justice, 2019/4, pp. 655 – 665
“The General Principles of International Criminal Law in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan”, in 9 Asian Journal of International Law (2019), pp. 1 – 9
“The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 68/262 in the Context of General International Law”, in 2 Evropsky politicky a pravni diskurz (2015), pp. 19 – 30
“The Compatibility of the Rome Statute’s Draft Definition of the Crime of Aggression with National Criminal Justice Systems”, in 81 Revue internationale de droit pénal (2010), pp. 165 – 188
“A Short Tribute to Professor Raphael Lemkin (1900 – 1959)”, in 7 Journal of International Criminal Justice (2009), pp. 1149 – 1152
“Raphael Lemkin: a Tribute”, in 20 European Journal of International Law (2009), pp. 1157 – 1162
“International Law and the Use of Force: from the Charter of the United Nations to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court”, in 15 Asian Yearbook of International Law (2009), pp. 3 – 42
“The International Committee of the Red Cross and International Human Rights Law”, in 9 Human Rights Law Review (2009), 95 – 126
“Revisiting the Definition of the Crime of Aggression”, in 22 Humanitäres Völkerrecht – Informationsschriften (2009), pp. 21 – 29
“A Development in International Law or a Misnomer: Who is the Combatant Adversary Referred to in Article 8(2)(e)(ix) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court?”, in 21 Humanitäres Völkerrecht – Informationsschriften (2008), pp. 130 – 133
“The Definition of the Crime of Aggression for the Purpose of the International Criminal Court: Problems and Perspectives”, in 13 Journal of Conflict and Security Law (2008), pp. 333 – 352
“A Great Unknown”: the Definition of Aggression Revisited”, in 17 Michigan State Journal of International Law (2008), pp. 375 – 398
“The Varvarin Case: Compensation Impossible?”, in 3 Journal of Military Ethics (2004), pp. 188 – 193
“The Application of the Fair Trial Guarantees to Alleged Terrorists in Non-International Armed Conflicts”, in 17 Humanitäres Völkerrecht – Informationsschriften (2004), pp. 152 – 159
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