Cóman Kenny

DPhil Law (Part-time)

Biography

Cóman Kenny is a part-time DPhil in Law candidate at the Faculty of Law and works as a Legal Officer investigating serious international crimes with the United Nations. His research focuses on the crime of extermination in international law.

Cóman is a barrister admitted to practice in Ireland. He has previously served as a prosecution lawyer at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, the International Criminal Court, and the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and as a defence lawyer at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He has also worked as a Legal Adviser to NGOs, including on a rule of law project in Libya.

Cóman holds an LLM (cum laude) in Public International Law from Leiden University in the Netherlands and an LLB from the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Publications

Journal Article (11)

Kenny C and Farr T, ‘The International Criminal Court’s Opportunity to Correct the Erroneous Interpretation of the Mens Rea for Genocide’ (2024) 46(1) Human Rights Quarterly 25

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Kenny C, ‘Prosecutor V. Dominic Ongwen’ (2024) 118(1) American Journal of International Law 153

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Kenny C, ‘Legislated Out of Existence: Mass Arbitrary Deprivation of Nationality Resulting in Statelessness As an International Crime’ (2020) 20(6) International Criminal Law Review 1026

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Kenny C and McDermott Y, ‘THE EXPANDING PROTECTION OF MEMBERS OF A PARTY’S OWN ARMED FORCES UNDER INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW’ (2019) 68(04) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 943

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Kenny C, ‘Jurisprudence Continues to Evolve’ (2018) 16(3) Journal of International Criminal Justice 623

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Kenny C, ‘Prosecuting Crimes of International Concern: Islamic State at the ICC?’ (2017) 33(84) Utrecht Journal of International and European Law 120

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Kenny C, ‘Responsibility to Recommend: The Role of the UN General Assembly in the Maintenance of International Peace and Security’ (2016) 3(1) Journal on the Use of Force and International Law 3

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Kenny C and Malik N, ‘Trafficking Terror and Sexual Violence: Accountability for Human Trafficking and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence by Terrorist Groups under the Rome Statute’ 52(1) Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 43

Kenny C and Koumjian N, ‘Specific Direction: The ICTY’s ’Novel’ Attempt to Regulate State Action’ 8 The Irish Yearbook of International Law 3

Kenny C and Butler S, ‘The Legality of ‘Intervention by Invitation’ in Situations of R2P Violations’ 51 NYU Journal of International Law & Policy 135

Kenny C and Koumjian N, ‘Prosecutor V Perišić’ 56 Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals