Stuart Casey-Maslen
Senior Researcher, Head of Scientific Projects
Stuart Casey-Maslen is a Senior Researcher and the head of scientific projects at the Geneva Academy, and a visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg.
He is an academic and practitioner with 30 years’ experience in weapons law, international human rights and humanitarian law, counterterrorism law, disarmament law, and jus ad bellum. He holds a doctorate in international humanitarian law (on landmines) from the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands and master’s degrees in forensic ballistics from Cranfield University and in international human rights law from the University of Essex, both in the United Kingdom.
Among his recent publications are The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-Treatment under International Law, published in 2025 by Cambridge University Press and International Counterterrorism Law, published by Cambridge University Press in 2024. His co-authored commentary on the Arms Trade Treaty will be published by Oxford University Press in its second edition in late 2026.
Resources
Book Launch – ‘Identifying Non-International Armed Conflict’
In-person training: Advanced Weapons Law
War WATCH: A New Platform to Track, Assess and Monitor Armed Conflicts and Civilian Harm
Use of Force in Law Enforcement and the Right to Life: The Role of the Human Rights Council
Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Stuart Casey-Maslen
The Arms Trade Treaty: A Commentary
Oxford University Press
Andrew Clapham, Stuart Casey-Maslen, Gilles Giacca and Sarah Parker
Weapons under International Human Rights Law
Cambridge University Press
Stuart Casey-Maslen
The War Report 2013
Oxford University Press
Stuart Casey-Maslen
The War Report 2012
Oxford University Press
Stuart Casey-Maslen
Rules of Engagement: Protecting Civilians through Dialogue with Armed Non-State Actors
Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Annyssa Bellal, Stuart Casey-Maslen
Règles d'engagement – La protection des civils à travers un dialogue avec les acteurs armés non étatiques
Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Annyssa Bellal, Stuart Casey-Maslen
Reglas del Juego – Cómo proteger a los civiles mediante el diálogo con los actores armados no estatales
Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Annyssa Bellal, Stuart Casey-Maslen