Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops is professor of Politics of International Law by special appointment at the University of Amsterdam and co-founder and Co-Director of the Knopps Innocence Project in Amsterdam. He holds two PhDs, one in criminal law (duress) from the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) and one in international criminal law from the University of Ireland, at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in Galway. He also holds an LLM degree in public international law and international criminal law from the University of Leiden. Since 1994 Professor Knoops has practiced international criminal law as an attorney with Knoops’ International Lawyers in Amsterdam. He has appeared as defense counsel before several international courts, such as the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the International Criminal Court. Professor Knoops is also admitted as defense counsel before the Cambodia Tribunal.