Antonio Coco

Dr Antonio Coco is a Senior Lecturer at Essex Law School, University of Essex, specializing in public international law, particularly the legal implications of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and cyberspace. Dr Coco is a founding member of the Oxford Process on International Law Protections in Cyberspace and serves on the Sino-European (China-EU) Expert Working Group on the Application of International Law in Cyberspace. His monograph, "The Defence of Mistake of Law in International Criminal Law: A Study on Ignorance and Blame", was published by Oxford University Press in 2022. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and is admitted to practice law in Italy.

Al Hassan Symposium – The Defences of Duress and Mistake of Law in the Al Hassan Trial Judgment

By Antonio Coco / February 17, 2025

The verdict in the trial of Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud (‘Al Hassan’) by the International Criminal Court (ICC) has sparked significant debate. Al Hassan, a former commissioner of the Islamic police during the occupation of Timbuktu by the armed groups Ansar Dine and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), faced …

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