Dr Sergey Sayapin

Dr Sergey Sayapin is Associate Professor and Associate Dean at KIMEP University´s School of Law (Almaty, Kazakhstan). He teaches and researches in the areas of international and criminal law, international institutions and humanitarian action, 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. He is the author, co-author and co-editor of nine books and about fifty book chapters and academic articles on the legal regulation of the use of force, international criminal law, humanitarian action, and legal pedagogy. 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 sub-editor for Central Asia of the Brill Encyclopedia of International Law in Asia.