Michael John-Hopkins

About/Bio

Michael John-Hopkins is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Oxford Brookes University and previously worked with the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), where he worked on the Milošević case. His work at the Tribunal focused on command responsibility, propaganda, and the evidentiary analysis of complex atrocity crimes. His research addresses international humanitarian law, international criminal law, hybrid threats, and the information environment, and has published on legal, military, intelligence and leadership aspects of atrocity crimes, transitional justice and statecraft, human rights and good governance. He is the author of Rule of Law in Crisis and Conflict Grey Zones (Routledge 2016) and Malign Influence Operations: Psychology, Law, and Strategy (forthcoming, Routledge, 2027).

Recently Published

Eurovision, Non-Recognition and Bangaranga?!

Bulgaria won the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna with Dara’s “Bangaranga”; Israel finished second; and five countries, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Iceland, stayed away in protest at Israel’s participation. That combination, spectacle, boycott and contested belonging, is a useful entry point into a wider legal problem. Eurovision is not the United…

Read more