Michael John-Hopkins

Michael John-Hopkins is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Oxford Brookes University and a former legal adviser in 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 and co-author of Malign Influence Operations: Psychology, Law, and Strategy (forthcoming, Routledge, 2027).