Michiel Pestman is a criminal lawyer specializing in cases with an international dimension. His areas of expertise include terrorism, the intelligence and security services, (international) activism, international humanitarian and criminal law, extradition law, and more recently food litigation. He advises individuals and organizations in the Netherlands and abroad. He has represented clients before the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Yugoslavia Tribunal (ICTY), the Cambodia Tribunal (ECCC), the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) as well as the International Court of Justice in The Hague. He teaches regularly in his fields of expertise and is a Lecturer at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law and the University of Amsterdam.

Michiel Pestman is admitted to practice in the Netherlands and California, USA. 

Jurisdictions

• Human rights
• Criminal law
• Business & Human Rights
• International criminal law

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Publications

• Strafblad, 'Terrorismevervolgingen: een bloemenketting van doornen' (oktober 2016), p. 244-250
• NJB, 'De contra-terroristische bril' (31 oktober 2014), afl. 27, p. 2640

In the media

• Nieuwsuur: 'Het strafrecht wordt hier verkeerd gebruikt', interview (15 februari 2017)
• Het Parool: 'Aangehouden advocaat Michiel Pestman: 'Dit krijgt nog een staartje' (12 november 2016)
• De Volkskrant: 'De jihad in Syrië is absoluut niet strafbaar', interview (14 november 2013) 
• Verslag verblijf Cambodja
• De Volkskrant: 'Piraten verdedigen tussen rebellen', interview (16 oktober 2013)
• Michiel was counsel for defendant Nuon Chea at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia; 'ECCC'). From 2011-2012, he lived in Phnom Penh for this purpose and wrote a monthly column about it for Dutch trade magainze het Advocatenblad. The first column in this series was 'Michiel Pestman vanuit Cambodja', 02 September 2011.