Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier
is currently research fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden and associate researcher at the School of Humanities, University of Nottingham. She received her Ph.D. at Erasmus University Rotterdam and has conducted research as postdoctoral fellow in the erc project Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia (cotca) in Nottingham (2019–2021) and at the Forum Transregionale Studien and ici Institute of Cultural Inquiry in Berlin (2018–2019). She has contributed to essays collection, exhibition catalogues, and journals such as International Criminal Law Review, South East Asia Research, and Media, Culture & Society, and she is now working on her first monograph, ‘Beyond Skulls: Western Visual Culture and the Cambodian Genocide’.
James Burnham Sedgwick
is an Associate Professor in the Department of History & Classics at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia (Canada), more appropriately understood as Mi’kma’ki, the unceded ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq nation. An international historian of global governance and mass violence, his research explores catastrophe and response: how individual and institutional solutions to transnational crises shape international relations, how social networks, lived experiences, and emotions inform humanitarianism and advocacy, and how the inner-workings of international organisations – especially legal proceedings – affect their outcomes. He has published in multiple fields including law, international relations, history, and Asian studies.
Emma J. Breeze
is an assistant professor in international criminal law at the University of Birmingham. She is an interdisciplinary researcher focussing on technological challenges to law during armed conflict. Her research engages with international criminal law, international humanitarian law, transnational criminal law and criminal law more generally. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham under the supervision of Professor Robert Cryer and Dr. Alexander Orakhelashvili in June 2020. She has previously held an esrc Impact Acceleration Post-Doctoral Fellowship to develop impact from her Ph.D. This resulted in a policy briefing concerning the three-fold increase in the use of drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) by law enforcement in England and Wales. She has worked with several interdisciplinary research groups, including the
Randle C. DeFalco
is an Assistant Professor at Widener University Delaware Law School. Prior to joining Widener, he taught at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law, was a Fulbright Fellow in Cambodia, and a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Invisible Atrocities: The Aesthetic Biases of International Criminal Justice (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2022).
Yehudit Dori-Deston
is a postdoctoral researcher at the Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights, Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of the books The Last Trial: The Demjanjuk Trial and the End of Nazi Prosecution in Israel (The Hebrew University Magnes press, forthcoming 2024) (in Hebrew) and Der Demjanjuk-Prozess (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Schriften des Dubnow-Instituts, Bd. 35, Göttingen, forthcoming 2024) (in German).
Mark A. Drumbl
is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor at Washington and Lee University, School of Law, where he also serves as Director of the University’s Transnational Law Institute. He has held visiting appointments and has taught intensive courses at law schools world-wide, including Queen’s University Belfast, Oxford University (University College), Université de Paris ii (Panthéon-Assas), Free University of Amsterdam, University of Ottawa, University of Melbourne, John Cabot University in Rome, and Masaryk University. He wrote Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy (Oxford University Press, 2012), and co-edited (with Dr. Jastine Barrett) the Research Handbook on Child Soldiers (Elgar, 2019). He is currently authoring Informers Up Close: Stories from Communist Prague (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024, with Barbora Holá) and co-editing Children and Violence: Agency, Experience and Representation in and beyond Armed Conflict (Routledge, 2024).
Maria Elander
is a senior lecturer and the director of graduate research at La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University, Australia. Her research is in the fields of international
Javier S. Eskauriatza
is Assistant Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Nottingham School of Law where he convenes the undergraduate core module in criminal law. He also teaches a specialist postgraduate module on critical approaches to criminal justice, and he is the convenor of the Criminal Law and Criminal Justice sub-section for the Society of Legal Scholars (UK). Javier’s research focuses on inter/trans/national crimes in the context of the US–Mexico ‘drug war’. In this regard, he has received funding from the British Academy and UK Research and Innovation to explore the intersection between popular culture, crime, aesthetic theory, and international law.
Audrey Fino
ll.d., MSc., is Lecturer in international humanitarian, human rights and public international law at the University of Groningen. She is also Ph.D. Researcher on limitations to freedom of expression in international criminal and human rights law. Her career spans over twenty-five years. She has worked, for instance, in Chambers at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the Extraordinary Chambers for the Courts of Cambodia, and at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. She is also published and holds a number of professional certifications. She is a member of the American Bar Association’s Expert Advisory Group on ‘International Criminal Law Standards for Practitioners,’ the Asser Institute’s International Humanitarian and Criminal Law Platform, the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research, and a Founding Member of the Netherlands Universities’ Law Clinicians Network. She is admitted to the bar in Malta.
Kirsten J. Fisher
is Associate Professor of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. She works on issues of transitional justice, post-conflict social reconstruction, and theories of international criminal law. Much of her research is grounded in field research in northern Uganda where she explores accountability for crimes committed by and against former child soldiers, the passage
Caroline Fournet
is Professor of Law at the University of Exeter. She is editor-in-chief of the International Criminal Law Review (Brill) and one of the co-editors of the academic journal Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Manchester University Press). In 2016, she took up a Visiting Professional position in Chambers at the International Criminal Court. Her current research focuses on the dual use of forensic evidence in the investigation and prosecution of mass violence crimes on the one hand and in the identification of victims and the building of post-atrocity memory on the other. Together with Mark A. Drumbl, she has published the blog post ‘The Judicialized Infirmary: The Aesthetics of Prosecuting the Barely Alive’ in Legal Sightseeing (2019). Following a workshop of experts they co-convened (Groningen, 2022), they co-edited a double special issue on ‘The Visualities and Aesthetics of Prosecuting Aged Defendants’ (22[1–2] International Criminal Law Review [2022]).
Shannon Fyfe
is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at George Mason University, where she is also a Fellow in the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, and an Adjunct Professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School. She holds both a Ph.D. in philosophy and a j.d. from Vanderbilt University. Her main research interests are in legal philosophy, ethics, and political philosophy, with a particular focus on international conflict and accountability. She published International Criminal Tribunals: A Normative Defense (with Larry May) with Cambridge University Press in 2017.
Kevin Hearty
is a Lecturer in Criminology at the School of Social Sciences, Education & Social Work (ssesw) and a fellow of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security & Justice, Queen’s University Belfast. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Transitional Justice Institute (tji) Ulster University, and previously held post-doctoral positions at the University of Warwick and qub Law School. Having published extensive interdisciplinary and socio-legal research on the legacy of state violence in the North of Ireland, his research interests include victimology, transitional justice, human rights and state violence.
is Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (nscr) and Associate Professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She has an interdisciplinary focus and studies international criminal justice, societal reconstruction after atrocities, and the etiology of collective violence. Barbora has published extensively on these subjects and has presented as an expert at international conferences and universities in Europe, Australia, Africa and the Americas. Barbora co-edited the Perpetrators of International Crimes: Theories, Methods and Evidence (oup, 2018), and the Oxford Handbook on Atrocity Crimes (oup, 2022). Currently, she is working with Mark Drumbl on a book (under contract with oup), which focuses on informing in communist Czechoslovakia.
Agnieszka Jachec-Neale
Ph.D., University of Staffordshire, is an expert researcher with practical insight into how international law is applied during armed conflict and in transitional environments. Her specialisms include the targeting and conduct of hostilities in armed conflicts, the relationship between international humanitarian law and international criminal law, and the role of music in legal change and in the commission of violence. Agnieszka has most recently served as Head of the Law School at Staffordshire University; prior to that she was Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter. She previously worked at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the School of Oriental and Asian Studies, the University of Essex and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and in the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Before embarking on the academic career, Agnieszka spent five years working with the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe in South-East Europe, where she monitored domestic war crimes trials and compliance with human rights standards in emerging democracies.
Annika Jones
is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Exeter, where she researches in the fields of international criminal law, public international law and international human rights law. Her research addresses aspects of international criminal procedure, including the impact of efficiency-building on the nature and function of international criminal courts and tribunals, and interactions between different institutions in the adjudication of international crimes. Annika has worked in the Appeals and Trial Chambers of the International Criminal Court. Her previous roles also include contribution to
Hanna Luise Kroll
studied German and Comparative Literature, Art History and Musicology in Dresden, Göttingen and Budapest. From 2020 to 2023, she worked as a doctoral fellow at the dfg-funded Collaborative Research Center 1385 ‘Law and Literature’ at the University of Münster, Germany, in the interdisciplinary project ‘Show-Trials. Dramatizing the Law as Social Practice’, led by Stefan Arnold and Kerstin Wilhelms. Her Ph.D. project investigates theatrical productions staging the nsu trial, a media-effective criminal trial against a member and four supporters of an extreme-right terrorist organization that took place in Germany in the 2010s. The project addresses the theatre’s means to politicize the law by reflecting on how law as performative is being ‘done’ in a trial.
Aman Kumar
is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Australian National University, Canberra. Through his works, Aman is trying to understand and explain how international law was used as a tool to colonise India. His interest lies in the specific way in which colonial trials were used to appropriate sovereignty from the natives. His works also aim to highlight the colonial biases inherent in the field of international criminal law. Aman is an alumnus of the South Asian University (ll.m.) and the National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam (ballb).
Carola Lingaas
is an Associate Professor in Law at vid Specialized University in Oslo where she leads an interdisciplinary research group. She holds a Ph.D. in international criminal law and an ll.m. from the University of Oslo and a master in law from the University of Zürich (Switzerland). For more than seven years, Carola worked for the Red Cross, in Norway and South Sudan (icrc). Carola’s research is split into three different strands. The first deals with international criminal law, foremost genocide. Here, she explores group identities,-conflicts, and-theories as well as socio-legal perspectives on genocide, othering, and dehumanization. Her monograph The Concept of Race in International Criminal Law was published by Routledge (2019). The second strand examines indigenous rights, reconciliation processes, and reparations, from a perspective of the Norwegian Sámi. The third strand is in human rights law, where she researched issues of migration, child protection, and forced labour. Her research has been published, among others, in the International Criminal Law Review, Journal of Genocide Research, Genocide Studies and Prevention, and
Sebastián Machado
holds an ll.b. (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia), ll.m. (University of Cambridge, UK), and a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne where he was a Doctoral Fellow in the Laureate Program of International Law. Sebastian previously served in the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Colombia; as Senior Advisor in International Law for the Attorney General, and as a member of the governmental negotiating team with the National Liberation Army (eln) of Colombia. Formerly a professor of international law and legal theory in both public and private universities, including the Superior War Academy of Colombia, he is the author of several publications in English and Spanish in the fields of legal theory, peacebuilding, and international law. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Helsinki.
Kieran McEvoy
is the Senator George J. Mitchell Chair of Peace Justice and Security and a Professor of Law and Transitional Justice at Queens University Belfast. He has authored or co-authored four books, co-edited eight books or special issues, a four volume Handbook of Transitional Justice and over seventy journal articles and scholarly book chapters. He has conducted research in over a dozen conflicted or transitional countries on topics including truth recovery, amnesties, apologies, victims, ex-combatants, restorative justice and lawyers. His prize-winning publications include the British Criminology book of the year award and the Socio-Legal Studies Association article of the year (×3). He has been Principle Investigator or Co-Investigator on 10 ukri-funded projects and is currently a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow (2023–26). He has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Vera Piovesan
is teaching fellow in international criminal law at Durham Law School. Her research interests lie at the intersection of international criminal law and anthropology. Vera holds a Ph.D. and a master’s degree in international law from the Geneva Graduate Institute and a combined bachelor’s and master’s degree in law from Bocconi University, Milan. She has completed study and research stays at Harvard Law School, ucla School of Law, and the University of Otago. Vera has worked in various capacities at the Global Migration Centre,
Dragana Spencer
is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Law and Criminology, University of Greenwich. She holds a Ph.D. in International Criminal Law and her research interests and teaching practice lie in international criminal law, international human rights and the rule of law. Specifically, her areas of expertise are in procedures and practices of international criminal courts and tribunals with a focus on defence rights and sentencing practices. She has published widely on various aspects of international and transitional criminal justice and has been a recipient of the Peter Harris Research Grant for her research on language rights in war crimes trials. She advises (intra)governmental bodies and non-governmental agencies in the UK and abroad on international criminal law, human rights and transitional justice.
Jara Streuer
is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Münster in Germany, where she also received her Doctoral degree in criminal law.
Adriana Taboada
is Psychologist (uba), and Researcher at the Center for Genocide Studies of the National University of Tres de Febrero (untref). She is a member of the Observatory of State Crimes (oce) of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the uba and of the Team of Sociological Assistance to Complaints (easq) of the Sociology Department of the same university. She works as an expert psychologist in cases of crimes against humanity.
Konstantinos P. Tsinas
is a Lecturer in Law, at the University of Cyprus, Department of Law. He teaches Criminal Procedure, International Criminal Law, Evidence, Legal Logic, Jurisprudence and Legal Method. He holds a Ph.D. in Law (University of Athens, Greece), an ll.m. Degree in ‘Criminal Law and Procedure’ (University of Athens) and a M.Phil. Degree in ‘History & Philosophy of Science and Technology’ (National Technical University of Athens). He studied Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and stayed in Germany (Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.), while working on his doctoral thesis. Before entering academia in Cyprus in 2020, he has also taught courses at Greek Universities and has worked for several years as a criminal defense attorney. Dr. Tsinas has published two books and several papers, on subjects concerning
Moritz Vormbaum
is Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and International Criminal Law at the University of Münster (Germany). Before assuming his current position, he was Senior Researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, as well as a coordinator and lecturer at the South African-German Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice.
Kerstin Wilhelms
is a lecturer and researcher in the field of Modern Literature and Theatre at the University of Münster, Germany. After studying Germanics, Philosophy, and Politics in Münster, she published her first monograph on spatio-temporal structures in life narratives from 18th century literature to contemporary social media profiles (2017). Since then, she has been working on her second book on political scenarios in theatre. From 2019–2023 she was a p.i. in the collaborative research centre ‘Recht und Literatur’ at the University of Münster, in which context the current study emerged. Her publications in the field of law and literature inter alia deal with late prosecutions of Nazi crimes and with theatre stagings of real and fictional trials.
Lior Zylberman
holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires (uba). He is a researcher at conicet and the Center for Genocide Studies at the National University of Tres de Febrero (untref), and a professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism (fadu) of the uba. He has published numerous articles in national and international journals, as well as book chapters on the representation of genocides in cinema, and on the relation between memory and image. He is author and co-editor of the book Narrativas del terror y la desaparición en América Latina (eduntref, 2016) and Genocidio y cine documental (eduntref, 2022).