It is our great pleasure to introduce our new IntLawGrrls contributor Annegret L. Hartig!  Annegret works as a research assistant for Prof. Dr. Florian Jessberger in the field of international criminal law at University of Hamburg. She is currently in charge of the revision process of his textbook on international criminal law and conducts research for the chapters on the crime of aggression, immunities, modes of liability as well as international criminal law in practice. Moreover, she is one of the contributors to the “Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals” by André Klip and Steven Freeland. Besides that, she is writing her PhD thesis on the national implementations of the crime of aggression. Before working as a research assistant, she studied law within the trinational study program “European Law School” at the Humboldt University of Berlin where she passed her First State Exam. Additionally, she holds a maîtrise en droit in European Law (Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris) and a LL.M. in International Criminal Law (University of Amsterdam / Columbia University). Her master thesis dealt with the question whether the differentiated system of liability in the Rome Statute should be replaced with a unitary model. At the 16th session of the Assembly of States Parties, she had the chance follow the negotiations on the activation of the International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression.

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It is our great pleasure to introduce our new IntLawGrrls contributor Eithne Dowds! Eithne is a lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research intersects the areas of international criminal law, feminist legal theory, sexual offences and children born of sexual violence in conflict. Eithne is particularly interested in feminist strategies in international criminal law and the extent to which developments at the international criminal level might bear relevance to domestic law on sexual offences.

Eithne completed her PhD in 2017, which examined the role of consent in an international criminal definition of rape. In particular, it focused on the definition at the International Criminal Court and whether the definition could facilitate ‘positive’ norm transfer from the international to the domestic. She is in the process of turning her thesis into a book which will be published by Hart in 2019.

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 It is our great pleasure to introduce Katrina Natale to IntLawGrrls! Katrina has been a clinical teaching fellow with the International Human Rights Law Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law since 2015. In her time with the clinic, Katrina has taught and supervised students working on a wide range of human rights issues in both the United States and abroad employing diverse methodologies. Her work has ranged from assisting UN special procedures mandate holders to respond to individual complaints to collaborating on empirical research exploring access to justice and victim rights for family survivors of homicide in Oakland. With the clinic, she has had a hand in issuing reports on human rights violations experienced by tipped workers in the U.S. restaurant industry and on closing space for women human rights defenders. Her interests include international criminal law, humanitarian law, sexual and gender-based violence, victim rights, and transitional justice.

Prior to joining the clinic, Katrina worked on human rights issues in Cambodia for nearly 5 years. She conducted research on sexual and gender-based sexual violence under the Khmer Rouge regime and, later, served as the in-country legal coordinator for the Center for Justice and Accountability and as a legal officer in the Civil Party Lead Co-Lawyers Section of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Before attending law school, Katrina worked with a number of grassroots, social justice organizations on issues of human rights, transitional justice, and domestic and sexual violence both in the United States and abroad.

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It is our great pleasure to welcome Fizza Batool to IntLawGrrls! Fizza Batool is a Fellow for the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute for the 2017-2018 year. She assists the Institute with various international law research projects including the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, a multi-year rule of law project to study the need for a global treaty on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity. She graduated magna cum laude from Saint Louis University with a double major in Criminal Justice and Legal Studies, and graduated from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law in 2017. In 2016 she traveled to The Hague, The Netherlands as the Dagen-Legomsky Hague Fellow to study public international law at The Hague Academy. She served as an Executive Articles Editor of the Global Studies Law Review, which published her Student Note entitled Exile and Election: The Case for Barring Exiled Leaders from Contesting in National Elections.

During law school at Washington University, Fizza was a summer legal intern for the Missouri State Public Defender’s Office in its Capital and Appellate divisions. She also worked as a judicial extern for the Honorable Judge Noce of the Eastern District of Missouri and as a legal intern to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Missouri. Her research interests include international and domestic criminal law, international human rights law, and international state arbitration.

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It is our great pleasure to introduce three new IntLawGrrls contributors!

 

 

Camila Gianella Msc, PhH has worked as researcher and consultant for projects on sexual an reproductive rights, the right to health, tuberculosis, mental health and transitional justice. She has also as a counselor in HIV and Tuberculosis services, and with asylum seekers. Gianella is working as a researcher at Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway.

 

 

Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado has Master’s (2004) and PhD (2007) degrees in Philosophy and Theory of Law at University of Sao Paulo. Since 2007, Marta has been a full time professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School in Sao Paulo, a researcher at the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP), and a global fellow at the Centre on Law & Social Transformation (CMI/ Univ of Bergen).

 

 

María Angélica Peñas Defago has a PhD in Law and Social Sciences, National Universityof Cordoba (UNC), Argentina. Assistant Professor of Legal Sociology, School of Law, National University of Cordoba. Researcher and Professor in the Sexual and Reproductive Rights Program, School of Law, UNC. Post-doctorate Fellow of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, Argentina (CONICET / CIJS-UNC).

 

 

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It is our great pleasure to introduce our new IntLawGrrls contributor Nicole Bürli! Dr. Nicole Bürli is a senior human rights adviser of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) in Geneva. She is in charge of the organization’s advocacy, litigation, and training projects in Asia, most notably Pakistan and Afghanistan and specializes on the prohibition of torture, sexual and gender based crimes, and access to remedies.

Prior to joining the OMCT, Dr. Bürli worked in academic teaching and research, namely as a research associate at the University of Zurich and as a visiting fellow at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge. She graduated with a Master Degree in law from the University of Bern and holds a Doctoral Degree in law from the University of Zurich. Her doctoral research was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science.

She has published on issues including torture and other ill-treatment, non-refoulement, and on proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights. She has just published the monograph Third-party Interventions before the European Court of Human Rights (Intersentia 2017).

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It is our pleasure to introduce our new IntLawGrrls contributor Frauke Renz! Frauke currently is pursuing her PhD in public international law with a focus on state responsibility and new trends in warfare, in particular the privatization of security and the development of autonomous weapons systems.

She previously was a Visiting Researcher at the East-West Center and at the Georgetown University Law Center and is a Non-Resident Fellow with the Pacific Forum CSIS. Frauke has worked in academia and the private sector in Asia, Europe and the U.S. and is founder of the consulting company IR.Asia. She holds a summa cum laude Master of Law from the University of Bern as well as a Master in International Relations with distinction from Tsinghua University in Beijing. Her research focus ranges from public international law, international humanitarian law, private international law and law of the sea to the nexus between international law and international relations.

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It is our pleasure to introduce our new IntLawGrrls contributor Mary Dahdouh! Mary is a third-year law student at UC Berkeley School of Law and one of the International Human Rights Law Clinic students who drafted the working paper, Achieving Gender Parity on International Judicial and Monitoring Bodies: Analysis of International Human Rights Laws and Standards Relevant to the GQUAL Campaign.

At Berkeley Law, Mary has worked on human rights issues in the Middle East and North Africa with Human Rights Watch and on international human rights impact litigation with the Center for Justice & Accountability. She has also advocated for the resettlement and protection of refugees and displaced persons globally with the International Refugee Assistance Project. Prior to coming to law school, Mary received her B.A. in journalism and political philosophy from the University of Houston and worked as a freelance reporter with the Houston Chronicle.

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It is our pleasure to introduce our new IntLawGrrls contributor Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen! Hilly is a senior lecturer of public international law at The Academic Center of Law and Science (Sha’arei Mishpat College) in Israel. She obtained her LL.D. from the law faculty of the Hebrew University (2007). She has an M.A. in philosophy (Magna Cum Laude) from Tel Aviv University (2001), an LL.B. from the Interdisciplinary Center of Herzlyia (2000), and a B.A. in humanities from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1996). Her research and teaching focus on international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and philosophical-juridical interdisciplinary scholarship.

Hilly published two books: National Identities and the Right to Self -Determination of Peoples: “Civic- Nationalism- Plus” in Israel and Other Multinational States (Brill/Nijhoff, 2016) and Terrorism and International Law: Combatants and Civilians in Modern Battlefields (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2010). Her other publications in scientific journals have dealt with such issues as the duties of occupying states, targeted killings, child terrorists, and women as victims of sexual crimes in armed conflicts.

In addition to teaching, Hilly lectures extensively on her scholarly work both at academic conferences and before practitioners in the fields of law. In June 2011, she was invited by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict to speak before states representatives in the UN offices on her research on child terrorists. Since 2010, Hilly is a member of the International Law Association (ILA) study group on the use of domestic law principles for the development of international law. She also served as a judge in moot courts and in September 2016, she served as jury member (judge) on the prestigious annual competition in International Humanitarian Law in Israel, organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), for which most prominent experts in the field are chosen to serve as judges.

She dedicates her contribution to the artist Frida Kahlo. Hilly writes:

Frida Kahlo is both a cutting -edge artist and a role model for feminists and minority groups. As a successful idiosyncratic woman in a field that was for a long time dominated by men, Kahlo is an inspiration for me in my academic research in international humanitarian law and international criminal law- fields that not so long ago were also dominated by male scholars. Just as Kahlo gave expression in her work to the female voice and experience, I believe that women should write and research those fields of law, voicing their insights and their perspectives.

 

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It is our great pleasure to welcome our new IntLawGrrls contributor Ashley Boyes! Specializing in international law, oral advocacy, and development, Ashley recently attained a combined Juris Doctor at the University of Ottawa and Masters degree at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. She is now completing her articles with the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General Crown Law Office – Civil.

In 2016, Ashley was given the opportunity to work with the U.N. Special Rapporteur on adequate housing. In January 2017, she interned at the War Crimes Research Office in Washington, DC. Most recently, she attended the 17th specialization course in international criminal law in Syracuse, Italy.

She is passionate about the role of civil society organizations and hopes to continue to advocate for others as her career progresses.

Ashley also holds an Honours B.A. in Political Science and Global Culture Studies from Brescia University College at Western University, Canada’s only women’s university, with a focus on international relations and women’s security.

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