4 October 2022

New visitor at CECS - Aloka Wanigasuriya

Aloka WanigasuriyaAloka Wanigasuriya is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Law and Social Justice at Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle (Australia). Their current research focuses on accountability avenues relating to the Russia-Ukraine war. Aloka previously obtained their PhD from the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen conducting a project investigating the impact of the International Criminal Court in Ukraine and Georgia. 

Aloka is an Australian qualified lawyer who has previously worked at Lund University (Faculty of Law), the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights, the Danish Institute for Human Rights, and at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Trial Chamber II, Prosecutor v. Taylor). In the past, Aloka has been a visiting researcher at the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University (Australia), Lund University (Sweden), and at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law (Luxembourg).

Their research interests lie within the fields of international criminal law, international humanitarian law and public international law.

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