Breakfast Briefing with Aloka Wanigasuriya

The Investigation and Prosecution of International Crimes: The Situations in Georgia and Ukraine

Abstract

This presentation will focus on the investigation of core international crimes in Georgia and Ukraine. Focusing on the activities of the International Criminal Court as well as national developments, it will highlight key factors that hold significance for the investigation and prosecution of international crimes both at the domestic and international level. In doing so, it will compare the trajectory of the situations, discuss lessons learned and engage with what can be envisioned for the future with a view of the impact of these two situations on the larger international criminal justice project.

About the speaker

Aloka is an assistant professor at the Department of Law, University of Southern Denmark, and completed a PhD project at the University of Copenhagen in 2022, which investigated the impact of the International Criminal Court in Ukraine and Georgia. Aloka is an Australian qualified lawyer who has previously been affiliated with the University of Newcastle (Australia), Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, Lund University (Faculty of Law), Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights, the Danish Institute for Human Rights, and Special Court for Sierra Leone (Trial Chamber II, Prosecutor v Taylor). Aloka’s research interests lie within the fields of international criminal justice, public international law and international human rights law.

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