Dr. Maria Varaki

Dr. Maria Varaki is a Greek lawyer and currently a visiting professional with the Legal Advisory Section of the OTP. She holds a PhD in Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights in Galway and two LLM degrees in International and Comparative Law, one from Tulane University, School of Law and one from New York University, School of Law. Her PhD thesis explored the meaning of interests of justice in article 53 of the Rome Statute and its legal, policy and theoretical implications in the broader context of international criminal law and transitional justice. During the last four years, she has been a reporter for the Oxford Reports on international criminal law, coordinator of the ICC summer course at the Irish Centre for Human Rights and lecturer in public international law and human rights law. She has attended several specialised courses in public international law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law and legal theory, delivered presentations in various fora and participated in international criminal justice projects for Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Additionally, she has worked for the OHCHR in Geneva and the UNHCR in New York. During her postgraduate studies at NYU Law School, she was the research assistant of Prof. Thomas Franck, focusing on the question of genocide in the context of the Bosnia case before the International Court of Justice.