Professor Mia Swart: "Judicial Interpretation at the ICC: Article 21 and the differences with the ad hoc Tribunals"

Mia Swart is an Assistant Professor in Public International Law and Global Justice at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. Her research interests include transitional justice, international criminal law and comparative constitutional law. She is currently focusing on apartheid reparations. Professor Swart studied law at the University of Cape Town (LLB) and obtained an LLM from Humboldt University (Berlin) in 1999. She was admitted as an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 2001. In 2001, she also interned in the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. In December 2006, she obtained a PhD from Leiden University under the supervision of Professor John Dugard, where her thesis focused on the topic of judicial lawmaking at the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunals. She was funded by the Huygens and Mandela scholarships. In 2007 and 2009, she received a Humboldt research fellowship to conduct research at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg and at Humboldt University. She is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand and a research associate of the South African Institute of Advanced Constitutional, Public and International Law (SAIFAC). She publishes widely and regularly comments in the media. Her work was cited by the Appeals Chamber in one of the first decisions of the International Criminal Court.