Prof. Alette Smeulers, Dr. Barbora Hola and Dr. Maartje Weerdesteijn: The Selection of Situations by the ICC
Guest lecture:
Alette Smeulers is professor in criminal law and criminology of international crimes at the University of Groningen.
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The prime focus of her research is on the perpetrators and causes of international crimes and the international criminal prosecution thereof. She has studied the transformation process of ordinary people into perpetrators of international crimes and developed a typology of perpetrators of international crimes. In her research she takes an inter- and multidisciplinary approach and can be considered one of the founders of the criminology of international crimes and a leading expert within this field, in which she has published extensively. Important publications are
Supranational Criminology – towards a criminology of international crime(Intersentia 2008) and
International crimes and other gross human rights violations (Martinus Nijhoff 2011). Alette Smeulers has worked at Tilburg University and the VU University where she initiated and was the first director of the master
International Crimes and Criminology. She has also founded and manages the research network on Supranational Criminology.
For more information see:
alettesmeulers.org and
Youtube.com Barbora Hola works as Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR)and as Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at VU University of Amsterdam.
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She has an interdisciplinary focus and studies transitional justice after atrocities, in particular (international) criminal trials, sentencing of international crimes, enforcement of international sentences, rehabilitation of war criminals and life after trial at international criminal tribunals. Barbora has published extensively on these subjects and presented as an expert at international conferences and universities in Europe, Africa and the America's. Barbora is a fellow at the
Center for International Criminal Justice, a knowledge centre dedicated to interdisciplinary studies of mass atrocity crimes and international criminal justice; a member of the Africa-Low Countries Network and a member of the steering group of the Atrocity Crimes and Transitional Justice Working Group of the European Society of Criminology. In 2014, Barbora was a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law Society at UC Berkeley, University of California.
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Maartje Weerdesteijn is a lecturer in the history of international relations at Utrecht University, and in criminology at VU University Amsterdam. She obtained a PhD from Tilburg University, Department of Criminal Law, a Master in International Crimes and Criminology from VU University Amsterdam (Cum Laude), a Bachelor in European Studies from Maastricht University (Cum Laude). In 2014 she was a visiting scholar at Griffith University Australia at the Griffith Asia Institute. Her book "The Rationality of Dictators: Towards a more effective implementation of the responsibility to protect" was recently published by Intersentia.
