Karolina Aksamitowska

 

Lecturer of International Law

Country: Poland

Academic degrees: LL.B. Law (University of Southampton, UK); LL.M. Legal Research Master (Utrecht University, the Netherlands); PhD thesis defended at Swansea University, UK

Other positions:

Member of the Center for Research on International Criminal Law at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. 

Previous positions: 

Swansea University Research Excellence Scholar (01.2019-12.2021). Research and Teaching Assistant, Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, Utrecht University, the Netherlands (08.2017-08.2018). 

Research areas: International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Human Rights Law. 

Courses: 
International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Maritime Law, Legal Research and Writing, Human Rights Adjudication, Moot Court course.

Notable publications:

  • Karolina Aksamitowska, Iuliia Anosova, Vasilka Sancin, ‘’ (2024) International Criminal Law Review
  • ‘’ in Barrie Sander, Jean-Pierre Gauci (eds.),  (Routledge, 2024)
  • ’ in Patrycja Grzebyk (ed.), International Crimes in National Regulations of Selected States (Polish Institute of Justice 2023) p. 231-246
  • in Florian Jeßberger, Leonie Steinl, Kalika Mehta (eds.), International Criminal Law – A Counter-Hegemonic Project? (Springer 2022), p. 135-152
  •  (2022) Journal of International Criminal Justice, Oxford University Press
  • Karolina Aksamitowska, ‘War Crimes Units: Legislative, Organisational and Technical Lessons’ MATRA Project ‘Strengthening Ukraine’s Capacity to Investigate and Prosecute International Crimes’ (T.M.C. Asser Instituut 2021).  |
  • (2021) 19(1) Journal of International Criminal Justice, Oxford University Press, p. 189-211
  • Karolina Aksamitowska, ‘Judgment on the appeal of Cote d’Ivoire against the decision of Pre-Trial Chamber I of 11 December 2014 entitled “Decision on Cote d’Ivoire’s challenge to the admissibility of the case against Simone Gbagbo’ in André Klip, Steven Freeland (eds.)  (Intersentia 2021),  p. 653−659)
  • (2020) 11(1) Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, Brill, p. 5-35
  • Opinio Juris blog post (book review).
  •  (2017) 33(85) Utrecht Journal of International and European Law p. 1-4

 

Keynote speeches, conference organizations:

  • 13-14.06.2024: Tilburg University, Joined-Up-Justice conference ‘ICC as a Justice Hub, Pragmatic Complementarity and Domestic ICL Enforcement’. Presentation titled: ‘Operationalizing Complementarity in the Context of Joint Investigations Teams’.
  • 19.03.2024: Université Libre de Bruxelles conference on Combating Impunity for Core International Crimes: the EU’s Response to the War in Ukraine and Beyond. Presentation titled: ‘Support to national authorities in combating international core crimes’
  • 19-20.02.2024: University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, ‘EU COST Action CA18228, Global Atrocity Constellations’. Presentation titled: ‘Positive Complementarity in Action’
  • 04.12.2023: Center for Research on International Criminal Law of the Institute of Law Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences & Center for International Criminal Justice at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, ‘Universal Jurisdiction and the Crime of Aggression: the Challenges and Opportunities for JIT Member States’. Presentation titled: ‘International Centre for the Prosecution of Russia's Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine and the Role of New Technologies in International Criminal Investigations’ (speaker & organiser).
  • 19.01.2023: Center for International Criminal Justice, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Lecture Series ‘Accountability for Conflict-Related Crimes in Ukraine’. Presentation titled: ‘War Crimes Units and Domestic Accountability for Core International Crimes’ (invited speaker). 
  • 26.06.2022: The Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, Siracusa, Sicily, Italy. Presentation titled: ‘Evidentiary Challenges in Domestic Core International Crimes Prosecutions’ (invited speaker).
  • 16.03.2022: Utrecht Centre for Global Challenges, Utrecht University, Contesting Governance Platform Seminar Series ‘Russia-Ukraine War: (Dis)information and Challenges of Documenting Hostilities’. Presentation titled: ‘Documenting the Russia-Ukraine War’ (invited speaker). 
  • 23.02.2022: European Human Rights Advocacy Centre, School of Law, Middlesex University, Symposium ‘The Use of Open Source Investigations in Human Rights Litigation’. Presentation titled: ‘Digital Evidence in Domestic International Crimes Prosecutions’ (invited speaker). 
  • 16-17.12.2021: The International Courts and Tribunals Interest Group of the American Society of International Law (ASIL/ICTIG) Conference ‘International Law Without International Courts: Looking to History and Considering the Future’. Presentation titled: ‘International Criminal Law Without the International Criminal Court: The Contribution of Domestic Courts to the Development of International Criminal Law in the Post-Rome Statute Era’ (speaker).
  • 09.11.2021: The Launch of the Special Issue of the Journal of International Criminal Justice on ‘New Technologies and the Investigation of International Crimes’ (speaker).
  • 26-28.10.2021: Asia Justice Coalition Workshop ‘Barriers and Opportunities: Civil Society and Universal Jurisdiction’. Presentation titled: ‘OSINT Investigations and the Professionalization of Civil Society Actors in Pursuing Accountability for Crimes Committed in Syria and Eastern Ukraine’ (invited speaker).
  • 20-22.10.2021: The Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, Siracusa, Sicily, Italy. Presentation titled: ‘The Right to a Fair Trial in Domestic Core International Crimes Proceedings–Revisiting Retributive and Restorative Approaches to Universal Jurisdiction Trials’ (speaker).
  • 21-22.06.2021: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ‘International Criminal Justice –a Counter-Hegemonic Project’. Presentation titled: ‘The ICL is Dead! Long Live ICL! The Counter-Hegemonic Turn to “Entrepreneurial Justice” in International Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions’ (speaker).
  • 14-15.06.2021: Polish Institute of Justice, ‘Penalization of International Crimes in National Law’. Presentation titled: ‘The Domestic Legal Framework for the Prosecution of Core International Crimes in Iraq and Ukraine –A Comparative Perspective’ (speaker).
  • 23.04.2021: British Institute of International and Comparative Law, ‘Teaching International Law Webinar Series’. Presentation titled: ‘In Search for the “Common Ground” –Teaching  International Humanitarian Law to Armed Non-State Actors with the Aid of Ancient African Rules of Warfare’ (speaker). 
  • 14.04.2021: Swansea Festival of Ideas 2021. Presentation titled: ‘Open Source Evidence in International Criminal Prosecutions: Lessons Learned from Germany, Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands’ (invited speaker).
  • 24.03.2021: Polish Academy of Sciences, Center for Research on International Criminal Law Seminar Series. Presentation titled: ‘Domestic Prosecutions of Crimes Committed in Syria and Northern Iraq: Lessons Learned from Germany, Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands’ (keynote).
  • 23.11.2020: Stockholm University, The Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice ‘Investigation and Prosecution of International Crimes in Domestic Courts’. Presentation titled: ‘Evidentiary Challenges in Universal Jurisdiction Cases’ (speaker & co-organiser).