Researchers and research fellows

Dr. Stuart Casey-Maslen

Head of Research
 

Stuart Casey-Maslen is Head of Research at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. He is an international lawyer specialising in weapons law and the international law of law enforcement. He has written a commentary on the 1997 Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention and co-edited a commentary on the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, both published by Oxford University Press. He has edited a book on weapons under international human rights law and is co-editing a book on nuclear weapons under international law, both due to be published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press.

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Thomas Unger

Researcher
 

Thomas Unger is currently working as a researcher on transitional justice and as an adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence. Thomas Unger has worked before as a legal adviser to the Austrian Foreign Ministry on human rights and international humanitarian law. He was also engaged as a senior associate with the International Center for Transitional Justice. He has been working as a legal system monitor with the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, as well as a legal clerk with the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICTY.
 

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Dr. Irene Biglino

Research Fellow

Irene Biglino is a Research Fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and member of the Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. She is currently working on the Swiss Network for International Studies sponsored project on “Large Scale Land Acquisitions in Southeast Asia: Rural Transformations between Global Agendas and Peoples’ Right to Food”.
 

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Dr.Ioana Cismas

Law Clinic Coordinator

Dr. Ioana Cismas is the coordinator of the Law Clinic at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. She is also a consultant at the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, working on the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence.

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Dr. Mina Rauschenbach

Research Fellow


Mina Rauschenbach is as a Research Fellow at the Academy. She is working on an interdisciplinary research project about the perspective of the accused of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Her main research areas concern justice perceptions and social representations, intergroup processes in international conflicts and attributions of responsibility in the legal context, as well as the issues of victims and their experience of justice and restorative justice.

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Dr.Gilles Giacca

Researcher and Teaching Assistant

Gilles Giacca is currently researcher and teaching assistant at the Academy. His main research area are related to economic, social and cultural rights in armed conflict situations, international law and armed non state actors, legal developments regarding the negotiation of a future Arms Trade Treaty, and the implementation of the rule of law in armed conflicts (RULAC Project).

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Rachelle Kouassi

Researcher

Kouassi Rachelle works with Dr. Frank Haldemann on the research project of the Geneva Academy of International Law and Human Rights entitled "Historical Injustices, Reparations and International Law". She is currently a PhD student in Law at the University of Geneva, under the joint direction of Professor Paola Gaeta and Dr. Frank Haldemann.

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Marina Mattirolo

Researcher 

Marina Mattirolo is a researcher with the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. Her main research area concerns reactions by armed non-state actors to international norms.Prior to joining the Academy she worked for the International Commission of Jurists as an associate legal adviser.

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