Damien Scalia

Damien Scalia is Professor in Criminal and Prison Law at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and invited Professor in International Criminal Law at the Université de Lausanne.

After completing his PhD in (international) criminal law, he conducted post-doctoral research into sentences pronounced by international criminal tribunals and into human rights as applied by international criminal tribunals. He did this research as a Visiting Scholar in famous universities: at the Irish Center for Human Rights in Galway, at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and at the Université catholique de Louvain. Therefore, he has worked on the perspectives of victims on international criminal law.

Damien Scalia found it crucial and necessary to analyse the perpetrators’ perception and experience of international criminal justice. When conducting this research, he was based at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, at the Columbia Law School (New York) and at the Catholic University of Louvain.