Damien Scalia

Damien Scalia

Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles

Areas of expertise

International Criminal Law  /  Transitional Justice  /  Prison Law

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.

Taught Courses

Democratic Republic of the Congo, Vital Kamerhe is welcomed by his supporters as he arrives in Goma for electoral campaign on the 19th of November 2011. Master in transitional justice - Course

Sociology of Justice: the Experiences of Transitional Justice Actors

The objective of the course is to analyse transitional justice through an innovative and most interesting prism: the experience of its actors

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Guatemala, Chimaltenango, San Juan Comalapa.Carmen , 64, points to the name of her husband, Felipe, on the marble plaque that lists, name by name, the people found in 2003 in a former army camp. Most of them weren't identified, and among them was her husb LLM - Course

Sociology of Justice: the Experiences of Transitional Justice Actors

The objective of the course is to analyse transitional justice through an innovative and most interesting prism: the experience of its actors

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Publications

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Les grands arrêts du droit international pénal général

January 2021

Damien Scalia, Sabino Cassese, Marie-Laurence, Hébert-Dolbec, Vanessa Thalmann

Dalloz

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Quand la dissidence devient jugement : retour sur les opinions séparées en droit international pénal

2020

Damien Scalia, A. Ramseier

Champ pénal/Penal Field

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An Outsider’s View from Inside. The Experience of Acquittals before International Criminal Tribunals

March 2019

Damien Scalia

Journal of International Criminal Justice

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Droit international de la détention, Des droits des prisonniers aux devoirs des Etats

September 2015

Damien Scalia

Helbing Lichtenhahn Verlag

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