Victoria  Priori

Victoria Priori

Academic Coordinator for Short Courses and Trainings

Areas of expertise

International Humanitarian Law  /  International Human Rights Law  /  International Criminal Law  /  Non-State Armed Groups

Victoria Priori is the Academic Coordinator for Short Courses and Trainings at the Geneva Academy.

Before taking on this role, Victoria served as a Teaching Assistant at the Geneva Academy from 2022 to 2025. In this capacity, she led seminars primarily on topics related to public international law and international criminal law. Prior to that, she was a Teaching Assistant and Junior Researcher at the Geneva Graduate Institute, where she contributed to a project on lethal autonomous weapons and the attribution of criminal responsibility.

Victoria’s main research interests lie in international criminal law and human rights. She has authored academic articles and blog posts on the crime of torture and its prohibition under human rights law. She also contributed as a consultant to research on misinformation for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression.

Victoria completed her PhD in International Criminal Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute in 2025.

Publications

To what extent is international criminal law still primarily concerned with prosecuting crimes connected to the state?

July 2022

Victoria Priori

Armed Groups and International Law

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OBJECTIVE 8 AT THE CROSSROADS BETWEEN HUMAN RIGHTS AND NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY

2021

Victoria Priori

Amsterdam Law Forum 13(2)

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The UK Supreme Court in R v Reeves Taylor: A Missed Opportunity to Bridge State and Individual Responsibility

February 2021

Victoria Priori

Opinio Juris

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Bibliography of Resources Relating to Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems

November 2019

Victoria Priori, Paola Gaeta, Marta Bo, Abhimanyu George Jain

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