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International Criminal Justice on Trial: the Legal Implications of the Referral Practice of Cases from International to National Justice Mechanisms
The ICTY/ICTR Experience and its Possible Relevance for the ICC

Jennifer Schuetze-Reymann

Ph.D. Project

A crucial component of the UN Security Council Completion Strategy, the ICTY and ICTR referral practice to national courts concretely illustrates various legal challenges that arise from pluralistic accountability mechanisms. By analyzing legal problems highlighted by this practice, identifying possible root causes, and formulating potential solutions that may also be relevant for the ICC, this project sheds light on the shifting dynamic between the main actors involved in the prosecution of international crimes.

For more on this project, please see full project description.

Research Interests and Goals

International criminal law (purposes of punishment, legal pluralism), relationship between international and national criminal justice mechanisms in the prosecution of international crimes.

Curriculum vitae

Since April 2009 PhD Candidate of the International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment (IMPRS REMEP) at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg i.Br., Germany
January 2007 - January 2009 Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Staff member;
Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe & Directorate General of Legal Affairs (Department of Crime Problems), Consultant on several projects
March 2005 - October 2006 International Criminal Court, Office of the Prosecutor, Investigation Division, Staff member;
International Criminal Court, Office of the Prosecutor, Legal Advisory Section, Law Clerk
September 2004 - February 2005 Assistant Director, Special Court for Sierra Leone Legal Clinic at McGill University
2005 McGill University, Institute of Comparative Law: LL.M (thesis: international criminal law)
2003 McGill University, Faculty of Law: LL.B, B.C.L. (transsystemic legal education program)