It is our great pleasure to introduce our new IntLawGrrls contributor Tanya Krupiy. Tanya Krupiy carries out consultancy work in the areas of international human rights law, international humanitarian law, the law of the use of force and international criminal law. In the capacity as a consultant Tanya creates teaching materials and toolkits to facilitate the ability of organizations to implement international legal standards. In 2015 the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada awarded her funding to carry out a postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University. Tanya developed a legal test for how to locate criminal accountability to a senior politician, senior Department of Defense official, corporate directors, senior programmer, military commander and operator for war crimes brought about by the operation of a lethal autonomous weapon system. Tanya holds a Master of Laws with distinction from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Essex.

Heartfelt Welcome!