It is our great pleasure to introduce our new IntLawGrrls contributor Claire Morris!

Claire is a part-time PhD student at the University of Essex School of Law, UK, where she is undertaking empirical research on the impact of the ICC on the Rule of Law and transitional justice in Côte d’Ivoire, Libya and Kenya. She is particularly interested in co-operation between the ICC and national judicial authorities. Having commenced doctoral studies in 2014, she is currently completing her thesis following substantial field research, including extensive work in Côte d’Ivoire and Tunisia (concerning Libya). Claire is admitted into legal practice in England and Wales and New York, USA. Claire graduated from Georgetown University Law Center, USA, in 2009 with an LL.M in International Legal Studies and the University of Bristol, UK and K.U. Leuven, Belgium in 2007 with an LL.B in European Legal Studies. She prosecutes complex fraud, bribery and corruption at the Serious Fraud Office, UK. She is also a member of the UK Stabilisation Unit’s Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict (PSVI) team of experts. She has previously worked in The Hague, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo.

Any views expressed in her contributions are solely the personal views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of any organisation with which she is affiliated.

Heartfelt welcome!