It is our great pleasure to introduce our new IntLawGrrls contributer Aloka Wanigasuriya. Aloka Wanigasuriya is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). Aloka’s PhD project investigates the potential impact of the International Criminal Court in Ukraine and Georgia. Aloka is an Australian qualified lawyer who has previously worked at Lund University (Faculty of Law), the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights, the Danish Institute for Human Rights, and at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Trial Chamber II, Prosecutor v Taylor). Aloka has been a visiting researcher at the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University (Australia), Lund University (Sweden), and at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. Aloka’s research interests lie within the fields of international criminal justice, public international law and international human rights law.

Heartfelt welcome!