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The seminar will give an overview of the developments in the law on crimes against women in armed conflicts after World War II. It will cover both the statutory international law (Statutes of the Nuremberg/Tokyo Tribunals of 1945/46, Geneva Conventions of 1949, Statutes of the Former Yugoslavia/Rwanda ad-hoc Tribunals of 1993/1994, Statute of the International Criminal Court of 1998) and the case law of international criminal tribunals and court. The seminar will argue that advancements related to crimes against women can be explained by two main factors: first, judicial activism and daring methods of interpretation used by the ad-hoc tribunals; second, the organised feminist discourse and lobbying.
Speaker Biography: Professor Karolina Ristova - Aasterud is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen School of Law where she is affiliated with the Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law (ACCPIL) during her research leave from October 2023 to October 2026. During her stay, she will work on her research project on EU multilingualism in the context of the EU enlargement and write textbooks in jurisprudence.
Professor Ristova - Aasterud is joining us from the Faculty of Law Iustinianus Primus, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, in Skopje, North Macedonia, where she is a tenured Professor of Law, teaching and researching in legal theory, international humanitarian law (crimes against women in armed conflicts), feminist theories on politics, and EU political system. She is the author of three monographs in Macedonian, and of over 40 scholarly articles and book chapters (with OUP, Peter Lang and LIT Verlag).
She holds a LLB, a MSc (Political Sciences) and a Doctorate in Law from her University in Skopje, and a LLM from Georgetown University in Washington DC as a Fulbright/Ron Brown Fellow. She also studied at the Hague Academy of International Law, Duke-Geneva Institute of Transnational Law, and Academy of European Law of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Edinburgh School of Law and the Europa Institute, Saarland University, in Saarbrücken, Germany, as well as Guest Lecturer at the College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Florida and the University of Montenegro School of Law.
In addition to her academic career, Prof. Dr. Ristova - Aasterud served as an elected member of the City Council of the City of Skopje, an elected member of the Macedonian Parliament, and in the Pardon Committee of the President of the Republic of Macedonia.
- Speaker
- Professor Karolina Ristova - Aasterud
- Hosted by
- Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law
- Venue
- Taylor building C11
- Contact
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Event is free and open to all. For more information please contact Mr Georgi Chichkov at georgi.chichkov@abdn.ac.uk
