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Profile of Professor Suzannah Linton

Name:

Professor Suzannah Linton

Position:

Professor of International Law

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Location:

Room 007, Ground Floor, Athrolys

Phone:

01248 38 3777

Introduction

Dr. Suzannah Linton is the Chair of International Law at Bangor Law School, the Head of the International Law Group and leads the Law Postgraduate Studies Committee. Professor Linton directs the Law School’s four new International Law LLMs: the LLM in International Law; the LLM specialising in Global Trade Law; the LLM specialising in European Law and the LLM specialising in International Criminal Law & International Human Rights Law. She also directs the LLM by Research. Professor Linton teaches the general course in Public International Law and her specialised courses range across several areas of the discipline such as International Criminal Law, the International Law of Armed Conflict and International Human Rights Law. She also teaches in the multi-disciplinary area of Dealing with the Legacies of Armed Conflict and Repression. 

Professor Linton joined Bangor from the University of Hong Kong in 2011. She brings to her work in Bangor a rich international background of many years of professional experience with the United Nations and other global organisations, as well as international courts and tribunals. She has worked, inter alia, at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslvaia in The Hague, for the OSCE in Bosnia-Herzegovina, with the United Nations in Cambodia and East Timor, and in Indonesia. Professor Linton lectures and presents regularly around the world, engages in international research projects, and has taught at international summer schools in Salzburg, Hong Kong, Bangkok and elsewhere.

Recent activities

In the period 2011-2012, Professor Suzannah Linton, inter alia, participated in the Law of the Future Conference in The Hague; participated in the Berlin Museum of the Topography of Terror-US Holocaust Memorial Museum Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the Eichmann Trial; delivered a paper at a conference on Human Rights in Asia organized by the University of Essex and hosted at the Indonesian Embassy in London; organised and co-chaired the International Experts Framework on International Criminal Procedure Final Conference in The Hague; chaired an Amnesty International/Conwy Peace Group meeting on Palestine and the Arab Spring in Llandudno; participated in the International Law Association’s Non State Actors Committee meeting at the Catholic University Leuven, Belgium; and commented as discussant on a new Intersentia book by Professors Edda Kristjansdottir, Andre Nollkaemper and Cedric Ryngaert, on International Law in domestic courts, at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.   

This year, Professor Linton will teach on the annual PhD seminar at the National University of Ireland, Galway in May 2012. In addition to her on-going research projects, Professor Linton is also taking part in a Nuffield Foundation funded project on Amnesties in International Law, led by a team from the University of Ulster. She recently joined the International Advisory Panel of the global Crimes against Humanity Initiative, headed by Professor Leyla Sadat of Washington University School of Law and other leading figures in International Law. She is a founding member of the Steering Committee of the Antonio Cassese Initiative for Justice, Peace and Humanity, launched on 23 April 2012 and based at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. Professor Linton’s two chapters in the Hong Kong Red Cross book edited by Professor Michael Crowley and the ICRC on International Humanitarian Law were published in March 2012. In 2012, she will be publishing, as co-editor and co-author, a near 2,000 page compilation on General Principles and Rules of International Criminal Law with Oxford University Press. Also in the final process of editing is her peer reviewed journal article on ‘Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials’ in the Melbourne Journal of International Law. Professor Linton is also working to complete her multi-author study of the Hong Kong War Crimes trials, commissioned by Oxford University Press and due for publication in 2013.

Supervision interests

Professor Linton currently supervises PhD students working on petroleum arbitration, the International Criminal Court and Libya, and terrorism trials in the United Kingdom. Her LLM supervisees are writing on Libya and the challenges of post conflict justice, equality and non-discrimination rights in Nigeria, and on other areas in International Law. She particularly welcomes PhD students in the following areas:

  • The United Nations;
  • The Use of Force;
  • Humanitarian Intervention/Responsibility to Protect;
  • State Responsibility;
  • Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement;
  • International Courts and Tribunals;
  • International Criminal Law;
  • International Criminal Procedure;
  • International Law of Armed Conflict;
  • International Human Rights Law;
  • International Dispute Resolution;
  • Multidisciplinary issues within the broad topic of ‘Dealing with the legacies of the past’ or ‘Post conflict justice’.

Major publications

Some of Professor Linton’s papers are online at SSRN: see her author page at http://ssrn.com/author=524876.

Forthcoming

  1. Co-editor with Håkan Friman, Göran Sluiter, Salvatore Zappalà & Sergey Vasiliev, The General Rules and Principles of International Criminal Procedure, (Oxford University Press, forthcoming November 2012).  This includes steering and coordinating the work of a team of 40-50 international legal experts, and also co-editing the collection of chapters for publication.
  2. Co-author, “Trial Proceedings”, in Håkan Friman, Suzannah Linton, Göran Sluiter, and Salvatore Zappalà (eds), The General Rules and Principles of International Criminal Procedure, (Oxford University Press, forthcoming November 2012).
  3. “Rediscovering Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials 1946-1948”, Melbourne Journal of International Law (Summer 2012, forthcoming).

Work in progress

  1. Editor, Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials, (Oxford University Press, 2013).
  2. Author, ‘Introduction’ in Suzannah Linton (Ed.), Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials, (Oxford University Press, 2013).
  3. Author, ‘War Crimes’ in Suzannah Linton (Ed.), Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials, (Oxford University Press, 2013).
  4. Author, ‘Major Murray Ormsby: Prosecutor and Judge of the Hong Kong Military Courts 1946-1948’, in Suzannah Linton (Ed.), Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials, (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Websites

Creator of the Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials Collection website and database (2010), with technical assistance from the University of Hong Kong Libraries (see http://hkwctc.lib.hku.hk/exhibits/show/hkwctc/home). This includes a review article ‘Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials’ and 46 casenotes of war crimes trials held in Hong Kong from 1946-1948.

Peer reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

  1. “Sources of protection for the human person in armed conflict: clarifying the terminology” in Michael Crowley and the ICRC (Eds.), International Humanitarian Law (Hong Kong Red Cross, 2012).
  2. “Evolving international approaches to human rights in armed conflict” in Michael Crowley and the ICRC (Eds.), International Humanitarian Law (Hong Kong Red Cross, 2012).
  3. “Li Kam-moon”, in Christopher Munn & May Holdsworth (eds), Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography (Hong Kong University Press, 2011). 
  4. “Bangladesh and the Prosecution of International Crimes from the 1971 War of Independence from Pakistan”, Criminal Law Forum, Vol. 21(2) June 2010, pp.187-190 (Editorial). [see SSRN]
  5. “Completing The Circle: Accountability for the Crimes of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Liberation”, Criminal Law Forum, Vol. 21(2) June 2010, pp.191-311 (lead article). [see SSRN]
  6. “The Role of Judges in Processes of Dealing with the Past”, The Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence 2009, Vol. I, pp. 205-248. [see SSRN]
  7. “Commentary On The ICTR Case Of Prosecutor v. Kamuhanda”, in Goran Sluiter & Andre Klip (Eds.), Annotated Leading Cases Of International Criminal Tribunals, Vol. XXII, (Intersentia nv, 2009), pp.831-849.
  8. “East Timor” in Antonio Cassese et al (Eds.), Oxford Companion To International Criminal Justice, (Oxford University Press, 2009), pp.307-308.
  9. “The International Judge In An Age Of Multiple Courts And Tribunals”, Chicago Journal of International Law, Vol. 9, No. 2, Winter 2008, pp.407-470 (with Firew Kebede Tiba).
  10. “East Timor and Accountability for Serious Crimes”, in M. Cherif Bassiouni (Ed.), International Criminal Law, Vol. III (International Enforcement), (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008, 3rd Edition), pp. 257-283.
  11. “Indonesia and Accountability for Serious Crimes in East Timor”, in M. Cherif Bassiouni (Ed.), International Criminal Law, Vol. III (International Enforcement), (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008, 3rd Edition), pp. 385-399.
  12. “ASEAN States, their reservations to human rights treaties and the proposed ASEAN Commission on Women and Children”, Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 30(2), May 2008, pp. 436-493.

  13. “The Democracy Debate in Hong Kong”, in Gerd Kaminski & Barbara Kreissl (Eds.), China: Human Rights And Harmony In Society, (Berichte des Oesterreichen Instituts fuer China-und-Suedostasienforschung, Nr. 53, 2008), pp. 89-120. 

  14. “Putting Cambodia’s Extraordinary Chambers into Context”, Singapore Year Book of International Law, Vol. XI, 2007, pp.195-259. [see SSRN]
  15. “Accounting for Atrocities in Indonesia”, Singapore Year Book of International Law, Volume X, 2006, pp.199-231. [see SSRN]
  16. “Safeguarding the independence and integrity of the Cambodian Extraordinary Chambers”, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Volume 4(2) 2006, pp.327-341 [translated into Khmer] [see SSRN]
  17. “Unravelling The First Three Trials at Indonesia’s Ad Hoc Court for Human Rights Violations in East Timor”, Leiden Journal of International Law, Volume 17(2), 2004, pp.303-361 [translated into Khmer].
  18. “New Approaches to International Justice in Cambodia and East Timor”, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 845, 31 March 2002, pp.93-119.
  19. “Cambodia, East Timor And Sierra Leone: Experiments In International Justice”, Criminal Law Forum, Volume 12(2) 2001, pp.185-246 [translated into Khmer].
  20. “The Evolving Jurisprudence Of East Timor’s Special Panel For Serious Crimes On Admissions Of Guilt, Duress And Superior Orders”, Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Vol. IV, 2001, pp.167-213 (co-authored with Caitlin Reiger).
  21. “Prosecuting Atrocities At The District Court Of Dili”, Melbourne Journal of International Law, Volume 2(2), 2001, pp.414-458.
  22. “Rising From The Ashes: The Creation Of A Viable Criminal Justice System In East Timor”, Melbourne University Law Review, Volume 25(1), 2001, p.122-180 [translated into Khmer].
  23. Correspondent’s commentary on East Timor, Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Volume IV, 2001, pp.492-497.
  24. Correspondent’s commentary on Indonesia, Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Volume IV, 2001, pp.534-544.
  25. Correspondent’s commentary on the USA, Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Volume IV, 2001, pp.637-639.
  26. Correspondent’s commentary on East Timor, Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Volume III, 2000, pp.471-483.
  27. Correspondent’s commentary on Croatia, Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Volume III, 2000, pp.462-466.
  28. Correspondent’s commentary on Indonesia, Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Volume III, 2000, pp.520-527.
  29. “Righting A Wrong Or Prolonging The Agony? The Work Of The Claims Resolution Tribunal For Dormant Accounts In Switzerland”, Leiden Journal of International Law, Volume 12(2) 1999, pp.373-389.
  30. "The Case Of Drazen Erdemovic: Unchartered Waters At The International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia”, Leiden Journal of International Law, Volume 12(1) 1999, pp.251-270.

Books and Monographs

  1. Post Conflict Justice in Asia, in M. Cherif Bassiouni (Ed.), The Pursuit of International Criminal Justice: A World Study on Conflicts, Victimisation and Post-Conflict Justice, (Brussels: Intersentia NV, 2010), Vol. 2, Part III (pp.515-753 – 238 pages). [see SSRN]
  2. Mempertanggungjawabkan kekejaman-kekejaman di Indonesia, Paper No. 1/2010 (Series Editor: Eddie Sius Riyadi), (Jakarta: ELSAM, 2010) (94 pages) [in Bahasa Indonesia].
  3. Putting Things Into Perspective: The Realities of Accountability in East Timor, Indonesia and Cambodia, (Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies Vol. 3, 2005) (entire volume, 90 pages). [See SSRN]
  4. Reconciliation In Cambodia, (Phnom Penh: Documentation Centre of Cambodia, 2004) (256 pages) [translated into Khmer].

Edited publications

Guest Editor of Special Edition on Bangladesh, Criminal Law Forum, Vol. 21 (2) June 2010, including Editorial.

Conference Proceedings

“Dealing with the Legacies of the Past: Thoughts on the Way Forward” in Mofidul Hoque (Ed.), Bangladesh Genocide 1971 and the Quest for Justice: Papers Presented at the Second International Conference on Genocide, Truth and Justice, 30-31 July 2009 (Liberation War Museum, 2009), pp.155-163.