Student Profiles

Emily Sainsbury, LLB Law with Canadian Law 

Emily recently graduated from her four year undergraduate degree. She has a particular interest in the role gender inequality, mental health stigma and poverty play in the outcomes we are able to achieve within our legal system.  Whilst in Canada she carried out research considering these topics as well as the progress being made within Environmental Law on a global scale.

During her final year, her interests focussed on criminal evidence and how the aforementioned social concerns can impact evidence procurement and admissibility. 

Gbemi Akinyosoye, LLM International Law

Gbemi recently completed her LLM in international law. Her main research interests are in the areas of human rights, gender, and race.

"I'm looking forward to seeing how those topics are addressed in the international criminal justice sphere!"

James Chennells, LLB Law

Prior to the conference, James completed his undergraduate degree and is now undertaking an LLM at in International Criminal Justice and Armed Conflict.

"The area of law I find most interesting is public international law and, more specifically, the law of armed conflict. I am especially interested in the impact of conflict on civilians and protected persons. This is a highly pertinent issue in the current global climate."

Nima Nikkhah, LLB Law

At the time of the conference, Nima had just completed the second year of his undergraduate degree in Law.

Nima's interests in international criminal justice pertain to the ways in which ICL can better adapt to ever increasing human rights violations. Prior to the conference, he shared his hopes that panellists might shed greater light on how ICL can be used to protect victims in Gaza and the Middle East. 

Olivia Connon, LLM International Criminal Justice & Armed Conflict

Olivia's LLM dissertation was centred on Article 31 of the Rome Statute, in particular self-defence. Consequently, her interests in international criminal justice relate to the ways in which defences can be raised in response to the crimes prosecuted under the Rome Statue. She holds additional interests in victim advocacy and it uses in relation to the victims of mass atrocities.

Rasara Jayasuriya, LLM International Law

Rasara recently competed an LLM in International Law, as a recipient of the Developing Solutions Scholarship, having previously practiced law as an Attorney-at-Law in Sri Lanka.

Since competing at the ICRC Moot on International Humanitarian Law, she has maintained an interest in criminal law, human rights law and public international law, and has published several articles with a human rights and IHL perspective.