Suzannah Linton is an academic and practising international lawyer. She has been an academic and researcher at the China University of Political Science and Law, the International Academy of the Red Cross and Red Crescent at Suzhou University, Renmin University of China, and served as distinguished professor at Zhejiang Gongshang University's Law School. She was previously a professor and Chair of

International Law International law, also known as public international law and the law of nations, is the set of Rule of law, rules, norms, Customary law, legal customs and standards that State (polity), states and other actors feel an obligation to, and generall ...

at Bangor Law School,

Bangor University Bangor University () is a Public university, public Research university, research university in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. It was established by Royal charter, Royal Charter in 1885 as the University College of North Wales (UCNW; ), and in 1893 ...

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Practical experience

Linton has wide practical work experience with international courts and tribunals and international organisations, including the UN

ICTY The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to try their perpetrators. The tribun ...

OSCE The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization comprising member states in Europe, North America, and Asia. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, the pr ...

Mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina, the

Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a department of the United Nations Secretariat that works to promote and protect human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Univers ...

, and the UN Special Panels for Serious Crimes in East Timor. She has worked especially intensively in the Balkans, Cambodia, Indonesia, East Timor and Bangladesh. She monitored

crimes against humanity Crimes against humanity are certain serious crimes committed as part of a large-scale attack against civilians. Unlike war crimes, crimes against humanity can be committed during both peace and war and against a state's own nationals as well as ...

trials in Indonesia in 2002. Her work has been profiled by the

International Committee of the Red Cross The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a three-time Nobel Prize laureate. The organization has played an instrumental role in the development of rules of war and ...

Radio Television Hong Kong Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) is the public broadcasting service of Hong Kong. GOW, the predecessor to RTHK, was established in 1928 as the first broadcasting service in Hong Kong. As a government department under the Commerce and Economic ...

, Professor Philip Zimbardo, and by the Crimes of War project. She has been interviewed about her work by the media in several countries, for example about the

Western Sahara Western Sahara is a territorial dispute, disputed territory in Maghreb, North-western Africa. It has a surface area of . Approximately 30% of the territory () is controlled by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR); the remaining 70% is ...

, East Timor, justice in

Bangladesh Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by ...

and war crimes trials in

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

Academic career

Linton has taught and researched at several Chinese universities, and she was awarded a ‘Thousand Talents Award’ and a West Lake Friendship Award. Linton was also a professor and chair of international law at Bangor Law School, Bangor University. Prior to that, she was an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong and led its Human Rights LLM Programme. She was a British Chevening Scholar. Linton teaches public international law and specialised options such as international criminal law, the international law of armed conflict, international human rights law, and dealing with the legacies of the past. She has been a visiting professor at universities in several countries. Linton was awarded a Hong Kong Research Grants Council grant which led to the identification of case files at the UK National Archives in relation to Hong Kong's War Crimes Trials after the Second World War. With her research team, she also did interviews with survivors and participants of the trials and created the online Hong Kong War Crimes Trials Collection, accessible globally at http://hkwctc.lib.hku.hk/exhibits/show/hkwctc/home. Apart from publishing journal papers related to the subject, for example
Rediscovering the War Crimes Trials in Hong Kong, 1946-48
in the Melbourne Journal of International Law, she also published ''Hong Kong's War Crimes Trials'', published by Oxford University Press in September 2013. ''The South China Morning Post'' wrote a major article on this in 2013. She has also spoken around the world about her work in the UK, Hong Kong, China and Australia Her academic work has been extensively published, appearing in major publications such as the ''Journal of International Criminal Justice'', ''Leiden Journal of International Law'', ''Singapore Yearbook of International Law'', ''Melbourne Journal of International Law'', ''Melbourne University Law Review'', ''Criminal Law Forum'', ''International Review of the Red Cross'', ''Human Rights Quarterly'', and many others. Among other selected works includes editing the Criminal Law Forum's Special Edition on the international crimes proceedings in Bangladesh, and leading with others the project on General Principles and Rules of International Criminal Procedure, published as a book by Oxford University Press in 2013. Along with Professor Tim McCormack of Melbourne University and Professor Sandesh Sivakumaran of Cambridge University, she led the project on Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law published by Cambridge University Press in 2019.

References

External links

Bangor University Law School Homepage
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