Valerie Oosterveld

Professor Oosterveld is an Assistant professor and Director of the International Internship Program at the University of Western Ontario. She teaches Public International Law, International Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law. Her research and writing focuses on gender issues within international criminal justice. Professor Oosterveld earned her L.L.B. from the University of Toronto and her L.L.M. and S.J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Before joining the faculty at the University of Western Ontario Professor Oosterveld worked in the Legal Affairs Bureau of Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, giving advice on international criminal accountability for crimes of war, crimes against humanity and genocide. She advised for the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and other transnational justice mechanisms like truth and reconciliation commissions.

Professor Oosterveld was a member of the Canadian delegation to the International Criminal Court negotiations and proceeding Assembly of States Parties. She also served on the Canadian delegation to the Review Conference of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in Kampala Uganda.

Valerie Oosterveld

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