Lionel Nichols

MPhil in Law
Lincoln College
lionel.nichols@law.ox.ac.uk

Qualifications

Bachelor of Civil Laws, University of Oxford (2009)
Master of International Politics, University of Tasmania (2006)
Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws (Hons), University of Tasmania (2006)
Admitted as a Lawyer in the Supreme Court of Victoria since 2007

Lionel is conducting research into the International Criminal Court's involvement in Kenya in response to the post-electoral violence of 2007 and 2008.  He has previously worked as a legal intern at the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and as a legal intern with Trial Chamber II at the Special Court for Sierra Leone.  He is currently the Administrative Manager for the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Group.

Research Interests

• Transitional justice, particularly in Africa

• The politics and law of the International Criminal Court

• International criminal law
  

• International humanitarian law

• Domestic charters of rights

Publications

"David Hicks: Prisoner of War, or Prisoner of the War on Terror?" (2008) 15 Australian International Law Journal 55.

Supervisor

Dr. Phil Clark