Mgr. Michala Chadimová, LL.M., PhD.
Doctoral project
Superior responsibility and its applicability to the crime of genocide (successfully defended in March 2022)
Description
Michala focuses on international criminal law and international humanitarian law, with the emphasis on modes of liability for the core international crimes.
Education and professional experience
Michala holds PhD from the Palacky University and LL.M the Amsterdam University. She is currently working as a Legal Officer for an international criminal tribunal in the Hague. Michala spent four years in Iraq working with the UN investigative team on crimes committed by the Islamic State. She did her internship at the ICC and participated in the prosecution of Bosco Ntaganda for war crimes and crimes against humanity. She also served at the Office of the Co-Prosecutor at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. She is a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
Publications
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"Time for yet another judicial creativity – does purpose-based approach hinders successful prosecution of genocide cases?" in Genocide in International Criminal Law (Brill, 2022).
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"Genocide and superior responsibility – conviction for a special intent crime without proving special intent!?" in The Concept of Genocide in ICL (Routledge, 2020).
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"Legal responsibility of the military commander to prevent or punish the acts of human trafficking under the Rome Statute" in Human Trafficking in Conflict Context, Causes and the Military (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
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"Sexual Slavery and Members of a Terrorist Group - what is the future of Boko Haram Trial at the ICC?" (Journal of Human Trafficking, enslavement and conflict-related sexual violence, 2020).