Professor Caroline Fournet

Caroline Fournet is Professor of Law and Head of the Law School (Streatham campus). She started her academic career as a lecturer, and then senior lecturer, in law at Exeter Law School (2004-2011). From 2011 to 2021, she was Rosalind Franklin Fellow and then Professor in Comparative Criminal Law and International Justice at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). In 2016, she took up a Visiting Professional position in Chambers at the International Criminal Court. In 2021, she was Professeure invitée at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques d'Aix-en-Provence (Sciences Po Aix, France). Since October 2021, she is Professor of Law at Exeter Law School where she became Head of the Law School in June 2024.

Expertise: International Criminal Law and Procedure; Human Rights Law; European Convention on Human Rights; Right to a Fair Trial; International Prosecution of Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, War Crimes and Sexual Violence; Domestic Prosecution of Crimes against Humanity, Genocide and War Crimes; Post-conflict Investigations; Investigations of International Crimes and of Gross Human Rights Violations; Forensic Evidence; Empirical Research and Content Analysis.

Main Editorial Roles:

• Editor-in-Chief, International Criminal Law Review (Brill Publishers).
• Editor-in-Chief for Law, Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Manchester University Press).
• Series Editor-in-Chief, Studies in International Criminal Law (Brill Nijhoff Publishers).