Academic interests
- Socio-legal methods
- International criminal law
- Victims rights
- Conflict-related sexual violence
- Children born of war (CBOW)
Lina Stotz completed her PhD with the Faculty of Law and the Centre for Gender Research, funded through the EuroWARCHILD project. Lina's PhD thesis is titled "Children Born of War and Narratives of (Non-)Recognition in International Criminal Law and Beyond".
Background
Lina is a board member of the Children Born of War Project, was section manager on domestic and sexual violence at Terre des Femmes, policy advisor at the Society for Threatened Peoples and trainee at the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice. In these capacities, she worked with victims of sexual violence and with children born of war from Northern Iraq, Uganda, Myanmar/Bangladesh, Nigeria and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Besides her PhD degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo, Lina holds an LLM and an LLB in international law from universities in Switzerland and the Netherlands. For her LLB thesis on a gender-specific interpretation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, she received her university's annual award in 2017.
Lina has lived, studied and worked in Myanmar, Laos, Germany, Norway, Switzerland and the Netherlands.