Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jessica Dorsey LLM Assistant Professor at Utrecht University

Jessica Dorsey, J.D., LL.M., is an international lawyer specializing in humanitarian law, human rights law, and public international law. She teaches these subjects at University College Utrecht and the Conflict and Security track of the Public International Law master’s program. She is also helping establish an interdisciplinary Open-Source Global Justice Investigations Lab. With over a decade of experience in research and advocacy at national, regional, and international levels, including the UN, Jessica is a leading expert in the field of drone warfare. She leads the Realities of Algorithmic Warfare project, serves as an Executive Board Member of Airwars, Chairs the Dutch Airwars Foundation, and holds the position of Associate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, The Hague while also serving as the Managing Editor of Opinio Juris. Most recently, Jessica was named as an Expert Member of the Global Commission on Responsible AI in the Military Domain.

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Dr. Kenneth Manusama International Law Lawyer

Dr. Manusama specializes in international law, but has also been heavily involved in U.S. constitutional law over the past decade. He taught international law at various Dutch universities, but also for a year at New York University. Kenneth also gained experience at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NGOs and the private sector. He taught international law at VU University Amsterdam, and Constitutional Law at Amsterdam University College, with a focus on American constitutional law. Kenneth regularly appears on the radio and television to make contributions about America and American law.

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Carlijn van Rest Partner at Scott+Scott

Carlijn van Rest is a partner in the firm’s Amsterdam office and focuses on collective actions and other complex commercial litigation. She is a litigator at heart and has extensive experience in resolving cross border disputes. Ms. van Rest also represents clients in arbitration and related enforcement procedures and has extensive experience in financial services litigation.

Before joining Scott+Scott, she spent more than 10 years working at Hogan Lovells International LLP.

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Prof. Dr. Sergey Vasiliev Professor of international law, Open University

Sergey Vasiliev is an accomplished academic, currently serving as a Professor of International Law at the Law Faculty of the Open University of the Netherlands. Previously he was an Associate Professor of International, European, and Comparative Criminal Law at the University of Amsterdam. He also served as the Director of the prestigious LLM International Criminal Law (including the Joint Programme with Columbia Law School) and the founding Director of the Amsterdam Center for Criminal Justice within the same institution. His prior academic appointments include an assistant professorship of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University, where he taught international (criminal) law and international law practice from 2016 to 2019.

Dr. Vasiliev’s extensive research portfolio includes co-authorship of the influential Cambridge University Press textbook An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure (the 4th edition is out in the summer of 2024) and pioneering work on international criminal procedure, (legal) pluralism in international criminal law, and the legitimacy and critiques of international criminal justice.

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