Marina Aksenova is Assistant Professor of Comparative and International Criminal Law at IE University. She completed her PhD in 2014 at the European University Institute in Florence.

Her book entitled ‘Complicity in International Criminal Law’ (Hart, 2016) won Paul Guggenheim prize in international law. Marina holds an LLM from the University of Amsterdam (2005) and an MSc in criminology from the University of Oxford (2009).  

She has completed academic stays and postdoctoral studies at the Central European University in Budapest and at the University of Copenhagen (iCourts, Centre of Excellence for International Courts).

Prior to starting an academic journey, Marina worked at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and as an arbitration associate at White and Case LLC.  

Marina is currently exploring the links between art, aesthetics, and international justice in search of a ‘win/win’ paradigm for the field of law that urgently needs rethinking.