Jeanne Sulzer

Paris, France 20+ yrs exp.

About

I have watched contemporary international criminal justice take shape — from the inside, since 1998 (only!) I worked, as a young professional, on the creation of the ICC, representing the Burundi delegation at the Rome Diplomatic Conference. I then spent nearly a decade at FIDH as Head of International Justice, building their programme from the ground up — working on universal jurisdiction as the Pinochet arrest reshaped what national courts could do, filing victims participation before the ICC and national jurisdictions across Africa and beyond, and leading fact-finding missions including on sexual violence in Syria. Since then, I have worked as Senior Law & Policy Officer at Amnesty International France, legal advisor on reparations in the Hissène Habré case before the African Extraordinary Chambers, consultant with Open Society Foundations on counter-terrorism and human rights, and technical consultant with UNOCT on victims' rightsof terrorism and sexual violence in conflict. I founded Impact Litigation in 2020. Alongside my practice, I research and write on international criminal justice, reparations, and the structural limits of victims' rights regimes — a perspective shaped by over twenty years in the field. I teach International Criminal Law, Victims' Rights and Terrorism at Sciences Po Paris and Paris II Panthéon-Assas. I am Head of the International Justice commission at Amnesty International France, member of the Scientific Council of the Musée Memorial du terrorism, of Sciences Po Law Clinic, and board member of Syrians for Truth and Justice. I speak and give seminars on international criminal justice, universal jurisdiction, terrorism, and victims' rights — for universities, NGOs, bar associations and institutions in France and internationally. Available in French and English.