Adi Atlas
FICHL Fellow
November 2011 -

Adi Atlas is an LL.B. student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as an exchange student at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies, London, UK. As of August 2011, she works as a research assistant for Dr. Yifat Biton (College of Management Academic Studies, Israel) and, as of October 2011, is a member of the Israel Law Review journal student editorial board. While living in Jerusalem, Adi has worked as a paralegal for the Israeli Department of Justice (April 2010 - May 2011).

Stephen Tumwesigye
FICHL Fellow
May 2011 -

Stephen Tumwesigye holds an LLB (Hons) from Makerere University-Kampala, Uganda. While still a student, he worked as a research assistant with the faculty's Human Rights and Peace Centre and as a legal intern with the International Justice in Africa Program of International Refugee Rights Initiative. He currently works with the Uganda Coalition on the International Criminal Court as a Legal Associate, where he provides legal research to the coalition and conducts trainings for members of civil society in Uganda on the ICC. He also co-ordinates the Transitional Justice Project of Human Rights Network-Uganda which is aimed at building the capacity of local civil society organizations in Uganda, to participate in local transitional justice processes. He has published articles in reputable journals, focusing on the work of the ICC in Africa, the complementary role of national institutions and other transitional justice processes.

Maria Luisa Piqué
FICHL Fellow
December 2010 -

Maria Luisa Piqué has a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Law, and is an LL.M. candidate (2011) from Georgetown University Law Center. Before joining the LL.M. program at Georgetown, she co-ordinated the team of young lawyers who assisted in the prosecutions of several members of the Argentinean Armed and Security Forces involved in crimes against humanity committed during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship, in the Navy's Mechanics School (ESMA), in the "Orletti Motors" detention center, and within the Operation Condor - the co-ordinated repressive effort of the Southern Cone military governments.

Aleksandra Sidorenko
FICHL Fellow
November 2010 -

Aleksandra Sidorenko holds a law degree from the American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan), a master degree in Information and Communication Technologies Law (University of Oslo), and is currently undertaking the LL.M. programme in public international law at the University of Oslo. She has working experience from a law firm and several development projects in Kyrgyzstan. While studying in Norway, she has done research in legal information retrieval and prepared several publications. She works as a Research Assistant at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights of the University of Oslo.

Kiki Anastasia Japutra
FICHL Fellow
September 2010 -

Kiki Anastasia Japutra holds a B.S.Sc. degree in International Governance from the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan, and a M.Phil. degree in Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Oslo. She was an Intern at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), on the projects Armed Conflicts and Peace Making in Southeast Asia and The East Asian Peace, and has worked as a Research Assistant for the ICC Legal Tools Programme of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights.

Isaias Yemane Tesfalidet
FICHL Fellow
June 2010 -

Isaias Yemane Tesfalidet has an LL.B. from the University of Asmara, Faculty of Law and an LL.M. from the Yale Law School. Before joining the LL.M. program at the Yale Law School, he worked as a Staff at the Office of the Legal Advisor to the Office of the President of the State of Eritrea (August 2006 - August 2009). His work there involved responsibility of states for internationally wrongful acts for violations of international law including human rights and humanitarian law. In May 2008, Isaias appeared before the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission final Damages Hearing at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. While at the Yale Law School he participated in the Yale Legal Assistance Project for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC Project) and the Genocide, Mass Atrocities and the Law run by Lowenstein Human Rights Project supported by the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights.

Audrey Wong
FICHL Fellow
June 2010 -

Audrey Wong has just graduated with a degree in law from the National University of Singapore (NUS). As part of her studies, she spent a year at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C., where she interned at the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project. She also founded and was president of the Criminal Justice Club in NUS. She is now interning at aidha, a social enterprise dedicated to enriching the lives of migrant women through financial education. As assistant programme coordinator at the Student Christian Movement (Singapore), she is also working on setting up a rape crisis centre in Singapore and documenting the occupational hazards of sex workers in Singapore's red-light district.

Annika Jones
FICHL Fellow
March 2010 -

Mats Benestad
FICHL Fellow
January 2010 -

Mats Benestad holds a law degree from the University of Bergen, specializing in international law (American University, Washington DC) and international criminal law (University in Oslo). He did his master thesis on prosecutorial discretion at the ICC. He has served the Norwegian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, and works for the UNODC. During his studies he was a Research Assistant at the Norwegian Center for Human Rights, had an internship at UNICEF's Ethics Office in New York and several internships with different law firms in Oslo.

Alf Butenschøn Skre
FICHL Fellow
June 2009 - December 2010

Alf Butenschøn Skre holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Oslo, specializing in International Relations and Middle East Studies (including a semester abroad at the American University in Cairo). He is currently pursuing a law degree at the University in Oslo. During his studies, Alf has worked at Doctors Without Borders and as editorial manager of the student's publication Argument. He plays a central role in the publication programme of the FICHL.

Erlend des Bouvrie
FICHL Law Clerk
March 2008 - September 2010

Linda Hafstad
Intern
July 2006 - January 2009

Benedicte Malling
FICHL Law Clerk
February 2007 - September 2009

Maria Victoria Perotti
Intern
October 2006 - June 2007