Emmanuelle Marchand

Emmanuelle Marchand is a Senior Legal Counsel and the Head of the legal unit for Civitas Maxima a network of lawyers specialized in the investigation of international crimes and legal representation of victims of such crimes. Since 2013, she has been working on Civitas Maxima cases and has been conducting investigation on international crimes committed in West Africa including conflict related SGBV. She also acts as consultant for the Institute for International Criminal Investigations (IICI) and provides trainings on different aspects of international investigation (including CRSGBV) for both NGOs and UN. For more than 10 years she has been working on international cases including at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the African Extraordinary Chambers and war crimes cases at national level. She graduated with degrees in International Law and Human Rights from the University of Paris II Panthéon Assas (Master) and the University of Aix en Provence (Master).

Extraterritorial Cases and National Accountability: the Liberian Quest for Justice

By Emmanuelle Marchand / June 15, 2020

LIBERIA: LAND OF IMPUNITY Between 1989 and 2003 Liberia suffered two violent civil wars (1989-1996 and 1999-2003) which resulted in the death of more than 150,000 civilians and the commission of a wide range of human rights abuses by all warring factions involved in the conflict. The scale and horror of the atrocities inflicted upon …

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