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Anna Kotzeva

Anna Kotzeva

Profile

Anna is a non-practicing door tenant.  

Anna is a founding Director of the Peace and Justice Initiative (PJI), a Dutch registered non-profit making NGO (www.peaceandjusticeinitiative.org).  PJI's role is to promote the implementation of the Statute of the International Criminal Court in domestic jurisdictions so that prosecutions of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide can happen at the national level. Anna has worked as Trial and Appeals Counsel in the Office of the Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. She has worked on the Slobodan Milosevic case and the case against Radovan Karadzic.  

She has practiced in the areas of international criminal law, human rights law and asylum and immigration.

Notable Cases

  • ICTY Prosecutor v Slobodan Milosevic (trial on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, up to March 2006)
  • ICTY Prosecutor v Radovan Karadzic (President of Republika Srpska), prosecution ongoing
  • ICTY Prosecutor v Momcilo Krajisnik, (President of the Bosnian Serb Assembly), appeal, 17 March 2009
  • ICTY Prosecutor v Rasim Delic (Commander of the Main Staff of the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina), appeal, pending
  • ICTY Prosecutor v Stanislav Galic (Commander of the Sarajevo Romanija Corps of the Bosnian Serb Army), appeal, 30 November 2006
  • ICTY Prosecutor v Enver Hadzihasanovic (Chief of the Supreme Command Staff of ABiH),appeal, 22 April 2008
  • Wainwright v Home Office [2003] UKHL 53, (2004) 2 AC 406, House of Lords (right to privacy)

Scholarships and Awards

Cambridge University - Henry Hawkins scholarship, James William Squire scholarship and academic exhibition

Middle Temple - Astbury Scholar

Publications

  • Co-Author, "Asylum and Human Rights Appeals Handbook", (Oxford University Press, Ian Burnett QC ed.) 2007
  • Co-Author, "Enlargement and human rights law, norms and realities" in Security Dimension to EU enlargement, (Manchester University Press, Shepherd and Brown ed.) 2007
  • Author, "Towards environmental accountability", New Law Journal, January-July 2005, 1036-7
  • Author, "Take refuge a practitioner's guide to the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004", Solicitors' Journal, Vol 148, No 36, 24-09-2004
  • Author, "Law of humanity" an analysis of Court of Appeal jurisprudence on support for asylum seekers