PhD Thesis
 

Provisional PhD Thesis Title: The Crime of Torture: Who Can be a Qualified Perpetrato

PhD Supervisor: Paola Gaeta

Expected completion date: 2024

The thesis look at the separate offence of torture as provided for in Article 1(1) of the UN Convention of 1984. More specifically, the analysis aims at exploring who can be a perpetrator of torture as a separate offence. In doing so, the notions of public official, official capacity and acquiescence are carefully analysed. 
 

Profile
 

Victoria Priori is a fourth-year PhD Candidate at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She is working as a Teaching Assistant at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. As an Assistant, she works mostly on Public International Law, International Criminal Law and International Criminal Justice. Previously to become a Teaching Assistant at the Geneva Academy, Victoria was a Teaching Assistant at the Geneva Graduate Institute and had participated to research projects. 
 

Academic Work Experience

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant for the Interdisciplinary Masters at the Graduate Institute

Research Experience

Research Associate for the project entitled ‘Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems and War Crimes: Who is to Bear Criminal Responsibility for Commission?’ led by Paola Gaeta

Research Interests
 

• Torture
• International Criminal Law
• Individual Responsibility
• International Criminal Justice 
   

Relevant Publications and Works
 

• Priori V., 2021. Artificial Intelligence, A Technology in Need of Answers, The Graduate Institute of Geneva
• Priori V., 2021. The UK Supreme Court in R v Reeves Taylor: A Missed Opportunity to Bridge State and Individual Responsibility, Opinio Juris
• Priori, V., 2021. Objective 8 at the Crossroads between Human Rights and National Sovereignty, Amsterdam Law Forum 13(2). [Peer Reviewed]
• Priori, V., 2021. Why the UK Supreme Court may have got R v Reeves Taylor wrong?, Annual Report Civitas Maxima
• Priori, V., 2022 To what extent is international criminal law still primarily concerned with prosecuting crimes connected to the state?, Armed Groups and International Law 
• Priori, V., 2023. Italy’s Difficult Relationship with the Domestic Crime of Torture, Opinio Juris 
• Gaeta, Paola and Bo, Marta and George Jain, Abhimanyu and Priori, Victoria, 2019. Bibliography of Resources Relating to Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems, SSRN 
• Priori, V. [forthcoming 2024] Domestic Violence Plus State Acquiescence Equals Torture: A Good Idea but a Complex Reality, MenschenRechtsMagazin [Peer Reviewed]
   

Other Work Experience

• Research Assistant for UN Special Rapporteur on the Freedom of Expression and Opinion Irene Khan (May – September 2022) 
• Legal Assistant at the ILC for Professor Claudio Grossman (April – August 2022)
• Teaching Assistant at IHEID (September 2020 – September 2022)
• Research Associate for the project entitled ‘Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems and War Crimes: Who is to Bear Criminal Responsibility for Commission?’ led by Paola Gaeta
   

Affiliations
 

• Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Geneva Graduate Institute
   

Links

• LinkedIn
• SSRN

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