Suzannah Linton

Suzannah Linton is an academic and practising international lawyer. She has been an academic and researcher at the China University of Political Science and Law,[1] the International Academy of the Red Cross and Red Crescent at Suzhou University,[2] Renmin University of China,[3] and served as distinguished professor at Zhejiang Gongshang University's Law School.[4] She was previously a professor and Chair of International Law at Bangor Law School, Bangor University in Wales.

## Practical experience

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Linton has wide practical work experience with international courts and tribunals and international organisations, including the UN ICTY, OSCE Mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the UN Special Panels for Serious Crimes in East Timor. She has worked especially intensively in the Balkans, Cambodia, Indonesia, East Timor and Bangladesh.[5] She monitored crimes against humanity trials in Indonesia in 2002.[6]

Her work has been profiled by the International Committee of the Red Cross,[7] Radio Television Hong Kong,[8] Professor Philip Zimbardo,[9] and by the Crimes of War project.[10] She has been interviewed about her work by the media in several countries, for example about the Western Sahara,[11] East Timor,[12] justice in Bangladesh[13] and war crimes trials in Hong Kong.[14]

## Academic career

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Linton has taught and researched at several Chinese universities, and she was awarded a ‘Thousand Talents Award’ [15] and a West Lake Friendship Award.[16] Linton was also a professor and chair of international law at Bangor Law School, Bangor University.[17] Prior to that, she was an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong and led its Human Rights LLM Programme.[18] She was a British Chevening Scholar.[19]

Linton teaches public international law and specialised options such as international criminal law, the international law of armed conflict, international human rights law, and dealing with the legacies of the past.[20] She has been a visiting professor at universities in several countries.[21][22]

Linton was awarded a Hong Kong Research Grants Council grant which led to the identification of case files at the UK National Archives in relation to Hong Kong's War Crimes Trials after the Second World War.[23] With her research team, she also did interviews with survivors and participants of the trials and created the online Hong Kong War Crimes Trials Collection,[24] accessible globally at http://hkwctc.lib.hku.hk/exhibits/show/hkwctc/home. Apart from publishing journal papers related to the subject, for example, Rediscovering the War Crimes Trials in Hong Kong, 1946-48 in the Melbourne Journal of International Law, she also published Hong Kong's War Crimes Trials, published by Oxford University Press in September 2013.[25] The South China Morning Post wrote a major article on this in 2013.[26] She has also spoken around the world about her work in the UK,[27][28] Hong Kong,[29] China[30] and Australia[31]

Her academic work has been extensively published, appearing in major publications such as the Journal of International Criminal Justice, Leiden Journal of International Law, Singapore Yearbook of International Law, Melbourne Journal of International Law, Melbourne University Law Review, Criminal Law Forum, International Review of the Red Cross, Human Rights Quarterly, and many others.[citation needed] Among other selected works includes editing the Criminal Law Forum's Special Edition on the international crimes proceedings in Bangladesh,[32][33] and leading with others the project on General Principles and Rules of International Criminal Procedure, published as a book by Oxford University Press in 2013.[34]

Along with Professor Tim McCormack of Melbourne University and Professor Sandesh Sivakumaran of Cambridge University, she led the project on Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law published by Cambridge University Press in 2019.[35]

## References

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1. ^ "International Review of the Red Cross". Retrieved 3 June 2020.
2. ^ "International Review of the Red Cross". Retrieved 3 June 2020.
3. ^ "Women Accused of International Crimes". Retrieved 3 June 2020.
4. ^ "Prof. Dr. Suzannah Linton". Retrieved 13 November 2014.
5. ^ "International Criminal Procedure Expert Framework Towards the Codification of General Rules and Principles". International Criminal Procedure Expert Framework Towards the Codification of General Rules and Principles.
6. ^ "Leiden Journal of International Law". Leiden Journal of International Law.
7. ^ "China: living the law – how IHL is inspiring lives". Icrc.org. 2010-12-22. Retrieved 2012-08-09.
8. ^ 2010-12-29 HKT 06:30 (2010-12-29). "rthk.hk 香港電台網站: Hong Kong Today". Programme.rthk.hk. Retrieved 2012-08-09.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
9. ^ "The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo". Lucifereffect.com. Retrieved 2012-08-09.
10. ^ Crimes. "Crimes of War – Bangladesh: A Free and Fair War Crimes Tribunal?". Crimesofwar.org. Archived from the original on 2016-01-20. Retrieved 2012-08-09.
11. ^ "SCMP: A matter of social duty and fertiliser". wsrw.org. 2008-08-10. Retrieved 2012-08-09.
12. ^ "Lagging tribunal is called a threat to a viable East Timor". Etan.org. 2001-02-09. Retrieved 2012-08-09.
13. ^ "Gather experiences from war crimes trials in other nations". Thedailystar.net. 2009-12-19. Retrieved 2012-08-09.
14. ^ "Forgotten Heroes of World War II deeds brought to light (chinese)". South China Morning Post. September 13, 2010.; Wong-Yat-hei (October 14, 2010). "Lessons from our darkest era". South China Morning Post.; "The HKU push date of war criminals database (chinese)". Mingpao.com. September 13, 2010.; "HKU push the World War II Japanese war criminals database files exposing the Japanese torture (chinese)". China News. September 13, 2010.; http://news.sina.com.hk/news/3/1/1/1852154/1.html.
15. ^ "One Thousand Talents Award Presented by ZJGSU President to Law School's Professor Linton" (PDF). Retrieved 3 June 2020.
16. ^ "Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law: About the Authors". Retrieved 3 June 2020.
17. ^ "Professor's book launched in Hong Kong". Bangor International. Bangor University. April 2014. p. 7.
18. ^ "Hong Kong's War Crimes Trials: Seminar and Book Launch".
19. ^ "Chevening Scholarship: previous scholar".
20. ^ "Antonio Cases Initiative for Justice, Peace and Humanity".
21. ^ "Professor Linton teaches International Criminal Law in China again".
22. ^ "Professor Suzannah Linton teaches at Seoul National University in South Korea".
23. ^ "Hong Kong War Crime Trials Collection".
24. ^ "Hong Kong's War Crimes Trials: Seminar and Book Launch".
25. ^ "War Crime Trials in Hong Kong".
26. ^ "Book sheds light Hong Kong's War Tribunals".
27. ^ "War Crime Trials in Hong Kong".
28. ^ "Hong Kong War Crime Trials".
29. ^ "Hong Kong's War Crime Trials: Seminar and Book Launch".
30. ^ "Suzannah Linton教授学术讲座预告".
31. ^ "Pacific Histories I: China, Japan, Siam" (PDF).
32. ^ "Linton, Suzannah".
33. ^ "Antonio Cassese Initiative for Justice, Peace and Humanity".
34. ^ "War Crime Trials in Hong Kong".
35. ^ "Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law". Retrieved 3 June 2020.

## External links

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* Bangor University Law School Homepage