About the Author

Anne-Marie de Brouwer (PhD, LL.M.) studied Dutch, human rights law and international law at Tilburg University (the Netherlands), La Sapienza (Italy) and the University of Essex (UK). She is currently an Associate Professor in international criminal law at the Department of Criminal Law of Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and a research fellow with the International Victimology Institute Tilburg (INTERVICT). Previously, she was an associate legal officer at the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice in The Hague.Her main areas of research and interest include international crimes, international criminal law and procedure, international humanitarian law, victims' rights, victimology, sexual violence and transitional justice.She is the co-founder and chair of the Mukomeze Foundation, which aims to improve the lives of women and girls who survived sexual violence during the Rwandan genocide.

Reviews

'de Brouwer [...] has offered a very thorough and original analysis of the transitional justice] mechanisms and their dealings with sexual violence. This book is therefore a valuable addition to the literature on transitional justice, international criminal justice but also criminology and is certainly of utmost importance for the improvement of the dealings with the war crime of sexual violence.' Estelle Zinsstag in 11 Criminology and Criminal Justice 91 (1) 2011. 'de Brouwer may be applauded for making the special legal needs of victims of sexual crimes visible.' Larissa van den Herik in 25 Netherlands Quaterly of Human Rights 737 (4) 2007. 'In the next years, it will not be easy to add something [to this book]. Nobody who writes on the prosecution and trial of sexual violence in a supranational criminal context can avoid this book. It describes, analyses and comments all the relevant topic in detail. It is, to be brief, a rich book that merits a prestigious international prize. R. Haveman in 18 Delikt en Delinkwent 250 (3) 2008