Nicola Palmer

Dr Nicola Palmer is a Reader in law at King’s College London and the author of Courts in Conflict: Interpreting the Layers of Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda (OUP, 2015). She has written on questions of the relationship between international criminal law and border control, resistance to mass violence, methodological approaches to transitional justice and legal pluralism in Rwanda with support from the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Rhodes Trust. Most recently her work has been published in journals including Theoretical Criminology, the Leiden Journal of International Law and Transnational Legal Theory. Dr Palmer was previously the Global Justice Research Fellow at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford and convenor of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) network. She received her DPhil in law from Oxford in 2011 where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Prior to this, she worked at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (UN ICTR), following her undergraduate in law and economics at Rhodes University in Makhanda, South Africa.