Barbora Hola is Professor in Empirical Legal Studies of International Criminal Justice at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Senior Researcher at the NSCR. She has an interdisciplinary focus and studies transitional justice after atrocities, in particular (international) criminal trials, sentencing of international crimes, rehabilitation of war criminals and life after trial at international criminal tribunals. Besides her research and teaching in the Master’s programme International Crimes and Criminology at VU Amsterdam, Barbora is a fellow at the Center for International Criminal Justice and a co-chair of the European Society of Criminology Group on Atrocity Crimes and Transitional Justice (https://ecactj.org). In 2018 she has been appointed as a member of De Jonge Akademie of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (https://www.dejongeakademie.nl/nl/science-spots/leden-in-beeld/barbara-hola). In 2017, Barbora was one of the four candidates who received the prestigious ‘WISE’ (Women in Science Excel) fellowship from the Dutch Organization for a Scientific Research to develop her research line on empirical studies of international criminal and transitional justice after atrocities and in 2021 she recieved a VIDI grant to study intergenerational impact of transitional punishment (see www.atrocitylegacies.com).
prof. dr. Barbora Hola, LLM
Full Professor, Faculty of Law, Criminology
Full Professor, A-LAB
Full Professor, Research Programmes - Law, Empirical and Normative Studies
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- PILPG | Amsterdam | Bestuurder | 2013-12-02 - present
- NSCR | Amsterdam | Medewerker | 2017-04-01 - present
- NIAS Lorentz Center | Leiden | Bestuurder | 2023-01-01 - present
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