Barbora Hola Appointed as Member of the Young Academy of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences

Barbora Hola works as Senior Researcher at the NSCR and as Associate Professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at VU University Amsterdam. In 2017 she received a WISE fellowship to develop her research line on empirical studies of international criminal law and transitional justice after atrocities.  Her research focuses in particular on (international) criminal trials, sentencing of international crimes, enforcement of international sentences, rehabilitation and reintegration of war criminals. Hola obtained her PhD in 2012 with a dissertation on consistency of sentencing at the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Although she is trained as a lawyer, she focuses on empirical legal research (ELS). Her research has been cited in judgments of the International Criminal Court.