Nina Jørgensen

Nina Jørgensen is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Southampton (since 2019) and a Judge at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) in The Hague (since 2020).  At the KSC, Nina has been a member of the Court of Appeals Panel in the Gucati and Haradinaj, Salih Mustafa, and P Shala cases and in interlocutory appeal proceedings in multiple cases.  She was appointed to the Attorney General’s Public International Law (B) Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown in 2026.

Nina was called to the Bar of England and Wales (Gray’s Inn) in 1999.  From 2001 to 2010, she worked in various capacities at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown (including as Senior Appeals Counsel and Senior Legal Adviser for the Office of the Prosecutor), the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in Phnom Penh (Senior Judicial Coordinator for the Pre-Trial Chamber), and the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia (Associate Legal Officer in Chambers) and Rwanda (Defence Legal Assistant) in The Hague and Arusha respectively. She has also worked for the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Warsaw as the Legal Adviser for Tolerance and Non-Discrimination.  She continues to advise the United Nations and non-governmental organisations on matters relating to international human rights law and international criminal justice in a consultancy capacity.

Nina has previously held academic positions at the University of Leiden and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In the academic year 2014-15, she was a Visiting Fellow on the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.  She has published widely in the fields of public international law and international criminal law and procedure, including two monographs (The Responsibility of States for International Crimes, Oxford University Press, 2000; and Companion to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Edward Elgar, 2018), and an edited collection (The International Criminal Responsibility of War’s Funders and Profiteers, Cambridge University Press, 2020.)  She has a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford and LLB (Hons) from the University of Bristol.