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Vanessa Holzer is a British Red Cross Research Fellow on the joint British Red Cross/International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) project to update the practice section of the ICRC’s Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law.
Prior to joining the project, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre of the University of Oxford and a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Vanessa also served as a researcher for the Sutherland Committee of the Migration Studies Unit at the London School of Economics (LSE), focusing on the rights of migrants under international law. She has also worked for a Bolivian human rights NGO.
A former scholar of the German National Academic Foundation, Vanessa is finishing a PhD thesis on refugee protection in armed conflict. She holds an LLM in Public International Law from the LSE and a BA in International Relations and International Law from the University of Dresden. Her LLM dissertation was awarded the Blackstone Chambers Prize by the LSE Law Department for the best dissertation in public international law.
Email: vh277@cam.ac.uk
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