Lucie George is a 3rd year PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Born and raised in France, she possess a varied international field experience in researching in and advocating for human rights in France, Hungary, Tunisia, Cambodia, Colombia, Canada and South Africa. Educated in Transitional Justice (PhD, University of the Witwatersrand), Public International Law (LL.M, McGill University), International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law (LL.M, University Paris II Panthéon-Assas), Philosophy (BA, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Civil Law (LLB, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), she has also travelled to Latin America for volunteer work, interned for the United Nations in Cambodia and was a legal research assistant for the Southern Africa Litigation Centre, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her academic research focuses on the areas of gender justice, women’s rights, transitional justice, international criminal law, and international human rights law. Her PhD thesis’s topic is ‘Gender and Transitional Justice in the Central African Republic.’
