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Dr G. (Gabriele) Chlevickaitė

Faculty of Law
T.M.C. Asser Instituut
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  • Schimmelpennincklaan 20-22
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  • Postbus 15544
    1001 NA Amsterdam
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  • Expertise

    Gabriele Chlevickaite is International Criminal Law researcher, currently coordinating ICL and IHL related projects in Ukraine, and conducting empirical-legal research into fact-finding in international criminal investigations and prosecutions.

  • Profile

    Gabriele Chlevickaite is International Criminal Law researcher at the Asser Institute (on loan from the University of Amsterdam), where she coordinates international criminal law-related projects and conducts research into fact-finding in international criminal investigations and prosecutions. Prior to joining the Asser Institute, she was  Assistant Professor in Empirical and Normative Studies at the VU Amsterdam (2021-2023), responsible for conducting independent research and teaching at International Crimes, Conflict and Criminology MSc program. In 2017-2023 she was co-director of the Center for International Criminal Justice (CICJ, www.cicj.org), an interdisciplinary research centre at the VU Amsterdam.

    In 2017, Gabriele was awarded NWO Research Talent Grant to conduct doctoral research on insider witness assessments at international criminal courts and tribunals. In 2017-2021 she worked at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) in Amsterdam as a PhD candidate and was a fellow at the CICJ. She defended her dissertation in March 2022 and was awarded the Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation prize in 2023. Besides PhD research, in 2019, Gabriele was awarded (alongside a team led by Dr Anna Sagana of Maastricht University), a Constructive Advanced Thinking Interdisciplinary Research Mobility Grant for project ‘A Psychological approach to international criminal justice. Improving decision making in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.’

    In 2013-2017, Gabriele was analysis assistant with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, and in 2020-2021, she worked on the Independent Expert Review of the Rome Statute System as research assistant. Gabriele is an invited visiting scholar at the University of Toronto, and iCourts, University of Copenhagen.

  • Publications

    2026

    • Khalymon, S., Chlevickaitė, G., Kuryliuk, Y., Nikolaienko, T., & Stepanova, Y. (2026). War, martial law, and mobilisation: Exploring the characteristics of human smuggling at Ukraine’s borders in 2022–2023. European Journal of Criminology, 23(1), 110-134. https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708251318476 [details]

    2025

    • Chlevickaitė, G. (2025). Documenting conflict-related crimes in Ukraine: Civil society innovations, adaptations and networks in the accountability ecosystem. Journal of International Criminal Justice, 23(3-4), 523–543. https://doi.org/10.1093/jicj/mqaf020 [details]

    2024

    • Chlevickaitė, G. (2024). Selection on Universal Jurisdiction and the Crime of Aggression: the Challenges and Opportunities for JIT Member States. Polish Yearbook of International Law.
    • Chlevickaitė, G. (2024). Towards a Model of (Insider) Witness Assessments in International Crime Cases: An Experimental Vignette Study. International Criminal Justice Review, 34(1), 43-68. https://doi.org/10.1177/10575677221126903 [details]
    • van Dalen, M., Pallante, V., Sunde, H. M., Suonperä Liebst, L., Ejbye-Ernst, P., van Baak, C., Sexton, M., Thijs, F., Echelmeyer, L., van de Weijer, S., Pighini, L., Chlevickaite, G., Thomas, J., & Lindegaard, M. R. (2024). Covert Systematic Social Observations: A Method to Detect Ethnic Profiling in Police’s Selection of Citizens for Stop-and-Search. European Journal of Policing Studies, 7(4), 322-340. https://doi.org/10.5553/EJPS.000025 [details]

    2023

    • Chlevickaitė, G. (2023). What matters for assessing insider witnesses? Results of an experimental vignette study. International Journal of Evidence and Proof, 27(3), 192-210. https://doi.org/10.1177/13657127231178071
    • Chlevickaitė, G., Holá, B., & Bijleveld, C. (2023). Suspicious minds? Empirical analysis of insider witness assessments at the ICTY, ICTR and ICC. European Journal of Criminology, 20(1), 185-207. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370821997343

    2020

    • Chlevickaitė, G., Holá, B., & Bijleveld, C. (2020). Judicial Witness Assessments at the ICTY, ICTR and ICC. Journal of International Criminal Justice, 18(1), 185-210. https://doi.org/10.1093/jicj/mqaa002

    2019

    • Chlevickaite, G., Hola, B., & Bijleveld, C. (2019). Thousands on the stand: Exploring trends and patterns of international witnesses. Leiden Journal of International Law, 32(4), 819-836. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156519000396

    2016

    • Chlevickaite, G., & Hola, B. (2016). Empirical Study of Insider Witnesses' Assessments at the International Criminal Court. International Criminal Law Review, 16(4), 673-702. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718123-01604002

    2024

    Prize / grant

    • Chlevickaitė, G. (2023). Praemium Erasmianum dissertation prize.
    • Chlevickaitė, G. (2017). NWO Research Talent.

    Media appearance

    Talk / presentation

    • Chlevickaitė, G. (speaker) (6-12-2024). Lecture on Experimental methods in international justice, VU, Amsterdam.
    • Chlevickaitė, G. (speaker) (17-10-2024). The Changing Role of Victims and Witnesses in ICL, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
    • Chlevickaitė, G. (speaker) (22-7-2024). Summer school: Legal Skills in a Time of War, CEELI.
    • Chlevickaitė, G. (speaker) (12-7-2024). International justice and The Hague: The Law, the Institutions and the work of T.M.C. Asser Instituut.
    • Chlevickaitė, G. (speaker) (2-5-2024). Roundtable on investigations into crimes against journalists, World Press Freedom Day Conference 2024 - Side event.
    • Chlevickaitė, G. (speaker) (17-7-2023). Legal Skills in a Time of War, Central and Eastern European Law Initiative. https://ceeliinstitute.org/legal-skills-in-a-time-of-war/

    Others

    • Chlevickaitė, G. (participant) (24-10-2024). USAID International Conference “Justice in the Domestic Adjudication of War Crimes Cases” 2024. Participated in a panel on 'Strengthening the Domestic Legal Framework to Promote Accountability for War Crimes' (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Chlevickaitė, G. (participant) (2-10-2024). The principle of ne bis in idem in international criminal law. Moderated the lecture and panel discussion. (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICOQ3wDKo5k
    • Chlevickaitė, G. (participant) (6-4-2024). ASIL Annual Meeting 2024, Washington, DC. Convening and moderating The Hague Closing Plenary - Confronting impunity and safeguarding journalists in a global context. (participating in a conference, workshop, ...). https://www.asser.nl/about-the-asser-institute/news/asil-2024-hague-closing-plenary-confronting-impunity-and-safeguarding-journalists-in-a-g…
    • Chlevickaitė, G. (participant) (14-2-2024). [SCL Lecture] A typology of perpetrators of mass atrocities. Organised the event, moderated the lecture and panel discussion. (organising a conference, workshop, ...).

    2022

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