Biography
Dr Viviane Dittrich is the Deputy Director of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy. Previously, she taught for several years at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), at Royal Holloway, University of London, and at Sciences Po Paris. Also, she has been Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies at the LSE, Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Visiting Researcher at iCourts, Centre of Excellence for International Courts at the University of Copenhagen, and at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. She has also been recognised as Fellow at the UK Higher Education Academy.
Her expertise lies at the intersections of politics and international law, focusing on international organisations, international criminal law, and the politics of memory. Her work has appeared in academic journals and edited volumes (e.g. Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press). She has conducted extensive research on the notion of legacy, life and death of international organisations, and the process of legacy building at the international criminal tribunals (ICTY, ICTR, SCSL, ECCC, ICC and IMT (Nuremberg)).
Dr Dittrich has been Series editor of the Nuremberg Academy Series (TOAEP) since 2017. Her books include: The Past, Present and Future of the International Criminal Court (co-edited with Alexander Heinze, 2021), Integrity in International Justice (co-edited with Morten Bergsmo, 2020) and The Tokyo Tribunal: Perspectives on Law, History and Memory (co-edited with Kerstin von Lingen, Philipp Osten and Jolana Makraiová, 2020). Her new book is an edited collection on The Nuremberg Principles at 70 (forthcoming, 2025).
She has previous work experience, as temporary staff or intern, at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (The Hague), German Embassy (Washington D.C.), Institute of International Education (Washington D.C.), U.S. House of Representatives (Washington D.C.), Bundestag (Berlin) and German Historical Museum (Berlin).
After studies in France, England and the United States (Wellesley College), she received an MSc in International Relations from the LSE and a Master’s degree from Sciences Po Paris. She holds a PhD from the LSE.
She is fluent in English, French and German and Spanish.