M. (Marina) Fortuna, Dr

As an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the University of Groningen, I study questions at the intersection of theoretical psychology, language and argumentation, and international law. My academic journey began with a PhD focused on mapping, categorizing, and describing the interpretive methods used by international courts to determine the content of unwritten customary rules. Today, I explore questions of violence within power asymmetries and the resulting psychological trauma. I aim to get to the bottom of the anatomy of human and State behavior, and to examine foundational questions of good and evil, power and violence, by looking at these questions through the lens of international human rights case law and broader public international law.

I hold a PhD degree in International Law from the University of Groningen, which I defended in 2023, titled ‘Interpretation of Customary International Law in International Courts’. I have previously obtained an LLM (cum laude) in Public International Law at the University of Groningen and an LLB (cum laude) at the Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania).

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