M. (Marina) Fortuna, Dr

As an assistant professor at the University of Groningen, Dr. Fortuna is involved in teaching the following courses:

• Introduction to International and European Law (1st year LLB)
• Public International Law (2nd year LLB)
• Research Seminar (2nd year LLB)
• United Nations Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement (LLM)
• International Institutional Law (LLM) - course coordinator as of September 2025
• International Dispute Settlement (LLM)
• Seminar International Law in the 21st Century (LLM)
• Introduction to International and European Law (Faculty of Arts, Bachelor's)
• Honours College Moot Court course (3rd year LLB)

Yearly she is also involved in supervising Bachelor and Master theses and up to June 2025 has supervised a total of 27 theses.

She is currently a PhD co-supervisor of a project on social media evidence before the ICJ.

She is interested in supervising LLB and LLM topics that fall under:

• international dispute settlement (particularly, evidence before international courts and fact-finding missions/commissions of inquiry),
• violence in contexts marked by power assymetries as human rights violations (especially domestic violence, obstetric violence, institutional violence in State care)
• the law and practice of international organizations.

In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she has dedicated her time to mentoring and training exceptional students for international moot court competitions. She has previously coached teams for the Helga Pedersen Moot European Court of Human Rights moot court competition (2024-2025; 2023-2024) and for the Telders (International Court of Justice) moot court competition (2023-2024). Two of the teams that she coached have not only qualified for the international rounds of these competitions, but also made it in the top 7 teams (overall or for one of the Applicant/Respondent) out of a total of 64 and 27 teams respectively.