Dr. Marta Bo is a Senior Researcher at the Asser Institute, Associate Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and Research Fellow at the Graduate Institute for International and Development studies (Geneva).
Her research focuses on emerginng military technologies, autonomous weapons systems and their compliance with international humanitarina law; criminal responsibility for war crimes committed with autonomous weapon systems; AI and criminal responsibility; automation biases and mens rea for crimes committed with autonomous or automated systems; disarmament and criminalisation.
Marta is responsible for the Asser-Cassese Initiative long-term capacity-building training project for judiciaries in international and transnational criminal law (ICL and TCL), international humanitarian law (IHL) and human rights law (HRL).
She has published on international and transnational criminal law, law of the sea and human rights, artificial intelligence and criminal responsibility, autonomous weapons.
Background:
Marta holds a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Bologna and an LL.M. in public international law from the University of Leiden. She completed her Ph.D. in international law (2015) at the University of Genova on the topic of human rights violations in the current practice concerning the arrest and prosecution of pirates.
Interests and work:
Marta’s areas of interests are artificial intelligence and criminal responsibility (in particular for war crimes); cognitive biases and criminal reponsibility; international and transnational criminal law; international criminal procedure; the law of the sea and human rights; ICC and complementarity.
She lectured in several universities, including the University of Amsterdam, the University of Pavia and Bocconi University (Milan).
Marta is a qualified lawyer and she has acquired varied working experience in international criminal tribunals (ICC and ICTY) and NGOs (International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, Peace and Justice Initiative and Antonio Cassese Initiative).
For the Antonio Cassese Initiative Marta has developed, coordinated and implemented capacity-building and training projects in international and transnational criminal law, international humanitarian law and human rights law.
