Association du Barreau près la Cour Pénale Internationale

Florent Pages-Granier has been working as Legal Consultant for the Yekatom Defence Team since 2019. He graduated from the Ecole de Formation des Avocats Centre Sud (EFACS) at the end of 2018, as part of this formation he worked as a trainee lawyer in law firms in France, as well as conducted a six months internship in the Merhi Defence Team at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. His law course was completed at the Law Faculty of the University of Montpellier, in which he completed a Master 1 Droit Pénal et Sciences Criminelles, as well as a Master 2 Droit des Contentieux. 

Sabrine is qualified as a lawyer in France. She has been working as a case manager and legal assistant for the Yekatom Defence team (CAR) since 2019. She studied international law and transitional law at Aix-Marseille University and at the University of La Sapienza in Rome. She worked as a legal trainee for a Human Rights NGO in Beirut and subsequently interned at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (Appeals Chamber and Presidency) and at the International Criminal Court with the Defence for Mr Blé Goudé (CIV). 

Eva Kalb is a French and Dutch jurist in international criminal law who has been a part of Mr. Abd-Al-Rahman’s Defence team at the ICC since November 2021. Prior to being a Legal Assistant in the Abd-Al-Rahman Defence, she started her international career as an intern in the Defence team of Mr. Patrice-Édouard Ngaïssona. Eva holds an LLM in International and Transnational Criminal Law from the University of Amsterdam (Cum Laude) as well as two Masters respectively in International and European Law as well as French and English Law both from the Université Paris X Nanterre. She also holds an LLB from the University of Essex in French and English law, obtained with First Class Honours. Eva’s domestic experience in France includes working alongside a criminal lawyer in Paris (Cabinet 7bac) and with investigative judges at the Tribunal Judiciaire of Nanterre (France). She speaks English, French and Spanish fluently.

Dr. Poorhashemi est un expert reconnu devant la Cour Pénale Internationale (CPI), où il fournit une expertise spécialisée en droit pénal international, droit international de l’environnement, droit international des droits de l'homme et droit humanitaire international. Il est également Président de l'Institut Canadien pour l'Expertise en Droit International (CIFILE), un poste qui s'aligne avec sa carrière distinguée dans le domaine du droit international public. Dr. Poorhashemi possède une vaste expérience en tant qu’universitaire, praticien et enseignant, notamment dans le droit pénal international et le droit de l’environnement, avec de nombreuses publications à son actif. Il occupe également le poste de rédacteur en chef du Journal de Droit International de CIFILE (CJIL), reflétant son engagement à promouvoir la recherche juridique. Il a obtenu son doctorat en droit international à l'Université de Strasbourg en 2005, suivi d’une bourse postdoctorale en Droit International et Mondialisation à l'Université UQAM, au Canada, en 2013. Il a été professeur assistant à l'Université des Sciences et de la Recherche (IAU) pendant plus de dix ans, où il a enseigné le droit international, l’arbitrage et le règlement des différends internationaux. Ses activités juridiques s'étendent à plusieurs juridictions, où il a occupé divers postes de conseiller juridique, avocat et expert, contribuant ainsi au développement du droit international à l’échelle mondiale.

My name is Hélène Raïs and I am a Swiss jurist, currently member of the ICCBA Working Group on AI. If I have originally studied criminal and international law at the university of Lausanne in Switzerland, I have recently developed an expertise in Artificial Intelligence through the course of my career in a technology company based in Rotterdam. The use of AI in legal proceedings has considerably increased throughout the years, which undoubtedly started to raise essential concerns among practitioners. Aside from the ethical considerations and the compliance with Data Protection Regulations related to the use of AI, how can a human based science be left at the mercy of a non-human analyst? Moreover, how can one ensure that certain nuances and subtleties are considered in circumstances which may sometimes depend on one's creativity? Will this new technology lessen the defendants/victims' trust in the legal system? The necessity for legal practitioners to extend their knowledge beyond their practice area has led me to examine the possibility to create a bridge between law and AI. It is therefore with great motivation that I wish to join the Council Support Staff Committee and help addressing key topics for the Staff’s interests.

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Barbara Szmatula is a French jurist working at the International Criminal Court (ICC). She has been working as a Case Manager in the Defence team for Mr Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona before the ICC since January 2020. Barbara studied international law at Panthéon-Assas Paris II and University of Warsaw for a semester, as well as history of art at Université Sorbonne Paris-IV. After obtaining her Masters of International Public Law in Paris, she joined the Defence team of Mr Charles Blé-Goudé before the ICC and worked on various projects related to international law and international politics. She was also an intern for jus Mundi, a legal-tech company dedicated to international law. Barbara speaks French, English, Polish and is currently learning Dutch.