Dr Niki Siampakou

Researcher

  • Department:
    Researchers
  • Research strand: In the public interest: accountability of the state and the prosecution of crimes
  • Main fields of interest: Counter-Terrorism Critical Approaches to International Law International Criminal Law International Human Rights Law International Humanitarian Law Transitional Justice

Profile

Dr. Niki Siampakou is a researcher at T.M.C. Asser Instituut where she works on victims of international crimes and terrorism as well as on transitional justice initiatives to reconcile societies. She is part of the research strand 'In the public interest: accountability of the state and the prosecution of crimes'.  She has several years of experience in conducting research, providing evidence-based policy advice, counselling (international) institutions on international (criminal) law, international human rights law, and transitional justice.

Prior to her current position, Niki was a joint research fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) and T.M.C. Asser Instituut working on the appropriate legal responses against violent extremism and terrorism, with a particular focus on (inter)national criminal justice and human rights considerations. 

Between 2021 and 2023, Niki worked in the field of transitional justice as a research and training project manager at the IFJD-Institut Louis Joinet in France. She also participated in two field missions in the Central African Republic and in several conferences. Between 2016 and 2019, she was a contractual researcher (doctorante contractuelle) at Aix Marseille University. 

Niki holds a PhD in international criminal law (2020) and a master’s degree in public international law (2016) from Aix Marseille University and a bachelor’s degree in law from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2014) which included an Erasmus exchange at Lisbon School of Law of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2013). Her doctoral dissertation, entitled ‘Against all hopes: The untenable promise of reparations of the International Criminal Court’, provides a critical analysis of the ICC’s reparation mandate. During her PhD, she was a visiting scholar at New York University (JSD Program, 2018-2019) and the University of Amsterdam (ACIL, 2017-2018). She also interned with the Victims participation and reparations section of the International Criminal Court and the Greek Ministry of Justice. She speaks English, French, Spanish, Greek, and is currently learning Dutch.

Publications

M. Herbach and N. Siampakou, 'Faith and Fury: Rising Anti-Blasphemy Extremism in Europe and its Legal Implications' ICCT Analysis, 13 November 2024.

N. Siampakou, 'Transitional Justice and Terrorism: The Case of Sri Lanka', ICCT Policy Brief, 13 September 2024.

A. Dénouveaux and Siampakou N., 'Victim’s Involvement in P/CVE: Examples of Public Policies and Programmes in Prison and in Educational Systems', Radicalisation Awareness Network (European Commission), 15 April 2024.

N. Siampakou, 'Victims of Terrorism and Reparation: Applying the 2005 UN Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation', ICCT Policy Brief, 21 December 2023.

N. Siampakou, 'Time for a victim-centric approach in prosecuting sexual and gender-based violence committed by terrorists', ICCT Analysis, 21 August 2023.

N. Siampakou, 'Book Review : Christine Schwöbel-Patel: Marketing Global Justice: The political economy of international criminal law (Cambridge University Press 2021)', Annuaire français de relations internationales (2022), pp. 907-911.

J.P. Massias and N. Siampakou, 'Scotland : Transitional Justice to Deal with Economic Violence', Justiceinfo.net, 7 February 2022.

N. Siampakou and G. Ferrara (eds.), State Compliance with International Human Rights Law: State-of-the-art, Improvement and Challenges, Quebec Journal of International Law, Special Issue, June 2021.

G. Ferrara and Niki Siampakou, 'Introduction', Quebec Journal of International Law, Special Issue, June 2021, p. 1–9.

N. Siampakou, 'The Al Mahdi Reparations Order: Reparations for the Destruction of Cultural Heritage', L’Observateur des Nations Unies, Vol. 43:2 (2017), pp. 191-199.

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