Marina Lostal

Dr Marina Lostal – Senior Lecturer at the Law School of the University of Essex (UK) and and co-deputy Director of its Human Rights Centre.

Dr Marina Lostal is a Senior Lecturer at the Law School of the University of Essex (UK) and and co-deputy Director of its Human Rights Centre. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence and an LLM from the University of Cambridge. She is admitted to the Bar in Spain and is also an accredited mediator. She specialises in the rights of victims in international criminal justice, the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflict and animal law.

Between 2017 and 2020 she served as a ‘reparations expert’ for the International Criminal Court.

She has worked as a consultant for several organisations, including UNESCO and Geneva Call, and has experience conducting training on IHL to the military, peacekeepers, and armed non-State actors. She has developed the UNESCO guidelines for the protection of cultural property in armed conflict (forthcoming) and is author of International Cultural Heritage Law in Armed Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2017). The rest of her publications can be accessed here.