International Criminal Court Bar Association

AURÉLIE BERTHET

Admitted to the Paris Bar since 2003 and registered in England and Wales since 2015, Aurélie Berthet is also a Mediator, listed with several Courts of Appeal in France. A dual French-British national, she practices both locally and internationally, with a strong specialization in criminal law, asylum law, and international humanitarian law. With degrees in science, law, and mediation, and over 20 years of field experience, Aurélie Berthet teaches the fundamentals of the legal profession in law schools, having previously lectured in criminal law at the university level. A former Member of the National Bar Council (CNB) and several other representative bodies of the legal profession in France, Honorary President of the Paris Young Lawyers’ Union (UJA), and Honorary Member of the National Federation of Young Lawyers’ Unions (FNUJA), Aurélie Berthet approaches all entrusted tasks with passion and dedication.

ELISABETTA GALEAZZI

Elisabetta is an Italian Criminal Lawyer with nearly thirty years of experience as Defence Counsel and Counsel for Victims before national courts and higher jurisdictions. After completing an LL.M. in International Law and Human Rights, she was admitted to the List of Counsel of the International Criminal Court in 2012. For decades, she has served as Lead Counsel in serious criminal cases (Immigration Law, Domestic and International Law, EU Criminal Law, Computer and Cybercrime, Sexual Offences), and she is also a dedicated Human Rights defender. Elisabetta has been a member of several national and international bar associations and played an active role in the establishment of the ICCBA. In 2016, she served as an expert for the EU and the International Criminal Law Commission at the Italian Ministry of Justice. Currently, she is a member of the International Committee of the Bologna Bar Association, with responsibility for liaising with the ICC. She is also a trainer in mandatory continuing education programs for lawyers, and her articles on these subjects have been published. A former Chair of the ICCBA Membership Committee, Elisabetta has also served as a member of the Executive Council, as well as on the Victims Committee and the Defence Committee.

JESSICA LESCS

Jessica Lescs is a practising lawyer in France. She has been defending victims of international crimes, asylum seekers and refugees before national, regional and international courts and authorities for over ten years. She is currently particularly active in defending the families of Afghan refugees and foreigners shipwrecked in the English Channel and the Mediterranean sea. Former legal officer with the Pre-Trial Chambers of the International Criminal Court on the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Darfur, she worked on the Court's first decisions on victim participation and reparation. She also acted as legal counsel for Avocats sans frontières France before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) and in the Legal Affairs Division of the French Office for the Protection of Refugees. She was a member of the French coalition for the International Criminal Court. For nearly fifteen years, she taught international criminal law at University, and Sciences Po Paris, and for three years directed the training of Counsel on the ICC list.

EMMANUEL MOLINA

Emmanuel MOLINA is a French lawyer registered with the Marseille Bar and has been practicing as a specialist in Criminal Law for more than 20 years. Founder of MOLINA AVOCATS, member of the International Association of Lawyers (UIA) and the European Bar Association (AEA), holder of a PhD in criminal sciences, author of numerous publications in specialized journals, he has taught at the Faculty of Law of Aix-Marseille and has carried out several international missions under the aegis of Avocats Sans Frontières France, the International Observatory of Lawyers and the Agence Justice coopération Internationale, particularly in Latin America. Member of the ICCBA for about ten years, and particularly involved in subjects related to international cooperation and the conditions of practice of lawyers committed to the protection of human rights and the rights of the defense, he contributed in 2025 to the activities of the ICC and the ICCBA as an ad hoc member of the Disciplinary Committee.

KIMBERLEY CY. MOTELY

Kimberley Motley has been a litigator for 20 years, with a focus on international criminal law, human rights, and victim rights.  She is admitted lawyer in the ICC as Counsel, U.S. Supreme Court, Federal District Courts in Wisconsin, Colorado, and Oklahoma, the U.S. Appellate Courts in the 2nd, 4th, 7th, 9th, and 10th districts.  In 2008 she an international law practice in Afghanistan and became the first and only foreigner litigating in the criminal, civil, and commercial courts.  Her success has included securing a Presidential Pardon for an Afghan woman charged with adultery which subsequently decriminalized running away as a crime in Afghanistan, successfully working on international child abduction cases which resulted in the return of British and Australian children between the ages of 2 to 10, and representing the Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim. Her work has been internationally reported and she has trained and/or mentored thousands of lawyers around the world on how to practice law in their respective jurisdictions.  Additionally, her work was profiled in an award-winning documentary entitled MOTLEY’s LAW.  She has written a book entitled LAWLESS, and her TED TALK  on:  How  Defend the Rule of Law has garnered over a 1.2 million views.

CRISTINA PEROZZI

Lawyer since 1995 in Rome, I specialized in national and international criminal law (TRAWAW Project on Violence against Women; TALE Project on children defence) and I followed several cases of violence crimes defending victims before Supreme High Court in Rome and ECHR. I teach Human Rights international law, international humanitarian law and law of armed conflicts, military law and law of war violations in international missions and national courses for Italian Red Cross, Italian Defence University and Academies and Civilian Victims of War Association in Rome. I’m military legal advisor at Italian Defence Ministry and member of: Sanremo International Institute of Humanitarian Law; Rome Bar Commission of Criminal Military Law; International Society of military law and law of war; ECBA – European Criminal Bar Association; ADGI /FIFCJ – International Federation of Women in Legal Careers and ICCBA – International Criminal Court Bar Association. I’m working on Defence Ministry project on International PKO Italian Criminal Code, in Women Peace Safety Res ONU 1325 Course Net of Sapienza University in Rome and in an international criminal law and judicial cooperation in international crimes by Italian Justice Ministry and National Centre for Prevention and Social Defence Foundation. 

NATALIE VON WISTINGHAUSEN

Since being called to the Berlin Bar, Natalie von Wistinghausen specialises in criminal law as a trial advocate and has acquired wide-ranging legal experience in domestic and international legal criminal work. She was admitted to the List of Counsel at the ICC, the KSC, the STL and the MICT. Before the ICTR, she was Legal Assistant in the defense team of former Cabinet Minister Justin Mugenzi and in Germany, she was Lead Counsel in a case against Rwandan bourgmestre Rwabukombe who was accused of charges relating to the genocide. Besides her domestic work as defense counsel, she was assigned as Co-Counsel to protect the interests and rights of one of the accused in the in absentia proceedings of at the STL. She also worked as a Senior Rule of Law expert in the UK government project „Strengthening the Judicial System in Kosovo“. Since 2019 Natalie is representing Yazidi victims in universal jurisdiction cases against alleged „ISIS“ members before Higher Regional Courts in Germany. She has also filed criminal complaints on behalf of NGOs who are representing victims of chemical attacks in Syria as well as victims of international crimes committed in Ukraine. In October 2021, she was appointed as Common Legal Representative of Victims in the case against Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (situation in Darfur, Sudan) at the ICC.