Lead Researcher of the Project

Immi Tallgren is Senior Researcher at the  (Helsinki) and PI/ lead researcher of the project The End of International Law (As We Know It)? 'Women' and the Construction of another International Order. She was previously Senior Lecturer of Public International Law at the University of Helsinki; from 2019 - 2021 Visiting Fellow at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law; as well as from 2014 to 2018 Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, LSE. She is associated member at the Centre de droit international, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium).

Immi has a background as a professional of public international law. She has worked for the Foreign Service, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland; the Legal Unit of the European Police Cooperation Organisation (The Hague); the European Space Agency Legal Department (Paris) and the European Space Agency Office for Cooperation with the EU Institutions (Brussels). From 1995 - 1999 she participated as a governmental delegate in the negotiations of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and subsequent legal instruments in the frame of the United Nations. 

Immi's research has focused on international criminal law and international cooperation in criminal matters, history of international law, law & film, law & media, as well as gender history. She has published over 30 articles and book chapters, as well as reviews and media articles. She has edited and co-authored books, most recently: 'The New Histories of International Criminal Law: Retrials' (OUP, 2019) with Thomas Skouteris; 'The Dawn of a Discipline: International Criminal Law and Its Early Exponents' (CUP, 2019) with Frédéric Mégret and 'Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces?' (OUP, forthcoming 2022).

Immi's academic work is driven by a commitment to critical interdisciplinarity and a quest to reach audiences beyond the academic context. Her current research project aims at producing alternative, gender-sensitive narratives of the past – and future – of international law and international lawyers, in a broad international collaboration with multidisciplinary international scholars.

For a list of her publications, please see Immi Tallgren's .