Franka Pues is a doctoral candidate in International Criminal Law researching digital evidence at the International Criminal Court. She is supervised by Dr Nicola Palmer and Professor Philippa Webb. Her research focuses on social media open source evidence, artificial intelligence, and procedural law.

Currently, Franka is a Teaching Fellow at UCL for the ‘International Legal Framework for Humanitarian Action’ module.

Previously, Franka was the YTL Graduate Fellow supporting the Centre’s activities. She was also a Visiting Lecturer in Transnational and International Criminal Law, delivering LLM lectures alongside Dr Nicola Palmer.

PhD Thesis

The Evidentiary Gaps in International Crimes Prosecutions: Questions of Admissibility of AI-derived Evidence from Social Media Open-Source Investigations

Supervisors

Dr Nicola Palmer

Professor Philippa Webb

Research Interests

• international criminal law
• international procedural law
• evidence
• technology