Carrie McDougall

Dr. Carrie McDougall (@IntLawCarrie) teaches and researches international law at the University of Melbourne, specializing in the jus ad bellum, international criminal law, and international humanitarian law. She returned to academia after nearly a decade working for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, where she served first as Legal Specialist and Assistant Director of the International Law Section in Canberra and then as Legal Adviser at Australia’s Mission to the United Nations in New York, where she also served as Vice President of the General Assembly’s Sixth Committee. She participated in the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression and the Rome Statute Review Conference, is the author of The Crime of Aggression under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (2nd ed., CUP, 2021), a member of the Council of Advisers of the Global institute for the Prevention of Aggression, and is currently one of a small group of experts advising the Government of Ukraine on the prosecution of crimes of aggression. She is also on LinkedIn.