Academic Collaborator

Jadé Botha is a PhD Researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and previously a visiting researcher at the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Jadé holds an LLM (cum laude) in International and Transnational Criminal Law from the University of Amsterdam and an LLM in Comparative, European and International Law from the EUI. She was previously the Research Coordinator and a Research Associate for the Contested Histories Initiative at the Insitute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation. As well as a Project Manager at the European Association of History Educators.

Her PhD examines the epistemological foundations of African Union approaches to international justice. Her core research themes include International Criminal Law, Transitional Justice, African Philosophy and Epistemology.