Barbora Hola

Barbora Hola is a Full Professor in Empirical Legal Studies of International Criminal Justice at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She holds concurrent roles as Senior Researcher at the NSCR and Full Professor at the A-LAB and Empirical and Normative Studies. Her research focuses on transitional justice post-atrocities, including international criminal trials, sentencing, rehabilitation of war criminals, and the intergenerational legacies of punishment. She leads the Atrocity Legacies project funded by a VIDI grant.

Education: Holds an LLM (not further specified).
Awards: 2017 WISE Fellowship for empirical studies of international criminal justice and 2021 VIDI Grant for intergenerational punishment research. Member of De Jonge Akademie since 2018.

Grants: VIDI Grant (2021) and WISE Fellowship (2017).
Collaborations: Co-chair of the European Society of Criminology Group on Atrocity Crimes (ECACtJ), affiliated with the Center for International Criminal Justice, and active in international organizations like NIAS Lorentz Center.

Publications: Over 60 works including books, chapters, and articles on transitional justice, sentencing practices, and post-conflict reconciliation. Recent focus on child informers in conflict zones and collaborative repression under communist regimes.