Lucy Geddes

Lucy Geddes is an Australian human rights lawyer who is currently reading the MSc in Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics as Lionel Murphy Foundation Postgraduate Scholar. She has worked across the civil and criminal law jurisdictions at Victoria Legal Aid in Melbourne and previously clerked for Chief Justice Mogoeng of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and for Justice Tarfusser of the International Criminal Court.

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Universal jurisdiction to the rescue: a way forward for victims of Franco-era crimes of gender-based violence?

Universal jurisdiction to the rescue: a way forward for victims of Franco-era crimes of gender-based violence?

Between the years of 1960 and 1974, Spanish lawyer and feminist activist Lidia Falcón O’Neill was detained seven times by security police on behalf of the Franco government, because of her protests against the regime. On five of these ...