Aaron Alfredo Acosta
Aaron Alfredo Acosta is a California attorney who specialises in international human rights and IHL. He currently works as a research assistant for co-investigator Camilo Sánchez on the Livelihood, Land and Rights project and is employed as a researcher at Dejusticia. From 2018 to 2019, Aaron spent a year at Dejusticia as a transitional justice research fellow, where his work primarily focused on holding economic actors accountable for crimes committed during the Colombian armed conflict. Before joining Dejusticia, Aaron studied at UCLA School of Law, where he received his Juris Doctor with a specialisation in international and comparative law.
Socials
Areas of Research
International humanitarian law; transitional justice; Colombia
Publications
- Aaron Acosta and Alejandro Jiménez Ospina, “International Humanitarian Law and Victims of Child Recruitment as Targets of an Attack” Dejusticia,8 September 2020.
- Aaron Acosta and Nelson Camilo Sanchez Leon, “Peace during Covid-19 in Colombia” Gender, Justice and Security Policy Paper (2020): 1-15
- Aaron Acosta and Nelson Camilo Sanchez Leon “Transitional Justice and the Role of Legitimacy in Informal Institutional Change,” Canopy Forum, July 2020.
- Aaron Acosta “Referring Venezuela to the ICC: A Tumultuous Shift in Latin American Politics?,” Justice in Conflict, 4 December, 2018.
- Aaron Acosta “Measuring Performance: A Case Study of Positive Complementarity Catalyzed During the Preliminary Examination Stage in Colombia” International Criminal Court Forum, 15 July, 2017.
