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Dr. Sanar Taha Darwish

Dr. Sanar Taha Darwish

Lecturer(Law)

[email protected]

Main Building, BIU Campus

Dr. Sanar Taha Darwish is lecturer of International Law at the Ӱֱ (BIU), specializing in International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Justice, and Human Rights Law. Former Legal Adviser for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Iraq (2017–2025), with extensive experience delivering academic lectures and trainings on IHL across Iraqi universities. Awarded Best Oralist at the 2014 Philip C. Jessup Moot Court and ranked first in the Advanced International Course on “International Criminal Jurisdiction Involving Children in Armed Conflict.” Co-author of Protection of Children in Armed Conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Yemen and contributor to the Arabic translation of the Commentary on the Rome Statute (CILRAP).

Education

PhD in International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law

Islamic University of Lebanon.

LLM Master of Laws in International Criminal Justice

University of Turin and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, Turin, Italy.

LLB Bachelor of Laws

Salahaddin University, Erbil-Kurdistan Region.