Catherine Harwood is a Ph.D. Researcher at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University, under the co-supervision of Professor Carsten Stahn and Professor Larissa van den Herik. Her doctoral research analyses links between international commissions of inquiry and international criminal justice, and explores commissions' engagement with fields of international law. Ms. Harwood holds an LL.M. in Advanced Studies in Public International Law from Leiden University, and an LL.B (Hons) and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.