Talita de Souza Dias

About/Bio

Dr Talita Dias is the International Policy and Government Lead at Partnership on AI, where she leads the work on global AI governance and government affairs. Prior to joining PAI, Talita was the Senior Research Fellow in the International Law Programme at Chatham House – The Royal Institute of International Affairs, where she led research and policy engagement on how international law applies to new and emerging technologies, including cyber, online platforms and AI. Talita is an international lawyer with over a decade of combined policy and research experience. Through her work, has collaborated with a range of governments and multilateral institutions, including the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the African Union, the European Union External Action Service, and the International Criminal Court. Talita is the co-author of the Handbook on Developing a National Position on International Law and Cyber Activities: A Practical Guide for States (CCDCOE, 2025) and the author of Beyond Imperfect Justice: Legality and Fair Labelling in International Criminal Law (Brill, 2022). She holds a DPhil and a master’s degree in law from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Laws from the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil, where she is a qualified lawyer.

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The ‘Security Council Route’ to the Derogation from Personal Head of State Immunity in the Al-Bashir Case: How Explicit must Security Council Resolutions be?

Last week, the Appeals Court of the International Criminal Court (ICC, the Court) held hearings in relation to Jordan’s Appeal from a decision of Pre-Trial Chamber (PTC) II holding that it has failed to cooperate with the Court in the arrest and surrender of Sudan’s President, Omar Al-Bashir. As is well known, Al-Bashir is presently…

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