Mw. Mr. Tamara Nicolle Lewis Arredondo
Bouillonstraat 1-3
Room D0.215
Maastricht
P.O. Box 616
NL-6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)43 3884500
Fax: + 31 (0)43 3884868
E-mail: tamara.lewis@maastrichtuniversity.nl
List of publications: Metis
Curriculum Vitae
Tamara Lewis is a jurist from the United States of America holding a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (B.S.F.S) from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service with a specialization in International Politics: International Politics, Law and Organizations, a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Columbia University School of Law and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Criminal Law and the Law of Human Rights from Universiteit Utrecht, in the Netherlands. In 2008, Miss Lewis was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship by the Netherlands Fulbright Commission. She conducted research and wrote a thesis entitled “Fair Trial Guarantees of the Iraqi High Tribunal Statute.” Miss Lewis became affiliated with the Faculty of Law at Universiteit Maastricht in September 2009 as a researcher in the Department of European and International Law. Her doctoral research focuses on the Universal Periodic Review mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Council. More specifically, Miss Lewis will examine how a peer review approach to monitoring human rights obligations adds value to the supervisory aspect of the UN Human Rights machinery and to the international discourse on human rights.
Expertise
- Public International Law
- International Criminal Law
- International Human Rights Law
