Fangyi Li
Thesis title: Transitional Justice, International Law, and Regional Particularism in Southeast Asia: An Analysis Focused on Victims’ Right to Justice
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Background
Fangyi is a PhD researcher at Edinburgh Law School. She researches on locally embedded views and practices of post-conflict justice in Cambodia and Timor-Leste, focusing specifically on global-local frictions in responding to legacies of mass atrocities. Fangyi was a visiting scholar at KU Leuven from March to May 2025, supported by the International Mobility Fund from the Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research (SCCJR).
Prior to joining the School, Fangyi worked at two international criminal tribunals - the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). She also did remote work for Africa Legal Aid (AFLA) - a Hague-based human rights NGO specialising in international criminal law and transitional justice. Fangyi holds an LLB and an LLM in international law from Jilin University in China, and a second LLM in human rights law from the London School of Economics (LSE).
Undergraduate teaching
I delivered tutorials and marked formative assessments for the following courses:
- International Law Ordinary, 2024/25; 2023/24
- Introduction to Global Crime and Justice, 2023/24
Postgraduate teaching
I designed and delivered a two-hour seminar (x2) on Transitional Justice for the MSc Course 'Responding to Global Crime and Insecurity' 2024/25.
Research summary
international criminal law, international humanitarian law, international law on use of force, everything about wars
Invited speaker
'Beyond the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: Tracing the Nexus between Buddhist Justice and Formal Transitional Justice Approaches'
- Research Seminar at KU Leuven Faculty of Law and Criminology (Leuven, May 2025).
'Reckoning with the Spirits of the Dead: Towards a Thicker Understanding of Transitional Justice through Local Cosmologies in Cambodia and Timor-Leste'
- ‘Transitional Justice & Human Rights Network Inaugural Workshop: Paradigms and Transformations in Transitional Justice and Human Rights’ (Birmingham, May 2025).
- 'Nottingham International Criminal Justice Conference' (Nottingham, July 2024).
- ‘Victims and Transitional Justice: Participation, Mobilisation, Resistance’, Ghent University (virtual, March 2024).
'Constructing a Sensory Alternative to the Ongwen Judgment' (with Raghavi Viswanath)
- Work-in-Progress Session of the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law (Edinburgh, April 2023).
- 'Lights and Shadows in the Ongwen Case at the International Criminal Court: Inter- and Multi-disciplinary Approaches', University of Jyväskylä (virtual, October 2022).
'Internships at International Criminal Tribunals - from Khmer Rouge to the Former Yugoslavia'
- 'Experience-Sharing Workshop on Opportunities at International Organisations', Jilin University Human Rights Research Center (virtual, April 2023).
Book Chapters
- Li, Fangyi. (accepted) "Beyond the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: Tracing the Nexus between Buddhist Justice and Formal Transitional Justice Approaches." In The Cambridge Handbook of Victim Engagement in Transitional Justice, edited by Tine Destrooper and Elke Evrard. Cambridge University Press.
- Viswanath, Raghavi, and Fangyi Li. (accepted) "Seeing Museums as Criminological Spaces of Colonialism: An Affective Tale of Two Museum Visits." In The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology, edited by Kate Herrity, Kanupriya Sharma, Janani Umamaheswar, and Jason Warr. Routledge.
Journal Articles
- Li, Fangyi. 2025. "Reckoning with the spirits of the dead: towards a thicker understanding of transitional justice through local cosmologies in Cambodia and Timor-Leste." The International Journal of Human Rights: 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2025.2519580.
- Viswanath, Raghavi, and Fangyi Li. 2023. "Constructing a Sensory Alternative to the Ongwen Judgment." International Criminal Law Review 23 (5-6): 804-831. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718123-bja10167.