Ms. Herman received her MA in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International And Public Affairs in 2006, with a concentration in human rights. She holds a BA in Social and Political Sciences from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. She has worked in various capacities for UN-HABITAT and the United Nations Development Programme in Japan, Afghanistan and New York and has work experience with a number of international NGOs.

Her areas of research interests include transitional justice, peacebuilding and human rights. Her most recent research is on the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia, focusing on the participation of victims as civil parties and on the outreach efforts of the tribunal. She has also written on peacebuilding in Liberia and DDR and transitional justice. She has co-authored War, Conflict and Human Rights with her colleagues at the Centre and co-edited Peacebuilding and Rule of Law in Africa: Just Peace? and Surviving Field Research: Working in Violent and Difficult Situations.

Ms. Herman teaches the research workshops in the LLM module Current Issues and Research in International Law.