Sarah Zarmsky is a Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast School of Law with a research focus on the intersections between international law, human rights, and new and emerging technologies. Sarahs work has been published in outlets such as the Journal of International Criminal Justice and presented at multiple conferences and events, including the 2022 ABILA International Law Weekend, where she was recognized as an Emerging Voice in the field of international law. Her research has been cited in multiple books and journal articles, including by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, and she has been interviewed for multiple major media outlets, including Wired Magazine and Reuters. Sarah has also advised platforms such as Meta on content moderation policies, and liaised with non-governmental organisations on the development of protocols for emerging issues related to international law in a digital age, such as for the use of audio evidence in ICL trials or online investigations of conflict-related sexual violence. She is also a co-author of a guide for judges and fact-finders on evaluating open source imagery, launched in May 2024.

Sarah completed her PhD at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre, which was funded by the Modern Law Review Scholarship (2023-2024 and 2024-2025).  She received her LLM in Public International Law at Leiden University in The Netherlands. Sarah has held positions at the International Criminal Court, the International Bar Association (ICC & ICL Programme Office and the Legal Policy and Research Unit), and the International Court of Justice. She is also trained in conducting open source investigations, and has assisted with open source research, trainings, and writing reports for multiple organisations. In addition, Sarah is Deputy Managing Editor of the international legal blog Opinio Juris. In February 2023, she convened the well-received Symposium on Fairness, Equality and Diversity in Open Source Investigations with Opinio Juris, and is a regular organiser of its Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law.

international criminal law, international humanitarian law, human rights law, law and technology, open source investigations, artificial intelligence 

Sarah currently teaches Criminal Law and Evidence at QUB. She is also involved with the postgraduate open source investigations clinic at the university which partners with Global Legal Action Network (GLAN).