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  1. Gravity of Crimes by Low-Ranking Perpetrators and Peacekeepers

    Article • September 2025, De Gruyter

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  2. Melanie O’Brien, Review of Melinda Rankin, De Facto International Prosecutors in a Global Era: With My Own Eyes

    Article • European Journal of International Law, February 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  3. Forced Marriage as a Crime Against Humanity at the International Criminal Court

    Article • International Criminal Law Review, August 2023, De Gruyter

    Valerie Oosterveld, Dr Melanie O'Brien, KATHLEEN M. MALONEY

  4. From Discrimination to Death

    Article • September 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  5. Gender Dimensions of Forced Marriage in International Criminal Law

    Article • July 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  6. Human Rights and Atrocities

    Article • March 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  7. Historic feminist intervention at the International Criminal Court—the appeals hearing in Prosecutor v Dominic Ongwen

    Article • Australian Journal of Human Rights, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  8. International Human Rights Law

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  9. Myanmar

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  10. Defining Genocide

    Article • November 2021, Brill

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  11. Genocide and the human right to freedom of religion

    Article • October 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  12. Genocide Perspectives VI: The Process and the Personal Cost of Genocide

    Article • December 2020, UTS ePress

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  13. The Rohingya crisis

    Article • November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  14. “There We Are Nothing, Here We Are Nothing!”—The Enduring Effects of the Rohingya Genocide

    Article • Social Sciences, November 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  15. Women’s voices get louder: Sexual harassment on our screens and in our workplaces

    Article • Alternative Law Journal, June 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  16. Defining Genocide

    Article • Journal of International Peacekeeping, April 2020, Brill

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  17. Criminalising Peacekeepers

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  18. The effect of the 2014 West Africa Ebola virus disease epidemic on multi-level violence against women

    Article • International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, September 2016, Emerald

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  19. ‘Don't kill them, let's choose them as wives': the development of the crimes of forced marriage, sexual slavery and enforced prostitution in international criminal law

    Article • The International Journal of Human Rights, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  20. Classifying Cultural and Physical Destruction: Are Modern Historical and Current Human Rights Violations in China Violations of International Criminal Law?

    Article • Criminal Law Forum, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  21. ‘Peacekeeper Babies’: An Unintended Legacy of United Nations Peace Support Operations

    Article • International Peacekeeping, May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Olivera Simic, Dr Melanie O'Brien

  22. Investigative Interviewing

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  23. Where Security Meets Justice: Prosecuting Maritime Piracy in the International Criminal Court

    Article • Asian Journal of International Law, November 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  24. Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial and Memory by Rene Lemarchand, ed.

    Article • Human Rights Review, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  25. Protectors on trial? Prosecuting peacekeepers for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Court

    Article • International Journal of Law Crime and Justice, September 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  26. Prosecutorial Discretion as an Obstacle to Prosecution of United Nations Peacekeepers by the International Criminal Court: The Big Fish/Small Fish Debate and the Gravity Threshold

    Article • Journal of International Criminal Justice, June 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  27. Sexual Exploitation and Beyond: Using the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to Prosecute UN Peacekeepers for Gender-based Crimes

    Article • International Criminal Law Review, January 2011, Brill

    Dr Melanie O'Brien

  28. The Ascension of Blue Beret Accountability: International Criminal Court Command and Superior Responsibility in Peace Operations

    Article • Journal of Conflict and Security Law, December 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Melanie O'Brien