Marta Pinto da Cruz is a PhD fellow in the Criminal Law section of the University of Amsterdam, and a member of the Amsterdam Center for Criminal Justice and the Amsterdam Center for International Law.

As part of the teaching staff for the International Criminal Law LL.M programme, she lectures on several topics ranging from comparative criminal law and procedure, to the procedural law of international criminal courts and tribunals, as well as European Union criminal law. 

Marta's doctoral research focuses on the centrality of carceral punishment in international criminal law, and falls within the broader area of international criminal law critique, with the ultimate aim of bolstering the legitimacy and consistency of the international criminal justice project. She works under the co-supervision of prof. dr. Göran Sluiter, dr. Sergey Vasiliev, and dr. Marieke de Hoon.

• Pinto da Cruz, M. (forthcoming, 2024) Commentary on the ICC Appeals Judgment in the case of The Prosecutor v. Bemba et al. Case No. ICC-01/05-01/13 A A2 A3 A4 A5, AC, 8 March 2018, in Klip, A., Freeland, S. & Deák, E. (Eds.) Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals - vol. 73. Intersentia.
• Pinto da Cruz, M. (2022) Torture and Other Forms of Ill-Treatment in Caeiro, P., Gless, S., Mitsilegas, V., Costa, M.J., De Snaijer, J., & Theodorakakou, G. (Eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminal Justice. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789902990.torture.ill.treatment