Aldo Zammit Borda

Aldo Zammit Borda is a Professor of Law specialising in international criminal justice and transitional justice. His research examines the intersection of law, history, and accountability in international criminal courts and tribunals, with particular focus on accountability for mass atrocities and victim-survivor participation.

In July 2025, Zammit Borda (Co-Lead) was awarded funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for a landmark research project on ‘Addressing Gaps in Genocide Accountability, the “Victim-Survivor” Complex, and New Participatory Methods’ (UKRI2783).

His research has been published in world-leading, legal and interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journals, including International Affairs (accepted, forthcoming 2026), American Journal of International Law, Modern Law Review, European Journal of International Law, Leiden Journal of International Law, Melbourne Journal of International Law, Nordic Journal of International Law, Human Rights Law Review, Journal of International Criminal Justice, International Criminal Law Review, Journal of Genocide Research, and the International Journal of Transitional Justice, amongst others.

Zammit Borda’s monograph, Histories in International Criminal Courts and Tribunals (TMC Asser Press 2020), engages with the concept of responsible history in international criminal adjudication. The book has been received to critical acclaim. The Leiden Journal of International Law described it as ‘novel, nuanced and persuasive’, noting that it goes beyond theoretical debates to ‘persuasively argue that ICTs are currently writing a history that is listened to and that they must do that responsibly.’ The International Criminal Law Review held that ‘Zammit Borda’s book makes an important and timely contribution to the debate concerning the history-writing function of the ICTs.’ The Cambridge International Law Journal stated that ‘Borda’s book is a significant contribution for its thorough examination of the various approaches (both expansive and restrictive) to history-writing as well as their concomitant limitations when deployed by ICTs.’ The Commonwealth Judicial Journal praised it as a ‘comprehensive (and extensively footnoted) monograph’, whilst a review in the Journal of International Criminal Justice commended his ‘excellent knowledge of international criminal law’ and described the work as ‘thought-provoking’ and ‘a very important input to a field of research that has not seen enough contributions.’