Lindsay Freeman

Bio

Lindsay Freeman is the Director of Technology, Law & Policy at the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law. Freeman is an American lawyer specializing in international criminal law and international humanitarian law with a focus on digital evidence and digital investigations. She led the drafting of the United Nations’ Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations and developed an OSI training course with the Institute of International Criminal Investigations. She has trained professionals at a number of organizations including Interpol, Europol, ICC, IRMCT, OPCW, UNODC, and OHCHR. She previously worked for the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and served as a trial lawyer for the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office; a law clerk for the U.S. Attorney’s Economic Crime and Securities Fraud Unit; and on the legal team representing victims in Case 002 at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Before becoming a lawyer, Freeman worked for Google and another tech start-up in Silicon Valley. She holds an Adv. LL.M. in public international law from Leiden University; J.D. from University of San Francisco School of Law; and B.A. in political science from Middlebury College.

Publications

March 19, 2024

Links in the Chain: How the Berkeley Protocol is Strengthening Digital Investigation Standards in International Justice

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October 26, 2023

‘Nor Is It Neutral’: New Technologies and the International Criminal Court

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March 23, 2021

Weapons of War, Tools of Justice: Using Artificial Intelligence to Investigate International Crimes

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May 8, 2019

Law in Conflict: The Technological Transformation of Warfare and its Consequences for the International Criminal Court

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March 1, 2021

Finding the Signal in the Noise: International Criminal Evidence and Procedure in the Digital Age

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June 1, 2021

Hacked and Leaked: Legal Issues Arising From the Use of Unlawfully Obtained Digital Evidence in International Criminal Cases

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June 1, 2022

Digitally Disappeared: The Struggle to Preserve Social Media Evidence of Mass Atrocities

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July 19, 2023

Seeing Through the Fog: The Impact of Information Operations on War Crimes Investigations in Ukraine

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July 1, 2023

Cutting-Edge Evidence: Strengths and Weaknesses of New Digital Investigation Methods in Litigation

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Commentary

Ukraine Symposium – Accountability for Cyber War Crimes, Articles of War (L. Freeman).

The Gravity of Russia’s Cyberwar against Ukraine, Opinio Juris (L. Freeman, A. Ghahremani, S. Lombardo).

Russian Cyberattacks Need an International Criminal Court Response, Center for European Policy Analysis (L. Freeman).

The Int’l Criminal Court’s Ukraine Investigation: A Test Case for User-Generated Evidence, Just Security (L. Freeman, R. Hamilton).