Kjersti Lohne currently works at the Department of Criminology and the Sociology of Law, University of Oslo. Her research interests lie at the intersections of war, crime and humanitarianism. While trained as a criminologist, she works across disciplines of criminology, international relations, international law and sociology of law. Her book 'Advocates of Humanity: Human Rights NGOs in International Criminal Justice' is coming out with Oxford University Press in November 2019. Other research projects include the US military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, where she conduced field research in 2016, technologizing the struggle against mass violence, and judicialization of Scandinavian civil society.