Melinda Taylor, the lawyer reportedly under house arrest in Libya, graduated from the University of Queensland with an arts/law degree – and with her sights apparently set on an international career.
She eventually went on to work as a lawyer for the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The ICC, based in The Hague, is the first permanent international court capable of trying individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes when national courts cannot or are unwilling to do so.
According to a profile on the University of Pittsburgh School of Law website, Ms Taylor established the ICC Office of Public Counsel for the Defence in 2006.
Part of that office’s job is to represent and protect the rights of the defence during the first stages of an investigation.
According to legal journal The Lawyers’ Weekly, early in her career Ms Taylor spent time as an intern at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
The Pittsburgh University School of Law website says she previously worked as a defence consultant at the defence office for the War Crimes Court in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ms Taylor has also worked on defence cases before the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
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