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Yvonne McDermott Rees is Professor of Law at the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, Swansea University in the United Kingdom. Yvonne is the author of, amongst others, Fairness in International Criminal Trials (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Proving International Crimes (Oxford University Press, 2024) and has published widely on matters of international criminal procedure and evidence. She currently leads the TRUE project, a large interdisciplinary project which examines the impact of the rise of deepfakes on trust in user-generated evidence of human rights violations. Yvonne is a Legal Advisor to the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and a Master of the Bench of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.