An experienced international criminal attorney and investigator, she has nine years international humanitarian law experience in Darfur, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Kosovo, Croatia, Chechnya, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Gambella, Ethiopia. Maxine has written and lectured on international humanitarian law and human rights law. She has also provided formal and informal technical support, training and guidance to prosecutors, police, military, international and local IGOs and NGOs, and community-based organizations in the fields of international humanitarian and human rights law, investigation and prosecution of sexual and gender-based violence, international criminal tribunals, and international criminal investigations.