[2] As part of her role as a Human Rights Watch associate director, Jarrah leads the International Justice Program's research and advocacy team on universal jurisdiction.
[6] She criticized of the lack of accountability in past conflicts which gave actors in Syria "no reason to change their behavior", explaining that transitional justice measures should complement, not substitute prosecutions.
[8] She has also argued that there is legal precedent supporting the jurisdiction of parties to the Convention against Torture to bring Syria before the ICJ under the treaty, regardless of whether they had been directly impacted by violations.
[10] In November 2023, after the ICJ issued binding provisional measures to prevent Syria's violations of the international Convention against Torture, Jarrah described the ruling as "a matter of life or death for many Syrians".
[11] In January 2024, amid the ongoing Israel–Hamas war, Jarrah argued that the ICJ's issuance of binding provisional measures in response to South Africa's genocide case was "unprecedented" and called for their immediate implementation.