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25 Sep Palestine and the ICC: Some Notes on Why It Is Not a Closed Chapter
[Dr. Chantal Meloni works at the University of Milan and is a von Humboldt scholar in Berlin. She is the co-editor of Is there a Court for Gaza?, T.M.C. Asser 2012)] The question that many scholars are dealing with in the past months, following the 3 April 2012 update by the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP), is whether the Palestine-ICC chapter should be regarded as closed. In this short analysis I intend to delineate why, in my opinion, the Palestine-ICC chapter is far from over. The issue is of particular...
09 Jul Never Two Without Three: On the – To Be Reopened – ICC Preliminary Examination in Iraq
[Chantal Meloni is Associate Professor of International Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Milan (Italy) and is Senior Legal Advisor at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) of Berlin. T he author worked on the submission in her capacity as senior legal advisor for international crimes at ECCHR.] On 1 July 2021 an important request was submitted to the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC by the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), to seek a review of the Prosecutor’s decision, which...
01 Dec Complementarity Is No Excuse: Why the ICC Investigation in Libya Must Include Crimes Against Migrants and Refugees
[Chantal Meloni is International Criminal Law Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Milan (Italy) and Senior Legal Advisor at ECCHR (Germany). In this capacity she has worked at the Communication that was submitted to the ICC on the crimes against migrants and refugees in Libya. Xuchen Zhang is a Research Fellow at ECCHR. In this capacity she has worked at the Communication that was submitted to the ICC on the crimes against migrants and refugees in Libya.] On 23 November 2021, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal...25 Jan Weekend Roundup: January 18-25, 2014
...executed Edgar Tamayo, a Mexican national, earlier this week; Roger posed the question about whether the presumption against extraterritoriality only apply to the alien tort statute or also to the underlying federal common law claims in the Kiobel decision and Kevin gave us his new e-mail address as he transitions to SOAS in London. Additionally we’ve featured stellar guest posts: one from Chantal Meloni, analyzing the latest communication to the International Criminal Court about allegations of torture carried out by UK forces against Iraqi detainees from 2004-2008; a piece from...08 Dec Open Statement by University Law Teachers on Academic Freedom
...Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Maxine Eichner, Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina Law School, US Mario Prost, Keele University School of Law, Keele University, UK Ruth Marshall, Associate Professor, University of Toronto,Canada Chantal Meloni, International Criminal Law Professor, University of Milan Law Faculty, Italy Andrea Caligiuri, Associate Professor of International Law, University of Macerata Law Department, Italy Thomas Phillips, Senior Lecturer in Law, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom Luigi Daniele, Senior Lecturer in Law, Nottinghan Law School, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom Emily Kidd...
03 Feb ICC and Palestine Symposium: ‘Sometimes They Come Back’: The Question of the ICC’s Territorial Jurisdiction in Palestine
[Triestino Mariniello is Senior Lecturer in Law and Coordinator of the Research Unit in ‘International Justice and Human Rights’ at Edge Hill University, UK. Chantal Meloni is Associate Professor at the University of Milan, Italy where she teaches International Criminal Law and Senior Legal Adviser to the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Germany.] This Symposium on ‘The Question of the ICC’s Territorial Jurisdiction in Palestine’ follows the most recent developments that concluded the preliminary examination into the ‘Palestine situation’: On 20 December 2019, the ICC Prosecutor found that there...