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Author: Marina Aksenova

17 Dec

[Marina Aksenova is a Professor of international and comparative criminal law at IE University, Madrid, email: marina.aksenova@ie.edu.] I enjoyed reading Carsten Stahn’s Justice as Message (OUP, 2020). The work presents a carefully weaved tapestry of ideas surrounding the concept of expressivism in international criminal law. The book is undertaking an impressive task of bridging a normative gap between the ambition of international criminal law and its reality...

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07 Apr

[Marina Aksenova is a Professor of Comparative and International Criminal Law at IE Law School, Madrid.] Legal studies condition lawyers to think about international law as progressing in a linear fashion with the gradual evolution of its various institutions in parallel with the development of the body of applicable law – treaties, custom and the general principles of law. At the same time, if one looks at the...

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24 Sep

[Marina Aksenova is a Professor of Global, Comparative and European Law and Law, Politics and Economics at IE Law School.]   “The Seeds of Genocide” The image “The Seeds of Genocide” was created at my request by an artist Avital Legar with the idea of the legal prohibition of genocide in mind and with reference to the Genocide Convention. I am promoting use of this...

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