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Author: Mark Chadwick

19 Aug

Emerging Voices: Theorising Universal Jurisdiction–Time to Reappraise the “Piracy Analogy”?

[Mark Chadwick is a Lecturer in Law at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University.] Universal jurisdiction remains a contested area of international law.  By permitting domestic legislatures and courts to exercise jurisdiction over heinous international crimes, regardless of “where the crime was committed, the nationality of the alleged or convicted perpetrator, the nationality of the victim, or any other connection to...

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