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17 Mar

Carly A. Krakow is a PhD Candidate in International Law and Judge Rosalyn Higgins Scholar at the London School of Economics and earned her MPhil in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge. Twitter: @CarlyKrakow. Acknowledgement: I am grateful to Gerry Simpson for his comments on an earlier version of this piece. Photo credit: Fibonacci Blue Is it possible...

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17 Mar

[Michael Kanu is the Deputy Permanent Representative for Legal Affairs at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Sierra Leone to the United Nations in New York. This essay was initially prepared at the request of FIU Law Review for its micro-symposium on The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone by Charles C. Jalloh (Cambridge, 2020). An edited and footnoted version is forthcoming...

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17 Mar

[Mark A.  Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director at the Transnational Law Institute of Washington and Lee University School of Law and a Visiting Scholar at Queen’s University Belfast. This essay was initially prepared at the request of FIU Law Review for its micro-symposium on The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone by Charles C. Jalloh (Cambridge,...

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16 Mar

[Alpha Sesay is a lawyer and advocacy officer with the Open Society Justice Initiative. This essay was initially prepared at the request of FIU Law Review for its micro-symposium on The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone by Charles C. Jalloh (Cambridge, 2020). An edited and footnoted version is forthcoming in Volume 15.1 of the law review in spring 2021.] Charles Jalloh’s elegantly written and original book on The Legacy of...

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16 Mar

[Simon M. Meisenberg has been working at several international(ised) criminal tribunals and has worked as a Senior Legal Officer at the SCSL on the AFRC, RUF and Charles Taylor case. Together with Prof. Charles Jalloh he is the co-editor of The Law Reports of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Brill, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2021) and has co-edited The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: Assessing their Contribution to International Criminal Law (Asser Press, 2016)....

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15 Mar

Stephen J. Rapp is a Senior Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Prevention of Genocide and at the Blavatnik School of Government of Oxford University. He was formerly Ambassador-at-Large heading the Office of Global Criminal Justice in the US State Department, and between 2007-2009, was the Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. This essay...

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15 Mar

[Stephen J. Rapp is a Senior Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Prevention of Genocide and at the Blavatnik School of Government of Oxford University. He was formerly Ambassador-at-Large heading the Office of Global Criminal Justice in the US State Department, and between 2007-2009, was the Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. This essay was initially prepared at the...

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15 Mar

[Charles C. Jalloh is a Professor of Law at Florida International University. He previously served as a legal adviser in the Special Court for Sierra Leone and is founder of the Center for International Law and Policy in Africa based in Freetown. His related works include, as editor, The Sierra Leone Special Court and Its Legacy: The Impact for Africa...

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15 Mar

Another great symposium is lined up for this and next week discussing Charles Jalloh's monograph, The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Cambridge, 2020). From the publisher: This important book considers whether the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), which was established jointly through an unprecedented bilateral treaty between the United Nations (UN) and Sierra Leone in 2002,...

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09 Mar

Siddharth S Aatreya is an Advocate (India) and Future Trainee Solicitor at the London office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. All opinions expressed here are strictly personal. Shamima Begum was born a British citizen in Britain. At the age of 15, she left Britain for Syria, where she joined the ISIL. She subsequently married an ISIL fighter in Syria and gave...

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09 Mar

Gabriella Citroni, Researcher in International Law and Adjunct Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Milano-Bicocca [gabriella.citroni@unimib.it] Photo credit: Al Jazeera Key words: Human Rights Committee, jurisdiction, right to life, search and rescue, migrants, high seas In a recent report, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions associated the Mediterranean Sea to an immense mass grave,...

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