[Paul Bradfield is a PhD candidate at the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway. He formerly worked as a lawyer in the Office of the Prosecutor at the ICC, and in Defence at the ICTY, ICTR and ICC. The views expressed above are entirely his own.] On Tuesday, Trial Chamber I of the international Criminal Court issued its...
[Jean Galbraith is a Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.] Today is the last day in a leadership role for a central figure in international criminal justice. Theodor Meron is finishing up his tenure as President of the successor Mechanism to the ICTY and the ICTR, after 18 years of full-time service at ICTY, ICTR, and now the...
[Madaline George, JD, is the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute Fellow at Washington University School of Law.] During the 17th Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the International Criminal Court (ICC), a side event was hosted on the Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) Initiative. The side event – The Initiative for a New Multilateral Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition for Domestic Prosecution...
[Dr. John Heieck is a criminal defense lawyer in the US and an independent researcher of genocide and human rights studies.] I want to reiterate my thanks to Opinio Juris and the International Commission of Jurists for holding this thought-provoking symposium on my new monograph A Duty to Prevent Genocide: Due Diligence Obligations among the P5. I especially want to thank...
[William A. Schabas is professor of international law at Middlesex University in London. He is also professor of international human law and human rights at Leiden University, emeritus professor of human rights law at the National University of Ireland Galway and honorary chairman of the Irish Centre for Human Rights.] John Heieck has produced a fine study on the duty to...
[Mohamed S. Helal is an Assistant Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law & Faculty Affiliate, Mershon Center for International Security Studies – The Ohio State University.] Introduction Dr. John Heieck’s A Duty to Prevent Genocide: Due Diligence Obligations Among the P5 is a lucid, well-argued, and extensively researched book. It is essential reading for academics and practitioners who have an interest...
[Jennifer Trahan is a Clinical Professor at the NYU Center for Global Affairs.] John Heieck is asking the right questions in his new book, A Duty to Prevent Genocide: Due Diligence Obligations Among the P5. Namely, how does one reconcile hard law legal obligations regarding the duty to “prevent” genocide with the inaction seen out of the UN Security Council as well as...
[Dr. John Heieck is a criminal defense lawyer in the US and an independent researcher of genocide and human rights studies.] As noted at the end of the last post, the analytical framework for A Duty to Prevent Genocide: Due Diligence Obligations among the P5 is as follows: first, what is the scope of the duty to prevent genocide and its...
[Dr. John Heieck is a criminal defense lawyer in the US and an independent researcher of genocide and human rights studies.] Before I begin, I would like to thank Opinio Juris and the International Commission of Jurists for hosting this online symposium on my new book A Duty to Prevent Genocide: Due Diligence Obligations among the P5. I would also like...
[Kingsley Abbott is the ICJ’s Senior International Legal Adviser for Global Accountability, and is based in Bangkok, Thailand. Twitter: @AbbottKingsley.] Later this month, the Fifth Committee of the UN General Assembly, responsible for budgetary and administrative matters, is likely to approve the budget for the “Ongoing Independent Mechanism” (OIM) for Myanmar created by resolution at the UN Human Rights Council last September....
I wasn't feeling particularly well on my recent long flight from Buenos Aires to Amsterdam, so I took advantage of my sickness to binge watch all eight episodes of BBC2's international criminal justice drama, Black Earth Rising, which focuses on the 1994 Rwandan genocide. I wasn't expecting much, because BER was billed as a drama about the ICC. But I was...
Facebook commissioned a human rights impact assessment into its presence in Myanmar by Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), which has recently released its report. While news outlets reported this as a mea culpa by Facebook regarding the use of its platform in contributing to atrocities in Myanmar – perhaps partly due to the product policy manager’s note in disseminating the report...