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19 Dec To Be Responsible for Ourselves: Dominic Ongwen and Defences Before the International Criminal Court
...dilemma for the Court, the Prosecutor and, indeed, all with a vested interest in international criminal justice: When boy soldiers become adults and then, commanders, how do we deal with the aftermath of the crimes they commit? Should they be tried for all the crimes committed from childhood onwards, those committed in adulthood, or those that were committed while they were in command? Arguably this is where the issue of defences under the Rome Statute ought to play a role; could the defences be used to exonerate the individual or...
03 Jun Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law in South Sudan: Possible Actions by Kenya and Uganda
...evident in the continued search by international organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations (UN) for ways to strengthen compliance with IHL. Trends in international security policy in the last two decades indicate growing recognition of the need for a collectivist approach to prevention and repression of violations of IHL. This is an approach whereby all States, irrespective of whether or not they are directly involved in or affected by an armed conflict, have a duty to prevent and punish violations of...04 Jan Separatists vs. Pirates!
...Somaliland and Somalia was never ratified and also malfunctioned when it went into action from 1960 to 1990, makes Somaliland’s search for recognition historically unique and self-justified in African political history. Objectively viewed, the case should not be linked to the notion of ‘opening a Pandora’s Box’. As such, the AU should find a special method of dealing with this outstanding case… So now Kosovo, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Somaliland are all “unique” cases… Anyway, it will be interesting to observe how security policy and recognition issues affect each other....28 Nov George Kennan, International Lawyer?
...quick search within Westlaw’s JLR database yields 394 citations to George Kennan, 132 specifically to his book, American Diplomacy (admittedly, at least one of those is mine). To start with, one could talk about his signature policy. What were the international law implications of a containment policy that divided the word into two separate spheres? In what ways was international law mobilized as an instrument of that policy? To what extent were jurisprudential schools/approaches shaped by realities of containment? In current terms, our containment policies have taken on an increasingly...
10 Sep Contemporary International Criminal Law After Critique Symposium: Visuality and Visibility in the Quest for New Critical Registers – Probing the Ecocide Aesthetic
[Daniel Bertram is a PhD candidate at the Department of Law, European University Institute. George Hill holds an LLM from the Department of Law, European University Institute and currently works as a researcher in London.] “International criminal law is dead, long live international criminal law!” There is an almost schizophrenic air to much contemporary discourse about the role of international criminal law (ICL) in world politics. In the scholarly world of scientific journals, academic conferences and classroom debates, ICL has come to be viewed with suspicion. From prosecutorial choices to...