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01 Feb Reproductive Violence in Palestine: The Need for a Feminist Approach to Justice
...committed across Palestine. Crucially, our analysis cannot begin on 7 October 2023, but must consider the patterns of gender and reproductive violence that are integral to the infrastructure of Israeli apartheid and occupation. Within these systems women’s bodily and reproductive autonomy are systematically curtailed. As Ammal Awadallah, the executive director of the Palestinian Family Planning and Protection Association (PFPPA), has stated: what is happening now in Gaza is an accumulation of years of neglect and a lack of resources in Palestine’s health system, particularly reproductive care, as a result of...
20 Aug Muddying the Waters Still Further: A Response to Steven Kay and Joshua Kern
of Palestine by over two-thirds of UN members, its membership of international organizations and courts, and its accession to major multilateral treaties demonstrates that its statehood enjoys quasi-unanimous support. And we must remember that the recognition of Palestine in 2012 was not of a new state, but of a state that already existed, as Palestine had applied for membership in the UN in September 2011. A final word on self-determination. The UN Partition Plan, which was explicitly mentioned in Resolution 67/19, and in Palestine’s application for membership of the UN,...
10 Oct Rethinking International Law After Gaza Symposium: A Thought Experiment – What if we Tried to Organise the “Rethinking International Law after Gaza” Conference in the UK?
liberation movements classified as proscribed organizations. I then explain that despite the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism by many British universities in 2020, organising events on the conflict in Palestine that predated the adoption of the IHRA definition was already fraught with difficulties, as demonstrated by the cancellation of a conference at the School of Law at the University of Southampton almost a decade ago. I end by suggesting that the situation in the UK is in some ways worse when organising events on the Question of Palestine...
07 Oct Rethinking International Law After Gaza: A Symposium and a Call to Action
...in solidarity with those fighting for justice in Palestine. In the following essay, I offer brief remarks on the value of legal scholarship and conferences in challenging established power structures, the necessity of anti-zionist—by which I mean anti-racist—activism in the struggle to liberate Palestine, and the implications of an incontrovertible consensus beyond the West. Throughout, I draw on the symposium’s texts, which I had the pleasure of editing, and observations from the conference, which I was honoured to speak at. Activism and Critical Legal Scholarship International law has a Jekyll...
02 Nov The Unexpected Trade and Business Implications of Israel’s Attack on Al Haq
Myanmar. In such a circumstance, it can be impossible for businesses and third-party states to comply with human rights while operating in, or selling weapons to, that state. The Due Diligence Impact of Targeting Al Haq When it comes to business and human rights in Palestine, there is simply no substitute for Al Haq. I know of no other NGO based in Palestine with the knowledge and competency it has evidenced over the years. The impact of designating Al Haq a terrorist organisation is that the due diligence ecosystem is...12 Jul The ICC v. Peace? The Ugandan Standoff Continues
seems to think the ICC should arrest the LRA leaders, rather than Uganda itself. This is becoming a nearly impossible situation for the ICC. They plainly cannot withdraw the arrest warrants without serious criticism among their key supporters. But the ICC does not have the ability to actually arrest the wanted LRA leaders (indeed, this is why the Ugandan government is offering peace talks in the first place). Nor can the ICC grant amnesty and assure the LRA that they will never be subject to future arrests. What a mess!...
08 Aug Digital Evidence Before the ICC: Lessons from the Yekatom/Ngaïssona Judgment
the fact that some may have been generated for billing, tax or litigation purposes do not have an impact overall on the authenticity of the CDR. […T]hese differences do not necessarily mean that some CDR ‘are more genuine’ or more authentic than others.’ (para. 182). An Updated Lens on the ICC’s Submission Approach to Evidence As a final reflection, the judgment is an encouraging indication of how the ICC’s ‘submission’ approach to evidence, lauded for its convenience, can incorporate the discursive advantages of the admission approach. The submission approach entails...
07 Aug Emerging Voices: Taking Trump to the Hague – Can the ICC Prosecute Abuses on the US – Mexico Border?
its investigation into Myanmar on the crime of forced displacement, is the ICC opening the doors to an examination of various states’ immigration policies? (Almost certainly, Myanmar will argue that the Rohingya are not lawfully present in Myanmar—most Rohingya having had their citizenship stripped through a series of prejudicial citizenship laws—thereby requiring a future ICC inquiry into Myanmar’s domestic citizenship laws.) While immigration is an area historically relegated to the sovereignty of individual states, perhaps the ICC is signaling that even abusive immigration practices are not safe from international accountability....
23 Sep Symposium Exploring the Crime of Ecocide: Climate Change Crisis in the Pacific–What Role Can International Criminal Law Play?
...International Criminal Court (ICC).” In this way, these countries can contribute towards shaping the ICC’s role in promoting international justice to address serious crimes, which may extend to include ecocide. The appropriate international forum for criminalizing ecocide is the Assembly of State Parties to the ICC, which can amend the Rome Statute to include the crime. International criminal law has scope to prevent ecocide and other environmental crimes despite the legal, practical and conceptual challenges (see Sarlieve 2020; Mackintosh 2020) It is a new area of international law with an...26 Feb The Perils of Reducing International Lawyers to Their Nationality: A Response to Vamos-Goldman
its negative implications when the same Boris Johnson government had a national competing for perhaps the most important and visible international criminal justice position in the world: Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). UK Barrister Karim Khan has now been elected. The result is that the states parties to the ICC have rewarded a country that is undermining international justice. And some of the other players in the international community let it happen, without raising their voices. There is no question the UK is pleased the next Prosecutor will...