Author: Mischa Gureghian Hall

[Mischa Gureghian Hall is a Researcher and Senior Status student in Law at the University of Oxford, University College, and a Legal Assistant at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.] On 25 October 2024, Ukraine deposited its instrument of ratification of the Rome Statute with the UN Secretary-General, completing the process of ratification of the statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) which...

[Mischa Gureghian Hall is a W.M. Keck Research Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles] After a considerable delay, Trial Chamber X of the International Criminal Court (ICC) delivered its much-anticipated trial judgment in the Al Hassan case. While preliminary engagement with the judgment (including on this blog) has surrounded the Chamber’s unclear approach to gender-based persecution, it can be easy to...

[Mischa Gureghian Hall (X: @MischaGHall) is a Keck Research Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, researching international criminal justice and its intersections with international humanitarian and human rights law in conflict and post-conflict settings.] The author is grateful to Dr. Jared McBride for his assistance in the translation of Ukrainian documents. In an August 2023 essay, Russian-American journalist and activist Masha...