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14 Oct

[Ambassador Beth Van Schaack is a Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University's Center for Human Rights and International Justice and served as the sixth U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice (2022–2025), advising the Secretary of State on preventing and responding to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Formerly the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Stanford Law School...

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14 Oct

[Margaret E. (Peggy) McGuinness is Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law, where she directs the LL.M. in Transnational Legal Practice. A former U.S. Foreign Service Officer and special assistant to Secretary of State Warren Christopher, she co-edited the award-winning Research Handbook on Law and Diplomacy (2022) and Words Over War: Mediation and Arbitration to Prevent Deadly...

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14 Oct

[Mark Klamberg is Professor of Public International Law at Stockholm University, chief editor of the Commentary on the Law of the International Criminal Court, a board member of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. He authored Evidence in International Criminal Trials and Power and Law in International...

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13 Oct

[Gregory S. Gordon is Professor of Law at Peking University School of Transnational Law and author of Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition (Oxford University Press, 2017). A former prosecutor with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the U.S. Department of Justice, including in the Office of Special Investigations and as a Special...

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13 Oct

[Emiliano J. Buis is Chair of Public International Law and an Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Law and Culture at the University of Buenos Aires. He is also a senior researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council / Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET).] Gregory S. Gordon’s Nuremberg’s Citizen Prosecutor: Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International...

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13 Oct

[Natasha Gooden is an assistant professor at the University of Birmingham.] Nuremberg's Citizen Prosecutor: Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International Justice is a fascinating book that intrigued me from the very first page to the very last. Professor Gregory Gordon expertly blends the development of international criminal law (ICL) and history through the lens of Benjamin Ferencz’s life and legacy...

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12 Oct

[Martha Minow is the 300th Anniversary University Professor and former Dean of Harvard Law School, where her scholarship focuses on human rights, justice, and the aftermath of mass violence. She is the author of numerous influential works, including Between Vengeance and Forgiveness (1998), and has served on multiple national commissions and boards addressing legal reform and social justice.] What can one...

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12 Oct

[Gregory S. Gordon is Professor of Law at Peking University School of Transnational Law and author of Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition (Oxford University Press, 2017). A former prosecutor with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the U.S. Department of Justice, including in the Office of Special Investigations and as a Special...

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12 Oct

[Lesther Antonio Ortega Lemus is a Guatemalan Lawyer and the Director of LexOceana, an Ocean Affairs and International Law practice based in The Hague. He has served as Guatemala's representative to several UK- and Netherlands-based international organisations (IMO, ISO, PCA, ICC, OPCW, et al.) and as Deputy Head of Mission and Acting Head of Mission at Guatemala’s Embassies in the...

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12 Oct

[Fadel Abdulghany is the Executive Director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) and a doctoral researcher in International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice at the University of Glasgow.] South Africa v. Israel before the International Court of Justice concerns the application of the Genocide Convention in the Gaza Strip. In a genocide case arising out of armed conflict, evidence...

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12 Oct

[Miraj Hosen is a Research Assistant at the Bangladesh Society of International Law.] On 6 July 2026, Bangladesh deposited instruments of accession to three International Maritime Organization liability treaties. The instruments were the 1992 Protocol to the Civil Liability Convention, the 2001 Bunkers Convention, and the 2007 Nairobi Wreck Removal Convention. The latest IMO status record lists those deposits, while the...

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