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15 Oct

[Siobhán McInerney-Lankford is a human rights lawyer who serves as Head of Unit (Equality, Inclusion and Sustainability) and Legal Task Force Chair at the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. The opinions expressed in this piece are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to the EU FRA.] Introduction This post considers the ICJ Advisory Opinion on The Right to Strike...

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15 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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15 Oct

Let’s start with the obvious: with Nuremberg’s Citizen Prosecutor, Professor Gregory Gordon has written the definitive biography of Ben Ferencz, one of the most important figures in the history of international criminal law. The book is compulsively readable, with the ideal balance of, for lack of a better description, the personal and the legal. In terms of the personal, thanks...

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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). Formerly the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Stanford Law School and Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (2012–2013), she is the author of Imagining Justice...

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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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