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International Criminal Law

07 Aug

[Nandor Knust is an associate professor of law at the Arctic University of Norway (UiT)] Gaiane Nuridzhanian’s The Principle of Ne Bis in Idem in International Criminal Law offers a comprehensive examination of the ne bis in idem principle in the realm of international criminal law. Drawing from her extensive academic and professional background, Nuridzhanian provides an in-depth analysis of how this...

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06 Aug

[Dr Daniel R. Ruhweza is a senior lecturer and head of the Department of Law and Jurisprudence at the Makerere University School of Law] Gaiane Nuridzhanian’s The Principle of ne bis in idem in International Criminal Law examines the common law principle of double jeopardy as established in the Rome statute under Article 20 as a legal principle. This Statute establishes...

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06 Aug

[Dr Iryna Marchuk is an associate professor at the Centre for European, Comparative, and Constitutional Legal Studies (CECS), University of Copenhagen. Dr Aloka Wanigasuriya is an associate professor at the Department of Law, University of Southern Denmark.] Introduction The principle of ne bis in idem holds sacred value in criminal law, as it aims to safeguard the integrity of criminal process by...

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05 Aug

[Megumi Ochi is associate professor at the Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. The Premises of International Criminal Procedure: Identifying the Principles in International Collaboration (Springer, 2024) is the English translation of her second monograph.] I am honoured to be invited to this book symposium on this outstanding monograph written by my friend, Gaiane, on a topic that has...

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05 Aug

[Gaiane Nuridzhanian is an associate professor at The Arctic University of Norway (UiT)] The legal principle of ne bis in idem, also known as double jeopardy, proclaims that no person shall be tried twice for the same matter. This principle exists in most of the domestic legal systems and is a fundamental human right. While the importance of this principle is...

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04 Aug

[Melanie O’Brien is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Western Australia, President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and Visiting Scholar with the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota Law School.] Many people are asking the question, ‘is genocide happening in Gaza?’. The question was explored in the media in the early days after 7 October 2023...

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01 Aug

[Vikrant Sharma works with the defence team of Mr. Kadri Veseli at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague. He graduated cum laude from the advanced LL.M. in public international law, specialising in international criminal law, from Leiden University.] The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (‘the Court’ or ‘ICC’), Karim Khan, confirmed on 30 September 2024 that Lithuania had referred to...

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01 Aug

[Greta Ramelli is an international law jurist specializing in international criminal law, and has worked across governmental and non-governmental sectors] The first World Congress on Enforced Disappearances (WCED) was held in Geneva on January 15-16. This historic event brought together state representatives, victims, civil society organizations, international bodies, and experts to foster dialogue and strengthen the fight against enforced disappearances. I participated...

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31 Jul

[Savalan Mohammadzadeh is a PhD candidate in public international law at Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran and secretary of the Youth Committee of the Iranian Association for United Nations Studies (holding special consultative status with the ECOSOC). Mohammad Mehdi Seyed Nasseri is a researcher at the Center for Ethics and Law Studies, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran and lecturer in international...

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29 Jul

[Aakash Chandran (X: @ChandranAakash is the Legal Advocacy and Communications Manager at Asia Justice Coalition.] The international community is currently navigating a turbulent phase marked by armed conflicts, aggression, and manifest violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law. The situation in South, Southeast, and East Asia also continues to present alarming developments, including the escalating situation in Myanmar, exacerbated...

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29 Jul

Peru's Justice and Human Rights Commission of the Congress has just published a unified bill that would add the crime of ecocide to the Peruvian penal code. The next step is for Congress to approve the bill and the President to promulgate it. Here is Art. 1 of the unified bill, as translated by ClaudeAI: Article 305-A. Ecocide 305-A.1. Anyone who, knowingly, provokes,...

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28 Jul

This post is a continuation of What Will Gaza Become After Genocide? Using the Counterfactual Method to Evaluate Three Post-Genocidal Futures (24 July 2025). You may access Part 1 here, where I argued that the genocide Israel is perpetrating against the Palestinians is central to the zionist ethos which, like other settler-colonial movements, seeks to remove the native from coveted...

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