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03 Aug Complementarity, Catalysts, Compliance Symposium: The Spectrum of Ideologies in International Criminal Justice–From Legalism to Policy
...justice scholarship already, including Sarah Nouwen’s book Complementary in the Line of Fire, Carsten Stahn and Mohamed El Zeidy’s edited volume The International Criminal Court and Complementarity, and articles by Kevin Jon Heller (see here and here) and William Schabas. De Vos’s book ultimately succeeds in this endeavour by grounding his engagement with the question of complementarity in a novel perspective, namely, by examining the multiple socially constructed meanings of complementarity and their respective implications for building domestic criminal justice systems. The goal of this brief contribution to the symposium...
11 Aug How to Rescue the Legitimacy of Ethiopia’s Transitional Justice Program
Transitional Justice in Ethiopia. After a series of consultations with diverse stakeholders, the working group released its 270-page report comprised of different policy recommendations. Following very limited and hurriedly conducted validation workshops, the MoJ tabled a draft TJ policy for the council of ministers to be adopted. In April 2024, the Ethiopian government adopted its long-awaited National Transitional Justice policy which marks a significant breakthrough in the country’s journey towards justice, healing and reconciliation. Following the adoption of the policy, the MoJ prepared an implementation roadmap to advance the process...
07 Apr What Happens When Transitional Justice Leaves Victims of Reproductive Violence Behind? A Look into the Inter-American Court’s Ramos Durand v Peru Historic Judgment
makes that clear. The Inter-American Court’s Contributions to Transitional Justice in Latin America Latin America has long been a laboratory for transitional justice, from early truth commissions in Argentina and Chile to expansive reparations programmes across the region. Alongside these processes, the Inter-American Court has been instrumental to the development of transitional justice, setting legal standards for how transitions should unfold, and indicating where states fall short. Famously, the Court has ruled on the incompatibility of amnesty laws with international human rights law; crystalised the scope of states’ obligations to...
17 Feb Symposium on Rewriting Histories of the Use of Force: A Rejoinder
[Agatha Verdebout is a Senior Researcher at Groupe de recherche et d’information sur la paix et la sécurité (GRIP).] I would like to start by thanking all the contributors for taking the time to read and review the book, as well as Alexandra Hofer and Opinio Juris for their interest in my work and the effort they have put into organising this written symposium. I am grateful for their comments, suggestions, questions and invitations to elaborate on some of the claims I make in Rewriting Histories. Reading the reviews confirmed...
16 Aug Symposium on Oumar Ba’s Book ‘States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court’–Introductory Post
...reason that we invited a few scholars and practitioners to reflect on the themes covered by the book. We also invited Oumar Ba to respond to the observations of the contributors. We are very grateful to the contributors and to Oumar Ba for participating in this symposium despite the very disruptive effect that the global COVID-19 pandemic has had on professional and personal lives. We are also grateful to OpinioJuris for hosting this symposium. We hope that this symposium will stimulate enriching reflections on the themes covered by the book....
30 Sep Symposium on Phil Clark’s ‘Distant Justice’
...dynamics, the Court has unwittingly become enmeshed in national and regional politics. Clark concludes that, although the ICC describes its work in terms of complementarity between international and national justice responses to atrocity crimes, the ICC’s fundamental distance from African societies has produced negative effects both for the Court and the countries where it intervenes. We have invited several scholars and practitioners to discuss Phil Clark’s arguments and conclusions. Their contributions will be followed by the author’s response. We are grateful to Opinio Juris for hosting this symposium. Phil Clark...
04 Oct Symposium on Gender Representation: The GQUAL Campaign – Witnessing Change on Gender Balance in International Bodies
To close the symposium, Diego García Sayán, Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, will reflect on the importance of having women in the judiciary, while Viviana Krsticevic, member of GQUAL, will note how the current moment represents an opportunity to achieve gender parity in international justice. Conclusion When GQUAL was launched, we did not envision that its objectives could not be met in an initial period of five years. Yet, women are still not participating in the decision-making processes of international justice on equal terms. We still...
03 Jun Symposium on Reproductive Violence in International Law: Protections for Reproductive Violence in the ICC – Continuing the Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice’s Legacy
[ Alix Vuillemin is the Executive Director of Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice. Rosemary Grey is a Senior Lecturer at Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney.] This post forms part of the Opinio Juris Symposium on Reproductive Violence in International Law, in which diverse authors reflect on how the International Criminal Court and other jurisdictions have responded to violations of reproductive health and reproductive autonomy. The symposium complements a one-day conference to be held on 11 June 2024, in which legal practitioners, scholars, activists, and survivors will meet in The...
20 May Punishing Atrocities Symposium: Thoughts on the Arc of the Universe and International Justice
cohabitants. This much is clear from Nuremberg, and even more so, the contemporaneous Far East tribunals, the combination of which are the template for today’s institutions of international justice. These tribunals are rightly celebrated for their revolutionary role in bringing the purveyors of mass atrocity to justice, and rightly criticized as victor’s justice, ex post facto justice, and racist (especially the Far East cases). Nuremberg’s primary lesson and legacy is of accountability. But its flaws also constituted a teaching moment in the drive toward fairness. Established a half century later,...
31 Mar Justice in Extreme Cases Symposium: When the Pendulum Swings the Wrong Way–A Coherentist Approach to Preventing Miscarriages of Justice
...to a miscarriage of justice for the victims of these “phantom” crimes. The decision of the Appeals Chamber has been commented upon and dissected on various themes including that its arguably gendered assessment of questions of liability increases “the risk of impunity for SGBV crimes.” It is in Darryl Robinson’s book, Justice in Extreme Cases, that we get a glimpse of a different basis of analysis – that of the encounter between criminal law theory and international criminal law. Specifically, Robinson explores the deontic constraints of a system of justice...