Search: Affective Justice: Book Symposium: A Response
29 Mar UKSC Judgment in Okpabi & ORS VS Royal Dutch Shell & ANOR, and Colonial Vestiges
rights violations, the judgment is a positive outcome especially in the light of global access to justice statistics indicating that at least 5.1 billion people- 2/3 of the world’s population lack meaningful access to justice. Access to justice is a major challenge for oil communities in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region including the claimants in the Okpabi case, in view of the long years of un-remediated environmental and human rights abuses. Instructively, nine (9) years after the 2011 United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) report which catalogued devastating oil spillages in Ogoni...03 Oct Into the Deference Weeds in Kiobel
...they are persuasive, Your Honor. JUSTICE SCALIA: Oh, okay. [Laughter in the court] CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Your successors may adopt a different view. And I think — I don’t want to put words in his mouth, but Justice Scalia’s point means whatever deference you are entitled to is compromised by the fact that your predecessors took a different position. Verrilli didn’t respond to that notion directly, and discussion soon went on to a different topic. But I’m left wondering about the import of this line of questioning. One, not especially...
01 May Focusing International Justice on Children: The Time is Now
[Alison Smith is the International Justice Director for No Peace Without Justice. She has worked and published on the rights of the child in accountability processes for twenty years, and participated in the consultations leading to the adoption of the OTP Children’s Policy.] It has been 20 years since the launch of “International Criminal Justice and Children” by UNICEF’s Innocenti Research Centre and No Peace Without Justice. At the time, it was the only book dealing explicitly and exclusively with children and the myriad of ways in which they could...
25 Sep From Immunities to the Afghanistan Decision – Talking International Criminal Justice with Stephen Rapp
I sat down with Stephen Rapp , (formerly Chief of Prosecutions at the ICTR, Prosecutor at the SCSL, and US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice; now a Fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Prevention of Genocide and Oxford University’s Blavatnik School) to talk about some of the burning issues in international criminal justice today. There are very clear challenges at the ICC as far the investigation and prosecution of international crimes leading us all to wonder–is the future of international criminal justice domestic? I think it is...
17 Apr Symposium on Confronting Colonial Objects: Returning Colonial Objects – The Role of Transitional Justice and Alternative Dispute Resolution
...mechanisms associated with a society’s attempt to come to terms with a legacy of protracted and large-scale violence, serious human rights abuses and mass atrocities in order to ensure accountability, serve justice and achieve reconciliation. In particular, transitional justice seeks to provide justice, truth, reparation and reconciliation in societies in transition.Such processes and mechanisms require the full and effective participation of victims, from discussions about the design of each of them to the supervision of the implementation of decisions. Although transitional justice is traditionally resorted to in societies marred by...29 Jan The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice
International Criminal Justice in Historical Perspective: The Tension Between States’ Interests and the Pursuit of International Justice, M. Cherif Bassiouni The ICC as a Turning Point in the History of International Criminal Justice, C. Kress The ICC and Third States, Jia Bing Bing Politics and Justice: The Role of the Security Council, D. Shraga Problematic Features of International Criminal Procedure, M.R. Damaska Cooperation of States with International Criminal Tribunals, G. Sluiter Means of Gathering Evidence and Arresting Suspects in Situations of States’ Failure to Cooperate, R. Cryer International v. National...08 Mar Call for Papers: Affective States of International Criminal Justice
On behalf of the organizers and the APCML, of which I am a part, I want to call readers’ attention to the following conference: AFFECTIVE STATES OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE 20 ‐ 22 July 2011 Melbourne Law School Presented by Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law (APCML) and Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) Supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant Convenors: Peter Rush (IILAH) and Gerry Simpson (APCML) CALL FOR PAPERS International criminal justice is repeatedly called upon to respond to events which overwhelm our...
30 Nov UNSC Veto Power Symposium: Are there Jus Cogens Limits to UN Security Council Vetoes in Atrocity Crime Contexts?
[Charles C. Jalloh is a Professor of Law at Florida International University and Founding Editor, African Journal of Legal Studies and African Journal of International Criminal Justice. He is a member of the International Law Commission. His latest book is The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Cambridge, 2020).] It was a pleasure to have been invited to this symposium on Professor Jennifer Trahan’s thoughtful new book, Existing Legal Limits to Security Council Veto Power in the Face of Atrocity Crimes. The book is a welcome addition...16 Mar Cheng Book Roundtable: The Importance of Perspective – Reflections on Additional Frontiers
external perspective, as well as the interactions between New Haven School and TWAIL scholars, might provide fertile ground for this book’s approach to be applied in additional ways. Before considering such new frontiers, however, I want to acknowledge what this book achieves. First, at a conceptual level, it engages a staggering array of international legal theory and some of the most polarized debates within that to make a constructive contribution to a deeply fraught dialogue. Whether or not one agrees with all of the book’s precepts—as this interchange already represents,...06 Dec How to Write a Book in 647 Steps (Part Three)
According to Oxford University Press, my book checks in at a healthy 452 pages. I still can’t quite believe that I wrote something so long — approximately 165,000 words, 130,000 more than anything else I’ve ever written. Writing the book was extremely fun, but the hard work before the writing, the researching and the outlining, was often anything but. It’s that process that I want to describe in this post, which tries to answer a simple question: what do you do once you’ve obtained a contract to write a book?...