Search: Affective Justice: Book Symposium: A Response
17 Jul State Responsibility for Acts of Torture: Netherlands/Canada v Syria at the International Court of Justice
Weapons (CW) as form of torture, by addressing suffocation caused by this kind of weapons as severe pain and suffering (para.2). While it is not further clarified in the Application, the reference to CW as torture and, subsequently, the fact that the Court will address the CW is significant given the extensive use of this type of prohibited weapons by the Syrian regime and the lack of justice responses to address this crime. The applicants requested the court to declare Syria’s violations of the CAT and that Syria must cease...
20 Jul A Special Issue in the Journal of International Criminal Justice on Sexual Violence in Conflict and Domestic Accountability: Why Now and Why You (and Governments) Should Read It
stressed the importance of ending impunity “as part of a comprehensive approach to seeking sustainable peace, justice, truth and national reconciliation.” This resolution affirmed the primary responsibility of States to investigate and prosecute crimes occurred in their jurisdictions, reflecting the recently adopted principle of complementarity, underlying the ICC regime. Indeed, this approach represented a shift in expectations: from a period where the implementation of international humanitarian, criminal and human rights law was led by international institutions to a time where national systems of justice are increasingly expected to provide more...
11 Sep Contemporary International Criminal Law After Critique Symposium: Transformative Justice – Abolition and International Criminal Law
...made us consider abolition and carceralism in news ways. It made obvious the expansive networks of global carceralism, and therefore the need for global carceral abolitionism. During this time, I was finalising my manuscript for a book which considers the rights of the accused in international criminal law and procedure. In this book, I am explicit about a desire to strengthen international criminal law (ICL) through critically questioning but ultimately improving its processes. This was a view I had held since my practice as a defence lawyer at the International...06 Apr Events and Announcements: 6 April 2022
...at the conference, for publication at the end of 2023 or beginning of 2024. Please direct any and all correspondence, questions, and expressions of interest to the co-editors at drumblm@wlu.edu and c[dot]i[dot]fournet2[at]exeter[dot]ac[dot]uk. Mark Drumbl and Caroline Fournet Events The European Society of International Law Interest Group on International Criminal Justice, Interdisciplinarity & International Criminal Justice: The ESIL Interest Group on International Criminal Justice is pleased to announce on Online Roundtable on “Interdisciplinarity & International Criminal Justice” on Wednesday, 13 April 2022 from 3.30-5.30pm CEST via Zoom. The field of international...
25 Aug Symposium on Myanmar and International Indifference: Rethinking Accountability – Champions of Justice: Rohingya Women are Leading the Fight for Accountability for International Crimes
[Antonia Mulvey is the Executive Director of Legal Action Worldwide (LAW).] As the world marks the 5th Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day on the 25th of August, it is Rohingya women who are playing a leading role in the fight for international justice. They are ‘Champions of Justice’ – a remarkable group of women who are tearing up the gender norms of Rohingya patriarchal society. Most of them are survivors of brutal violence perpetrated during the 2016 and 2017 “clearance operations”. They are joined by a growing list of countries voicing...16 Jun The Al-Senussi Defence’s Unfortunate Adoption of the Due Process Thesis
for and the enforcement of international justice”. The term “international justice” surely cannot mean justice only where the accused is shielded from guilt. Unfortunately, it means precisely that — as I show in my article criticizing the DPT. In fact, “bring the person to justice” does not “echo” the reference to “international justice” at all — save for the fact that the word “justice” is in both expressions. “Bring to justice” actually has a very specific meaning in the context of Art. 17(2)(c): namely, to convict. I don’t blame Al-Senussi’s...19 Jun Judicial Review and Administrative Detention
Prize Cases and Presidential Order establishing the Military Commissions are similar examples. What is disheartening in all four is that while the executive engaged in excess neither the Congress nor Supreme Court engaged or challenged the President. Checks and balances fell by the wayside; Justice Jackson’s famous warning of an ‘unfettered executive’ went unheeded. As the three branches of government move into the post Bush era they would do well to recall not only Justice Jackson’s words but also those of the former President (Chief Justice) of the Israeli Supreme...
22 Dec As Violence in Nigeria’s Middle Belt Region Continues, Justice is Urgently Needed
action in Nigeria to achieve justice for the affected communities and address the complex root causes of violence Although violence in the Middle Belt region usually garners little attention internationally, there have been some recent developments on this issue. Just last month the President of the United States, Donald Trump, threatened to intervene in Nigeria militarily if the Nigerian government fails to prevent the killing of Christians. Moreover, the United States has designated Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern for its alleged violations of religious freedom. In response, Nigerian...04 Apr Have You Worked in a Post-Conflict Justice Setting?
Have you worked on post-conflict justice issues? Have you been part of a rule of law project in a conflict zone? If so, you may be of help to our colleague Professor Elena Baylis (Univ. of Pittsburgh), who is working on a really terrific empirical project on post-conflict justice. Here is the information from Elena which includes eligibility to win a $100 to spend at Amazon.com: If you have ever worked in the field of post-conflict justice, including work on post-conflict rule of law and/or work on post-conflict accountability for...
09 May A Special Justice Mechanism for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine – For Who, By Who, Against Who?
[Alexandre Skander Galand is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School, Berlin.] On 3 April 2022, President Zelenski announced that he ‘approved a decision to create a special justice mechanism in Ukraine for the investigation and judicial examination of every crime of the occupiers. The essence of it is the joint work of national and international experts: investigators, prosecutors and judges.’ It is still unclear whether this ‘special justice mechanism’ will be in the form of, as proposed by Heller and Owiso, a hybrid...