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16 Mar Symposium: Wrestling with the Long Shadow of European Transplants of International Courts in the Third World
264) Yet, they do not overstate this point. After all, the Andean Tribunal of Justice has been effective in only one issue area, intellectual property rights. Unlike the bold, purposive and consequential decisions of the European Court of Justice, the decisions of the Andean Tribunal of Justice on intellectual property rights are more restrained, predicated on formalist reasoning and “highly repetitive, even formulaic.” (page 276) In so doing, the Andean Tribunal has avoided direct confrontation between the Tribunal and Andean governments whose political leaders have the last word on Andean...
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...25 Jun International Securities Fraud Makes Supreme Court Debut
[Margaret V. Sachs is the Robert Cotten Alston Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law and an expert on securities law] The Supreme Court yesterday issued its decision in Morrison v. National Australia Bank, its first ever on the international reach of Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5. Justice Scalia wrote for the Court, with additional opinions by Justice Breyer (concurring in part and concurring in the judgment) and Justice Stevens, joined by Justice Ginsberg (concurring in the judgment). Justice Sotomayor did not participate. The federal securities...03 Oct Now on Video: “Two Justices, Two Lords and a Lady”
Foscote should respond. The low point was Dean Kagan’s self-congratulatory introduction of the panelists (2nd minute, Real Player) in which she noted that with the appointment of Chief Justice Roberts a majority of the justices are now Harvard Law School alums, so Harvard can “win every case.” Oh please. I suppose she inadvertently failed to mention that by her count white male Republicans win every case too. There were numerous highlights. The first was Justices Scalia’s and Breyer’s discussion of the judicial role. Scalia suggested (25th minute) that Chief Justice...21 Jan Events and Announcements: 21 January 2024
To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Calls for Papers Nottingham International Criminal Justice Conference : The University of Nottingham School of Law, in partnership with the International Criminal Justice Unit of the University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre, is organising a conference on 8–9 July 2024 that will bring together people working across the diverse field of international criminal justice. At this interdisciplinary conference, we are aiming to foster connections between academics, practitioners and...
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...
07 Aug Fifteen Years After Sri Lanka’s Civil War Ended, a Different Approach to Transitional Justice is Needed
with.] This year marks 15 years since Sri Lanka’s brutal decades-long civil war ended. There are credible allegations all sides to the conflict committed serious human rights and international humanitarian law (IHL) violations, including incidents of sexual violence, torture, extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances. The victims/survivors of these violations still await justice. Sri Lanka attempted to grapple with the past through transitional justice (TJ) processes, but these have largely failed. In the absence of meaningful accountability efforts in Sri Lanka, the international community has stepped in to a limited extent...08 Dec Transitional Justice and Judicial Activism Symposium: Comments by Dinah PoKempner
[Dinah PoKempner is General Counsel of Human Rights Watch. She is writing in her personal capacity. Views expressed in this essay are not necessarily those of HRW.] Increasing judicial recognition of a duty to investigate and even to prosecute serious violations of international law is unlikely to narrow the ambit of transitional justice; to the contrary, it adds pressure for more thorough transitional measures by upping the reputational cost of impunity. Not even two decades have passed since agreement of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, arguably a...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...
17 Jun Unraveling Universal Civil Jurisdiction: A Novel Ground for Global Justice?
recourse for victims of heinous crimes committed overseas, offering them a path to justice that may otherwise be inaccessible. In the wake of the current global atrocities, the TVPA exemplifies how domestic laws can effectively embody international legal standards, serving as a vital link between disparate legal systems. The TVPA’s integration into international law discourse is far from theoretical; it represents a tangible effort to ensure that survivors of international offenses are empowered with a voice and a means to seek justice. As such, the TVPA could serve as an...