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01 Dec UNSC Veto Power Symposium: Doing Away with the Veto for Atrocity Crimes? Trimming the Edges of an Illegitimate Institution in Order to Legitimise It
[Dire Tladi is a Professor of International Law, at the University of Pretoria, a member of UN International Law Commission and its Special Rapporteur on Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens).] I am grateful to Jennifer for inviting me to contribute to this symposium on her book Existing Limits to Security Council Veto Power in the Face of Atrocity Crimes. When she first asked me to participate in the symposium in August of this year, my response to her was: “I took a while to respond because I...
18 Aug States of Justice Symposium: The Hazy Future of International Criminal Justice in Light of Africa’s Interaction with the ICC
...therefore not fail to be of benefit to scholars of international law generally, international criminal law and African studies. The monograph is arranged in a unique manner. From a section on Regimes of International Criminal Justice; States of Justice; Outsourcing Justice; the International Politics of Justice; The Limits of State Cooperation; The Court Is the Political Arena; to International Justice in a World of States, the author does an excellent job on flow and chronology. Each of these chapters engages with the scholarly literature and debates on the four themes...
25 May Affective Justice Symposium: Affective Justice Under Scrutiny–Introduction to the Forum
the power of its authority in the cooperation of state parties. Yet, empirical scrutiny reveals an absence of traditional mechanisms of force and sovereign power, which renders the study of the ICC’s force so fascinating. It is also this absence in African circuits that makes various Pan-Africanist responses critical to understand. In weighing various Pan-Africanist responses, we sense there is something else at play that Affective Justice seeks to uncover and illuminate. When I began fieldwork for Affective Justice in 2012, I was building on more than a decade of...
16 Sep Transitional Justice Symposium: On Transitional Justice
limits of what is possible continue to vex us all, captured in the janus faced image of justice that so distinctly pervades Ruti’s book. Transitional justice (book and idea) will be with us for a long time because both are needed to marshal the deep-seated need for acknowledgment, settlement, remedy and resolution in violent and repressive societies. Transitional Justice deserved all the recognition it gets at its twentieth anniversary and some of us are very glad to have had this book with us on our own transitional and justice journeys....
09 Aug Setting the Right Precedent: Victim-Centred Justice in Afghanistan
...bottom-up approaches to address victims’ grievances. In the past few years, the Afghan civil society has adopted the language of “victim-centred justice” to avoid the negative connotations associated with the term “transitional justice” and move beyond the “peace v justice” narrative. The terms “victim-centred justice” allow for a broader interpretation of “justice” to include criminal justice and other mechanisms. Giving justice a broad definition is particularly important in a context such as Afghanistan where victimhood is highly complex. Afghans have been victimised under different regimes and suffered from a wide...
17 Sep Transitional Justice Symposium: Transitional Justice 2.0–Rebooting Justice in the 21st Century
[Arnaud Kurze is an Associate Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University.] Introduction “It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have,” James Baldwin wrote in No Name in the Street over half a century ago, describing his childhood memories in Harlem and events that painstakingly scarred his memory, including Martin Luther King and Malcolm X’s deaths (Baldwin 1972, 149). The question of delivering justice is still at the heart of contemporary social unrest not only in the United...
01 Oct Distant Justice Symposium: Phil Clark’s ‘Distant Justice’–A Wake-Up Call for the International Criminal Court or a Case for Managing Expectations?
[Owiso Owiso is a Doctoral Researcher in Public International Law at the University of Luxembourg. This is the latest post in our symposium on Phil Clark’s book, Distant Justice: The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics .] A distant ICC ‘orbiting in space’ as rogue regimes make merry This post makes a few observations on Phil Clark’s book Distant justice: The impact of the International Criminal Court on African politics. Clark provides compelling insight into the political intrigues of the so-called ‘self-referrals’ by the Democratic Republic of...
08 Jul Symposium on Art, Aesthetics and International Justice: Primed for Unity and Complexity – International Justice Through Aesthetic Lens
[SONG Tianying is a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law Research and Policy] Confucius said: “One establishes oneself through rites and perfects oneself through music.” (The Analects · Book VIII: Tai Bo) International justice is established in terms of rites; Marina Aksenova’s Art, Aesthetics and International Justice seeks to improve it with aesthetic insights. It is a highly innovative approach which coincides with ancient Chinese wisdom. While the book discusses a wide range of international justice issues, this post focuses on its premium example: international criminal justice. I...
27 Jan The Long – Yet Still Uneven – Arc of International Justice
violence has been fueled at least in part by the persistent impunity gap, with recent atrocities allegedly committed by many of the same actors implicated in past abuses. To be sure, victims’ access to justice also depends on capacity within the international justice system. There are more grave crimes than the system can address. But the mobilization around Ukraine demonstrates that where there is a will, there is a way. The absence of similar responses to other situations not only deprives victims of access to justice, but also threatens its...
08 May Symposium on ‘Marketing Global Justice’ – Monopoly Capitalism, Kitsch, and Accountable Accountability
[Mark A. Drumbl is Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University.] Dear Christine, I really liked engaging with your fabulous book, Marketing Global Justice. It’s cleverly edgy and full of insights. You unwind international criminal justice as a transnational business venture. As with all commodity trading and product hawking, well, advertising is indeed key. I was reading your book at the same time as The Tender Barbarian, Bohumil Hrabal’s eulogy to his friend Vladimír. Those guys spent a lot of time...