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08 May Soft Power, Misinformation and the Role of the International Court of Justice
...of destruction within the relevant regions. While the exercise of hard power has taken the limelight, it is noteworthy that the ongoing conflicts are not bereft of the involvement and influence of soft power. The present discussion will delve into the significance of soft power and the correlation between such power and misinformation. Upon making several observations to that effect, the discussion will then progress to the role of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in light of soft power and misinformation. The Significance of Soft Power As defined by...
31 Jul Internships in International Criminal Justice Institutions
...to is the working conditions of interns in international criminal justice institutions, which generally allow them to work without payment. Indeed, paragraph 19 of the Interim Report states that the experts “wished to have a comprehensive understanding of the challenges facing the Court and the Rome Statute system from all levels: elected officials, management, and staff, including junior staff, from both the P-levels and G-levels; from headquarters and field offices.” Absent are interns and visiting professionals, as well as environmental support staff and the people who work, presumably on contract,...
23 May Environmental Justice at the JEP and Indigenous Worldviews: A Mismatch?
regions, home of the Nasa indigenous people. This marked the first time the JEP charged for environmental harms, expressly stating that “transitional justice is also environmental justice”. Right after the press conference, the two main Nasa indigenous organisations of the Cauca (ACIN, CRIC) convened an internal emergency meeting with Nasa indigenous authorities to discuss this decision. During the meeting, Nasa representatives heavily criticized the decision for having discarded their cosmovision and own laws (derecho proprio) and reduced Uma Kiwe, their Mother Earth, to natural resources. For the Nasa people, territory...
24 Jul Procedural Efficiency and Institutional Strain at the International Court of Justice: A Delicate Balance
[ Fabián Raimondo is an Associate Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University. He has been a member of the Bar of the City of La Plata (Argentina) since 1990 and on the List of Counsel of the International Criminal Court since 2005. He has acted as counsel and advocate for Sudan in three advisory proceedings before the International Court of Justice. Alexandre Skander Galand is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Maastricht University. He has participated in the International Court of Justice...12 Nov After Medellin: A Proposed ICJ Decisions Implementation Act
[ Steve Charnovitz is an associate professor of law at The George Washington University Law School. He blogs at the International Economic Law and Policy Blog .] On October 31, 2008, I made a presentation at the ASIL’s Tillar House of a proposal for an “International Court of Justice Decisions Implementation Act.” My proposal is an outgrowth of my essay in the Agora of the July 2008 issue of the American Journal of International Law. The Agora focuses on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in “Medellin v. Texas” and includes...05 Aug Saif Gaddafi’s Statement About the Possibility of Justice in Libya
In my post on the detention of Melinda Taylor and her team, I mentioned that the “guard” planted by the Libyan government to spy on the OPCD’s official meeting with Saif first intervened when Saif tried to sign a statement describing his attitude toward the Libyan criminal-justice system. I thought readers might be interested in the statement itself: Unsigned statement/sentiments from Mr, Saif Al Islam Gaddafi 7 June 2012, Zintan 1. I want to face justice. 2. I want to do so because I believe that Libya, the victims in...
17 Mar SCSL Symposium: The Sierra Leone Perspective – When the Story is as Important as the Storyteller
assistance to ensure accountability for the heinous crimes committed post the 1996 Abidjan Accord. In this period of seeming global retreat in international criminal justice in the continuum of “tribunal fatigue” in the UN system, it is useful to reflect on the remarkable desire of the Government of Sierra Leone for “credible justice” to punish adversaries, a framing which allowed the SCSL to move away from the hitherto victors’ justice archetype of ICL. The motivation for credible justice laid the foundation for the credible contributions of the SCSL to international...23 Nov Clarifying the Alternative: International Criminal Justice Options for African Union Member States
...on paper only in the form of the Protocol on the Statue of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights and the subsequent 2014 Draft Protocol on Amendments to the Protocol on the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights. Read through this second Draft Protocol and there emerges details of a mega-court that would subsume the current African Court on Human and Peoples’ Right which would then exist as a “Human and Peoples’ Rights Section”, alongside a “General Affairs” section and an “International Criminal Law”...
20 Feb Assessing Syria’s Progress Since Assad
...governed only Syria’s northwestern Idlib province and surrounding areas. It assumed control of a central government that had served mainly to uphold the Assad dictatorship and had no control over broad swathes of the country. The new authorities took significant stabilizing steps by establishing transitional constitutional frameworks, forming interim governing structures, and creating justice mechanisms, as well as securing the lifting of international sanctions and achieving positive diplomatic engagement. They also deserve credit for providing a higher level of security and allowing a greater margin of freedom than under Assad,...