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08 Oct Symposium on Gender Representation: Time to Double our Efforts – New Report Creates an Exceptional Opportunity to Break the Glass Ceiling for Women in International Justice
and backed by many experts, institutions, and governments, and supported by a wide range of domestic and international actors, can create the necessary impetus and synergies to ensure a more representative international justice system. The excellent contributions made during this symposium highlight five areas where the AC Report can help catalyze change in the gender composition of international justice: information, networks, pledges, legal standards, and institutional changes. Information, knowledge, and debate Shattering the glass ceiling requires more timely information, analysis, and targeted discussions around gender representation in international bodies, both...
02 May Symposium in Pursuit of Intersectional Justice at the International Criminal Court: Ongwen amici curiae Submissions from a Feminist Collective of Lawyers and Scholars
[ Alexandra Lily Kather (she/they) is a lawyer, international justice practitioner & co-founder of the Emergent Justice Collective (EJC). Their work focuses, inter alia, on strategically addressing the intersectional dimensions of core international crimes. Angela Mudukuti is a member of Opinio Juris and a human rights lawyer specialised in international criminal law. She has worked with a variety of international organsisations including the International Criminal Court and Human Rights Watch.] On 4 February 2021, the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s Trial Chamber IX found Dominic Ongwen, a former commander in the Lord Resistance...
08 Apr Symposium on Dominic Ongwen Case: Perspectives from Ugandan Survivors and Activists on Reparations in the Dominic Ongwen Case
trauma from their experiences. The Ongwen decision and the efforts at justice and reparations for those most affected is deeply intricate and complex, largely due to the widespread and severe nature of the atrocities, the diverse needs of survivors, the interaction between national and international accountability processes, and the sluggish advancement in translating transitional justice policy objectives into concrete legislation. The reparations decision and ongoing debates on advancing the transitional justice process in Uganda have brought interesting yet complex issues to the fore, not all of which can be resolved...
17 Apr Symposium on Confronting Colonial Objects: Beyond Return, Towards Repair – Litigating Restitution of Entangled Objects along the Spectrum of Legalities and (Post)colonial Justice
institutions rather than systemic change in the institutional set up and mindset, especially in leadership. Suggesting these same museums as spaces of transitional justice therefore holds the danger to perpetuate that situation and obscure pervading asymmetric relationships stemming from the colonial encounter and structures of coloniality. Moreover, it unfairly adds to these institutions the label of justice and legitimacy that comes with acting as a transitional justice mechanism. Reading this book offered a range of impressions: from confirming some intuitions based on one’s own practical work on legal grounds for...
18 Aug States of Justice Symposium: Another Reason Why Regionalism Matters in International Criminal Justice
to the author: states (mostly African states) that have so far engaged with the ICC did so not for the purpose of promoting justice for crimes under the court’s jurisdiction, but to advance their political and security interests. Interestingly, Oumar Bâ claims that the book’s findings and conclusions are ‘generalizable and useful to examine the behavior of other states in and outside of the African continent’ (p.39), which raises the following question: what does ‘States of justice’ tell us about future interactions with the proposed African Court of Justice and...07 May Why Justice Scalia Ought to Like the European Court of Human Rights, or at Least Not Detest It So Much
case, the European Court has consistently held that the European Convention is a living instrument which must be interpreted in the light of present day conditions (the same approach that Justice Scalia sincerely wished would die in the US context). Finally, the European Court’s use of contextual balancing and proportionality tests in almost every situation is also contrary to Justice Scalia’s rather more categorical jurisprudence. These fundamental methodological differences aside, however, Justice Scalia would probably be surprised that the substantive results that he prefers in the US context are those...24 Mar Why I Went With Hoover Institution Press to Publish ‘Living With the UN’
his and John Yoo’s provocative new book, Taming Globalization, so expect to hear a lot at OJ about themes in our books (we have, btw, covertly set up an algorithm in which the more OJ readers buy our books, the less we will talk about them!). To start with, however, I wanted to go to a very different topic – this one about publishing, choosing a publisher, and why I chose the Hoover Institution Press. This follows on some excellent guest posts by senior academic press editors in the past...
25 May Symposium on Kamari Clarke’s Affective Justice
Clarke formulates the concept of affective justice—an emotional response to competing interpretations of justice—to trace how affect becomes manifest in judicial practices. By detailing the effects of the ICC’s all-African indictments, she outlines how affective responses to these call into question the “objectivity” of the ICC’s mission to protect those victimized by violence and prosecute perpetrators of those crimes. In analyzing the effects of such cases, Clarke provides a fuller theorization of how people articulate what justice is and the mechanisms through which they do so. We look forward to...
16 Apr Symposium on Confronting Colonial Objects: Introducing Debates
In the book, I argue that it would be valuable to develop a set of principles of cultural relational justice. I have grouped them under four overarching themes: Access to history and culture (Principle 1: Transparency of collections and object histories, Principle 2: Object accessibility), Accountability (Principle 3: Seeking new forms of consent, Principle 4: Pluralistic access to justice, Principle 5: Recognition of injustice, Principle 6: Social repair, Principle 7: Plurality of pathways to achieve just and fair solutions, Principle 8: Collaboration, Principle 9: Meaningful redress for wrongful action), Memorialization...12 Nov NYU JILP Symposium: Lopez’ Responses to Comments
proceedings due to the “justice delay” after mass atrocity. Judicial proceedings, either locally or globally, often take place decades after the events themselves. In their absence, victim groups may gather together to share and interpret events that are common to the group, thereby forming collective memory. As I highlighted in my response to Professor Roht-Arriaza, this justice lag creates unique challenges when justice and collective eventually collide. Response to Johan van der Vyver Professor van der Vyver raises a question that I have yet to fully resolve and hope to...