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11 Feb The Prospects of Prosecuting Rohingya Deportation before the International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh (ICT-BD)
...accomplishment of such trials. Accordingly, the GoB established two Tribunals namely the ICT-BD on 25 March 2010 and 22 March 2012, respectively. Subsequently, the GoB promulgated the International Crimes Tribunal Rules of Procedure 2010 (ICT RoP) to provide the procedural frameworks of ICT-BD. The ICT-BD handed forty-one judgments to date (thirty by ICT-BD1 and eleven by ICT-BD2). The ICT-BD is still conducting its investigation and prosecution. Section 3 of the ICT Act provides the jurisdictional basis of the ICT-BD. As regards personal jurisdiction, the ICT-BD can prosecute any individual or...11 Jan Domestic Courts and the European Court of Human Rights: Towards Developing Standards of Weak International Judicial Review?
...the Von Hannover case of 2012. In this case the Strasbourg Court is embracing this careful approach to its relationship with Constitutional and Supreme Courts, and going through special pains to signal that it wants to work with strong Supreme Courts rather than compete with them. Admittedly, for weak international judicial review to be in place the domestic court 1) has to be a strong rule of law court, and 2) must take international human rights protections seriously. The development of the standard of weak international judicial review in the...
26 May Symposium on Advancing Effective and Comprehensive Reparation for Victims of the War in Ukraine: Towards a Holistic Care Model – Lessons from the DRC Experience for the Ukrainian Context
...of child soldiers, and the realities observed in Bunia offer major lessons for the Register of Damages in Ukraine. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo was former President of the Union des Patriotes Congolais/Forces Patriotiques pour la Libération du Congo. On 14 March 2012, he was found guilty of the war crime of enlisting and conscripting children under the age of 15, and using them to participate actively in hostilities. The same year, he was sentenced to serve 14 years of imprisonment. The reparations phase started on 7 August 2012. The programme is...15 Jan What Are International Law’s “Must Reads” from the Past Decade?
...built on the assumption that international law is expanding, becoming more institutionally complex, and deepening. But is the proliferation of law and institutions also leading to legal fragmentation? This has been a much-debated topic since at least the 1990’s. The ILC’s report, finalized by Martti Koskenniemi and the related study, have been much-debated and remain key resources in thinking-through this important topic. The Oxford Guide to Treaties (Duncan Hollis, ed.) (Oxford 2012) At the risk of being accused of cheering for the home team, I want to note this volume...
24 Mar Symposium on Early Career International Law Academia: Neither on the Outside, Nor Fully in? Working Within Perceived Dichotomies of Academia and Practice in International Criminal Law as a Young Scholar
[Gabriele Chlevickaite is Assistant Professor at VU Amsterdam, a Board Member at the Center for International Criminal Justice and a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR).] Tensions between academic independence and practical relevance are long-standing, and increasingly subject to debate, with little guidance to those on either side of the equation. However, the academia-practitioner relationship is no simple matter, especially for freshly-baked academics transitioning from practice. What is the ‘right’ distance from former employers and colleagues? To what extent...
03 Oct The ICC State Parties’ Presidency of the UN Security Council: A Momentous Opportunity to Provide the Limbless Giant with Limbs to Walk and Work
...the UNSC. At other times, where the ICC States parties are in the minority at the UNSC, a more passive attitude towards the ICC and international accountability has prevailed. Moreover, it is important for States parties within the UNSC to enhance and maximize their presence at the Presidency of the Council. Such a position bestows a great opportunity to promote and advance international justice and accountability on the UNSC agenda. For example, in January 2012, it was under the South African presidency, that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,...21 Jan My Glenn Greenwald Story
...elsewhere — which has been wonderful for expanding my readership. I owe him a great deal professionally. That debt, however, pales in comparison to what I owe him for helping me while I was at the University of Auckland. As I recounted in this 2012 post, I returned home to find that Chevron had subpoenaed my Gmail account information — a heavy-handed response to my very critical blogging about the Chevron’s destruction of the Ecuadorian rainforest and subsequent dirty tricks to avoid having to pay damages for that destruction. I...