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International Criminal Law Tag

23 Apr

[Chuka Arinze-Onyia is a doctoral student researching universal jurisdiction at Griffith University Law School] Only weeks after the Nigerian government entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the ICC to prosecute crimes committed by Boko Haram and the Nigerian military, the Nigerian Airforce on 11 April 2026, launched airstrikes that killed over 100 people and injured several others. There will be...

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22 Apr

[Girmay Tesfakiros Meressa holds an LL.M. in International Operational Law and is a legal practitioner. His research interests include the law on the use of force, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law, with a particular interest in the legal regulation of contemporary armed conflicts] Introduction A recent investigation by Reuters alleges that Ethiopia constructed a secret facility used to train fighters...

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22 Apr

[Rafael Braga da Silva is a Brazilian-Portuguese criminal and human rights lawyer with over 10 years of experience, specializing in international human rights and criminal law before tribunals including the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor's Office and the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals] Introduction Twenty-five years ago, the Portuguese-speaking world was present at the founding of the modern international criminal justice system. Lusophone states...

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06 Apr

[Paola Gaeta is a Professor of International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute] For many years, I have worked on international criminal law, but I have only touched upon the interaction between arrest warrants and peace processes in earlier work. I also recall the debates following the arrest warrant against President Al Bashir and the African Union’s requests for a deferral...

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27 Mar

[Natasa Mavronicola is a Professor of Human Rights Law at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham; co-editor of Coercive Human Rights: Positive Duties to Mobilise the Criminal Law under the ECHR (Hart 2020); author of Torture, Inhumanity and Degradation under Article 3 of the ECHR: Absolute Rights and Absolute Wrongs (Hart 2021). Mattia Pinto is a lecturer at York Law...

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26 Mar

[Andreina Nicoletti is a PhD candidate at the Centre d’études internationales et européennes (CEIE), at the University of Strasbourg. Her research focuses on the institution, the use and the effects of the veto power by the permanent members (P5) of the United Nations Security Council] On the early morning of January 3, 2026, Nicolás Maduro Moros and his wife Cilia Flores...

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26 Mar

[Quazi Omar Foysal is a Bangladeshi-qualified international lawyer, currently pursuing PhD at La Trobe University, Australia] Following the fall of the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina on 5 August 2024, the interim government had three options to pursue accountability for the atrocious crimes that preceded that development. These included referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC), the establishment of an ad...

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25 Mar

[Muhammad Tanvir Hashem Munim is a Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn, a Counsel of the International Criminal Court, an Advocate of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and a defence counsel at the International Crimes Tribunal – Bangladesh (ICT-BD). He is a Lecturer on the Bar Training Course at the University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol] Introduction It’s...

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25 Mar

[Victor Kattan is an Assistant Professor in Public International Law at the University of Nottingham School of Law] Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the State of Israel, is the first Western leader to have an international arrest warrant issued against him from the International Criminal Court (ICC). In fact, it is the first time any Western leader has ever had...

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24 Mar

[Noëlle Quénivet is Professor in International Law at the Bristol Law School of the University of West of England (UK). She holds a LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Nottingham and a PhD in Law from the University of Essex] When the Council of Europe and Ukraine signed an agreement on 25 June 2025 establishing the Special...

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23 Mar

[Iva Vukušić is an Assistant Professor in International History at Utrecht University and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King's College London] The likelihood of arrest of high-level leaders indicted by international courts is always a topic of discussion among those interested in accountability and justice for international crimes. However, since the 2023 International Criminal Court (ICC)...

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23 Mar

[Diane A. Desierto is full Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame’s Law School, the Faculty Director of the LLM Program in International Human Rights Law, and Founding Director of the Notre Dame Law School Global Human Rights Clinic.] Heads of State can attempt to assert their traditional immunities and privileges before international criminal court proceedings, but they will find that...

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