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International Criminal Law and the Russia-Ukraine War: In Conversation with Andrew Clapham
Andrew Clapham is Professor of International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute, which he joined in 1997. He was the first Director of...

Shahad Alkamas
23 min read


A Racial Justice Approach to Mitigation within Sentencing in the UK
A case for the enhanced pre-sentence report in England and Wales, exploring how the Canadian approach to racially disproportionate...

Ife Thompson
15 min read


How US Judges Failed the Rule of Law and Justice: In Conversation with Thomas B Wilner
Thomas B Wilner is the managing partner of Shearman & Sterling's International Trade and Global Relations Practice. In addition to this,...

Nadia Jahnecke
26 min read


The Mauritanian Speaks: In Conversation with Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Mohamedou Ould Slahi was detained at the inhumane Guantanamo Bay 'Detention Camp' for 14 years without charge. For 14 years, Mohamedou...

Nadia Jahnecke
21 min read


The UK’s Rwanda Asylum Plan: Bad for Refugees, Bad for Rwanda
Like many other Rwandans, I heard for the first time of the United Kingdom (UK)’s plan to send its unsolicited asylum seekers to Rwanda...

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza
36 min read


The War on Terror’s Obstruction of Justice: In Conversation with Nancy Hollander
Nancy Hollander is an internationally recognized criminal defense lawyer from the Albuquerque, New Mexico, firm of Freedman Boyd...

Nadia Jahnecke
26 min read


Life of Peaceful Resistance in Palestine: In Conversation with Issa Amro
Issa Amro is a Palestinian human rights defender who has lived in Hebron (West Bank) since his birth. For over two decades, he has been...

Shahad Alkamas
22 min read


Grasping ‘the Devil’ in the Details of the Syrian Government’s Response to Anti-Torture Prohibitions
Introduction ‘Drown them in the details’, a long-standing strategic tradition of the Syrian government, was cited by Syria’s foreign...

Mansour al-Omari
27 min read


Blaze of Glory
Applause in the executive boardroom. Hands pound backs, mouths twist into smiles. A round man with a stain of indecipherable grease on...

Jack Graveney
8 min read


Arborescence
Marcus did not know what to expect. The man with whom he had spoken on the phone made little sense. A number of names had been mentioned,...

Jack Graveney
6 min read


Where the Thames Meets the Sea
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to...

Julian Kirwan-Taylor
11 min read


Is Peace Merely About the Attainment of Justice? Transitional Justice in South Africa and the Former Yugoslavia
As a field of scholarship and practice, Transitional Justice (TJ) has become the dominant framework through which to consider ‘justice’...

Alejandro Posada Téllez
18 min read


Politics in a Multiplex World: In Conversation with Amitav Acharya
Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International...

Richa Kapoor
17 min read


Belief in a Myth and Myth as Fact: Towards a More Compassionate Sociology and Society
There exists a fine line that sociologists—and all social scientists—must tread as they try to knit together empirical, objective[1]...

Niamh Hodges
20 min read


Art under Siege: In Conversation with Mykhailo Glubokyi
Three Stories of Art and War II коли гуркочуть гармати- музи замовкають The Russian invasion catapulted the Ukrainian art world into...

Constance Uzwyshyn
10 min read


CJLPA 2: A word from the Editor-in-Chief
The role of The Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics, and Art in current public discourse I am often asked what I am trying to do with...

Alexander (Sami) Kardos-Nyheim
8 min read


Making Consent Meaningful Again: A Review of the Online ‘Consent’ Model and Alternative Approaches
I. Introduction From atoms to bits, digital convergence has made science fictions come true.[1] Web, mobile applications, smart homes,...

Jialiang Zhang
10 min read


A Flawed Democracy
Each year, The Economist publishes a Democracy Index. The 2022 edition listed 167 countries ranked on metrics of five dimensions:...

John Rennie Short
21 min read
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