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The Challenges and Possibilities of International Criminal Law: In Conversation with Johann Soufi
Johann Soufi is a Franco-Algerian international lawyer and prosecutor, and a former Senior Legal Officer at the United Nations. He has...

Nadia Jahnecke
20 min read


Neither Maid nor Man: In Conversation with Alex Garden
A snapshot in time of English folk music, queer visibility, and gender non-conformity Alex Garden is a fiddle player, guitarist,...

Abi Dore
23 min read


The Syrian Conflict: The Myth of Containment and the Realities of Accountability
How and why the international community failed Syria One of the most unforgiving aspects of the Syrian Conflict is the fact that its...

Ammar Abdulhamid
19 min read


Defending a Navy Nurse in Guantanamo Bay: In Conversation with Ronald W Meister
Ronald W Meister is a distinguished legal professional serving as Senior Counsel at Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman in New York City. Holding...

Nadia Jahnecke
13 min read


Life as a Hazara Woman in Afghanistan: In Conversation with Soomaya Javadi
Soomaya Javadi is a Hazara human rights activist who fled Afghanistan with the help of the 30 Birds Foundation. Actively advocating...

Nadia Jahnecke
19 min read


Guantanamo Bay and the Court of Public Opinion: In Conversation with Clive Stafford Smith
Clive Stafford Smith is a British human rights lawyer who has spent his career working against the death penalty in the United States,...

Nadia Jahnecke
19 min read


The Old Man of the Syrian Revolution: In Conversation with Riad al-Turk
Riad al-Turk was a political opposition leader, lawyer, and human rights activist from Homs, Syria. By many Syrians he is seen as a...

Nour Kachi
10 min read


Resilience Amplified—Refugees Collectively Redefining Inclusivity and Reimagining Europe's Future
In his opening remarks during the 74th ExCom of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in October 2023, the High Commissioner Filipo Grandi...


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 Hollander Goldberg Urias & Ward PA, and an Associate Tenant with Doughty Street Chambers, London, UK. The inspiring story of her efforts in freeing Mohamedou Ould Slahi from Guantanamo Bay, where he was held from 2002 to 2016 without charge, were recently captured by the legal drama film The Mauritanian , in which she was played by Jodie Foster. CJ

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 his shirt collar rises to speak, gesturing inanely at an electronic display. His hands twitch with glee as he highlights data points and maps out forecasts. ‘Returns for this quarter are exceptional, a threefold uptick on last year. Our customer base has expanded markedly. Any number of substantial brand deals. And a few bookings of particular

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, people he had never heard of, and at times Marcus thought the voice on the other end of the line must have been speaking in a foreign language, unfamiliar noises which were sometimes guttural and heavy and sometimes airborne and breathy, and sometimes somewhere in the middle. All he had been able to make out was a time and address, which he

Jack Graveney
6 min read
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