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Making the Case for Prosecuting the Taliban for Crimes Against Humanity and Gender Apartheid in the ICC for the Unlawful Imprisonment of Afghan Women and Girls
Since 15 August 2021, the Taliban Government continues to suppress the progression of women’s basic human rights in Afghanistan,...
Kimberley Motley
20 min read
Exposing Torture Crimes in Russian Prisons: In Conversation with Vladimir Osechkin
Vladimir Osechkin is a Russian-born human rights activist and founder of Gulagu.net, an NGO that documents and exposes crimes committed...
Nadia Jahnecke
11 min read
Humanitarian Complicity in Genocide
This article explores an uncomfortable reality that locates international humanitarian and development organisations as sometimes...
Penny Green and Thomas MacManus
34 min read
Doubtful Legislative Innovations: Criminalising Wartime Collaboration during Russian Aggression in Ukraine
1. Historical Overview of Wartime Collaboration
Artem Nazarko
36 min read
Defending Global LGBT Rights: In Conversation with Téa Braun
Téa Braun is the Chief Executive of the Human Dignity Trust. She oversees all of the core legal work of the Trust and has been involved...
Abi Dore
16 min read
Lessons From International Tribunals: In Conversation with Anabela Alves
Anabela Alves is a Portuguese lawyer having served as Legal Advisor to Chambers at the ICTY and later as Legal Advisor to the Presidency...
Aidan Johnson
22 min read
Justice for Victims and Survivors of Sexual Violence related to Russia’s Armed Aggression in Ukraine
І. Sexual violence as Russia’s weapon in the war against Ukraine: History and the present
Khrystyna Kit
10 min read
A Palestinian Lawyer’s Battle for Justice: In Conversation with Raji Sourani
Raji Sourani is a Palestinian human rights lawyer and Founder and Director of the Palestinian Centre of Human Rights. He was an Amnesty...
Shahad Alkamas
25 min read
From the ‘Prison of Darkness’ to Guantanamo Bay: In Conversation with Mark P Denbeaux
Professor Mark P Denbeaux is an American attorney, professor, and author. He holds the position of Law Professor at Seton Hall University...
Angelina Spilnyk
24 min read
An Avenue to Justice for Afghan Women: Bringing a CEDAW Case Before the International Court of Justice
An Avenue to Justice for Afghan Women: Bringing a CEDAW Case Before the International Court of Justice[1] In a tumultuous Afghanistan,...
A Journey through the Many Faces of Accountability: In Conversation with the Legal Advisors at eyeWitness to Atrocities
Anna Gallina is a Legal Consultant at eyeWitness to Atrocities. Julianne Romy formerly worked as a Legal Advisor at eyeWitness to...
eyeWitness to Atrocities
24 min read
Justice Through Information: In Conversation with Francisco B González Centeno
Francisco B González Centeno is an officer for the International Criminal Court (ICC) from Buenos Aries, Argentina. He holds an MSc in...
Nour Kachi
15 min read
Reparations for Atrocity Victims in Ukraine: Survivors’ Aspirations and the Emerging Legal Framework
Introduction Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, especially its full-scale unfolding since 2022, has highlighted many important issues...
Kateryna Busol
22 min read
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
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
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
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
Making the Law ‘Take its Own Course’
Does the law take its own course or is it made to take a certain course? Property cases are notorious for taking forever, but when the...
Jyoti Punwani
20 min read
Bonnie and Clyde, Schopenhauer, and the Paradox and Problem of Innocence
In the 1967 gangster road movie Bonnie and Clyde , the often-horrific events of the real-life story are cut with ingenuous humour and...
Paul Pickering
5 min read
‘What’s in a Name?’: The Role of Motive in the Definition of a ‘Terrorist Act’ under the Australian Commonwealth Criminal Code
Motive is traditionally considered to be an unwelcome guest in criminal trials, a bête noire that should only appear at a sentencing....
Deborah White
22 min read
The Cis-normativity of Consent in Deceptive Sexual Relations
1. Introduction
Juana de Leon
42 min read
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