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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


A Just Sudan: In Conversation with Moneim Adam
Moneim Adam is a human rights attorney and the Gisa Group’s Program Director for the Sudan Human Rights Hub (SHRH). He began his career...

Solomon Njombai
24 min read


Where are the Women? An Insight into their Presence in International Law
This article discusses international agreements such as the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (DEVAW) and the...

Varda Saxena
14 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


Ukrainian Heritage Held Hostage: Crimean Gold’s Long Way Home
I. Introduction 2014 was the beginning of a turbulent but crucial journey for the Ukrainian identity to gain a foothold. In February of...

Leila Kazimi
18 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


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


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


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


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


Should Terrorism be Regarded as an International Crime? An Examination of the Theoretical Benefits and the Practical Reality
Introduction An international crime is ‘an act universally recognised as criminal, which is considered a grave matter of international...

Eoin Campbell
13 min read


Warfare’s Silent Victim: International Humanitarian Law and the Protection of the Natural Environment during Armed Conflict
I: Introduction Armed conflict changes everything.[1] It is the ultimate human-induced crisis that has devastating consequences for the...

Lydia Millar
34 min read


Holding War Criminals to Account: The Challenges Presented by Information Warfare
The physical battlefield of the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia is being closely scrutinised by the global community: each day,...

Alexandra Agnew, Mishcon de Reya
11 min read


Given the Court at Strasbourg’s Jurisprudence, Are Fair Trials Achievable Under the ECHR?
The Court of Strasbourg is a lighthouse, a lookout. Jean-Paul Costa[1] Introduction The Convention for the Protection...

Damian P Clancy
34 min read


Art Lost and Found: In Conversation with Christopher Marinello
Christopher A Marinello is an expert in recovering stolen, looted, and missing works of art. A lawyer for over 38 years, Marinello began...

Alex Charilaou
10 min read


Global Crises and the Community of Democracies
There are certain global issues that pay no attention to national borders or natural barriers: climate change; the COVID-19 pandemic;...

Thomas Garrett
13 min read


Splendid Isolation or Fish out of Water? Fishing, Brexit, and the Iconography of a Maritime Nation
1. The fish are alright Historically and presently, the United Kingdom has identified and presented itself as a maritime...

Aadil Siddiqi and Nathan Davies
19 min read
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