Mark Kersten has a very interesting post up over at his blog Justice in Conflict, titled “Why the ICC Should Think Twice before Investigating Conflicts with Roots Before 2002.” In it, he reflects on the temporal limits of the International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction, and more specifically on the consequences of the ICC’s involvement in conflicts that [...]
As I have not blogged in a while, and as the situation in Libya has been getting a lot of coverage by legal blogs and other forums, I decided to cover this situation in a more original and structured fashion than usual. Instead of the usual ad hoc commenting, I intend to write a series of [...]
In the days following the UN Security Council’s resolution referring Libya to the International Criminal Court, one major player has been notably silent: the African Union. The UNSC resolution, without naming names, cites “hostility and violence against the civilian population made from the highest level of the LIbyan government.” Although, as Dov Jacobs of Spreading [...]
Monday, February 28, 2011
The unanimous adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1970 last Saturday, which imposes sanctions on the Gaddafi regime and refers the situation in Libya since 15 February 2011 to the International Criminal Court has generated quite a debate and discussion in the international law blogosphere. I myself wrote a commentary of the Resolution yesterday, but I [...]
Sunday, February 27, 2011
After some debate and opposition, the United Nations Security Council has voted unanimously in favor of Resolution 1970 (2011) (full text – HTML format) which imposes sanctions on the Gaddafi regime and refers the situation to the International Criminal Court. The resolution, and the observations made by commenters, raise several issues I would like to [...]
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Callixte Mbarushimana, the FDLR leader wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes allegedly committed in the Kivus in 2009, was transferred by the French authorities to The Hague yesterday. See the Jurist report here. Callixte Mbarushimana is the fifth person to be arrested following the issuance of an arrest warrant by the International Criminal [...]
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
After Callixte Mbarushimana’s failure to stop the French authorities from transferring him to The Hague, Nicholas Kaufmann, his lawyer, has a new trick up his sleeve to try to get his client released: contesting the validity of the arrest warrant that was issued on 28 September 2010. We are not yet even close to the [...]
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
After Callixte Mbarushimana’s failure to stop the French authorities from transferring him to The Hague, Nicholas Kaufmann, his lawyer, has a new trick up his sleeve to try to get his client released: contesting the validity of the arrest warrant that was issued on 28 September 2010. We are not yet even close to the [...]
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
David Bosco is raising the alarm on his excellent blog The Multilateralist over at Foreign Policy on some potentially very bad news for the international criminal justice project, regarding the ICC’s difficulties in Africa and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s delicate mission in an explosive-as-ever Lebanon. The post is not very long, so it is difficult for [...]
Thursday, January 6, 2011
As readers may know, I have been paying particular attention to the African Union’s attempt to put together a comprehensive counter-terrorism treaty, and have already posted some thoughts on the matter on the al-Wasat blog a few days before Christmas. A few more thoughts occurred to me today as I was reading (for my current [...]
