I had been meaning to write a series of posts on the travails of R2P and the situation in Libya a few months ago. Although I had announced that I would be writing on these issues, I regrettably never found the time to write anything publishable. Time is as ever short as it has been [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
For those who are looking for it, the link to watch the ICC Prosecutor’s Press Conference regarding the investigations and prosecutions in the situation in Kenya is the following: http://livestream.xs4all.nl/icc5.asx The ICC website seems to be down at the moment of writing, but hopefully they’ll get it fixed within the 8 next minutes. UPDATE: The [...]
Saturday, December 4, 2010
This is a guest post by my good friend and journalist Mélanie Gouby, who is currently in the Kivus, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Being aware of her views on the Bemba Trial, I asked her if she would be willing to write a guest post for The International Jurist to share them [...]
Saturday, November 27, 2010
The Economist, one of my favorite sources for news and analysis, has a great piece on international justice in this week’s edition, that offers a very much on-the-spot assessment on the status of international criminal justice and the challenges ahead. Although the article starts by explaining that international criminal justice, whether through the International Criminal [...]
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
The current tensions between the African Union and the International Criminal Court are often the object of international criminal lawyers’ discussions, and are particularly seized upon by skeptics and critics of the Court. For the Court and its supporters however, it has also been the subject of much reflection and concern, and this up to [...]
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
The International Criminal Court, in a press release published today, announced that Pre-Trial Chamber I (PTC I) rendered a decision in which it requested that Kenya informs the Chamber by the 29 October about “any problem which would impede or prevent the arrest of Omar al-Bashir in the event that he visits their country on [...]
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Part II of my posts on the difficulties raised when international justice encounters “foreign” cultures (see Part I here) – or to be more exact, cultures and cultural paradigms it is not familiar with – is due to the fascinating conference I attended this evening at the T.M. C. Asser Institute as part of [...]
Good news just arrived from the International Criminal Court a few hours ago: the Appeals Chamber is to render its decision in the Lubanga Case next week, on Friday 8 October. From the ICC’s website: The Appeals Chamber will deliver its Judgments in the Lubanga case on Friday, 8 October On Friday, 8 October, 2010, [...]
Cate and I have been monitoring this since the news that Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir would be visiting Kenya today broke yesterday evening (Central European Time), and have been tweeting about it since (follow us @cminall and @xrauscher_, respectively), but I was holding out to see what was going to happen today, and notably what [...]
