Nettsider med emneord «Criminal law»

By Nobuo Hayashi, Researcher, PluriCourts

Researcher Carola Lingaas offers her approach to the definition of race in international criminal law.

The blogpost was first published on Voelkerrechtsblog.

An article by postdoctoral fellow Shakira Bedoya Sanchez and Dr. Markus Virgil Hoehne will be published shortly by Berghahn Books as part of a volume entitled 'Universalism vs. Relativism: Human Rights in Anthropological Perspective'.

Article by Juan Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo, published in Nordic Journal of International Law.

Article by Juan Pablo Pérez León Acevedo in Pace International Law Review. 

Book review by Carola Lingaas, published in Human Rights Law Review

Article by Juan Pablo Pérez León Acevedo, published in Nordic Journal of Human Rights.

Female foreign fighters are framed as delusional, emotionally unstable, and naïve jihadi brides in search of a husband. This narrative can be dangerous, explains Ester Strømmen at PluriCourts.

Below is information on official sources and research data on the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals. A lot of the research datasets on these courts include data on several of the tribunals.

In April more than 30 people were killed by a chemical weapon attack in Syria. Despite clear evidence that serious international crimes have been committed, and despite numerous calls to hold those responsible to account, the international criminal justice system seems, at present at least, to be impotent.

PhD fellow Emma Brandon investigates the process by which states give, modify, and terminate their consent to the jurisdiction of international criminal and human rights tribunals.

By Nino Tsereteli, Researcher, MultiRights/PluriCourts 

Daniel Naurin, Coordinator and Professor of Political Science, PluriCourts.

By Joanna Nicholson, Researcher, PluriCourts

BBC News posted an article earlier today entitled “South Africa to withdraw from war crimes court”.  The tone of the piece is reflective of a general trend within the media towards poorly nuanced reporting as regards the International Criminal Court (ICC) and African states. Framed reporting such as this will only add flames to the legitimacy difficulties that the court is currently facing.

By Joanna Nicholson, Researcher, PluriCourts

Contribution from postdoctoral fellow Juan Pablo Pérez-Léon Acevedo.

PluriCourts postdoc Silje Aambø Langvatn has together with Sofie A.E. Høgestøl written a book review of International Criminal Justice: Legitimacy and Coherence, edited by G. Boas, W. A. Schabas and M. P. Scharf. The review is published in the Nordic Journal of International Law, vol. 83, no. 3. Read the review.

On the 21st of September, PluriCourts, with generous funding from the Norwegian Research Council and Lovsamlingsfondet, brought together young researchers from around the world for the first postgraduate colloquium on the frontiers of international environmental law. Topics from the creation of a court for the environment, to prosecuting the crime of ecocide at the ICC, to the legal consequences of space debris were discussed.

Juan Pablo Peréz León Acevedo has co-authored an article in the Berkley Journal of International Law with Thiago Felipe Alves Pinto. 

PluriCourts will organise an authors' workshop to kick off a volume on ”International Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare & the legitimacy of international human rights courts and treaty bodies”, edited by Alicia Eli Yamin (Harvard School of Public Health) and Siri Gloppen (PluriCourts).

The fourth PluriCourts Lunch features an introduction to one of the five pillars of research at PluriCourts: International Criminal Law, led by Professor Cecilia Bailliet.

All welcome!

Gowland Debbas will present some of her recent work on international courts during an informal PluriCourts lunch on Monday 9th december.

Three researchers from the University of Oslo attended the annual meeting of the Assembly of State Parties (ASP), in The Hague as observers, and will discuss their observations during the last PluriCourts lunch of 2013.

All welcome!