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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.

The Paris Agreement will enter into force on 4 November 2016. The agreement requires the deposition of instruments of ratification or acceptance by at least 55 Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change accounting for at least 55% of global greenhouse gas emissions. 

This post is the second part of a post describing a conference hosted by Pluricourts which took place in Oslo earlier this week.

By Stian Øby Johansen, PhD Candidate, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo

This week, Pluricourts, University of Oslo, hosted a two day conference entitled ‘Strengthening the Validity of International Criminal Tribunals.’ The purpose of the conference was to explore ways in which the field of international criminal law (ICL) can improve, and lessons that can be learnt, as ICL enters a more mature phase in its development.