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Prosecuting Rebels in International Criminal Justice
This chapter focuses on the intersection of rebels and their prosecution for mass atrocities in international criminal justice through the...
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International Criminal Jurisdiction of the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights: Promoting or Obstructing Accountability?
African Countries participated fully in the efforts leading to the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 1998 and enthusiastically...
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s First Years on the Court
With the addition of each new Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court, the question is how will the new Justice change the Court? Change can be measured...
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‘An Effective Complement to National Criminal Justice Systems, Operating Within the Highest Standards of International Justice’? African States, the International Criminal Court & Complementarity
The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court provides that the International Criminal Court (ICC or ‘the Court’) will not exercise...
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The International Criminal Court
The establishing of the International Criminal Court and its first twenty years of existence serve to illustrate the complex interplay of law and...
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The Supreme Court of Israel
The Israeli Supreme Court is one of the most influential supreme courts in modern democracies. In its various roles, and especially as the high court...
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Some Questions of International Law
Contemplates a number of issues pertaining to international law. The first section outlines the transition from colony to independent Jamaica. The...
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Pursuing International Criminal Justice, the ICC, and Palestine
The aim here is to trace some of the arguments that have been offered regarding what role (if any) recourse to the ICC might play in the pursuit of a...
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International Justice and the International Criminal Court at a Critical Juncture
This chapter focuses on two areas in the field of international criminal justice—loosely defined as the international criminal tribunals that...
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Expanding the Scope of Complementarity? Towards Institutionalised Complementarity Between the International Criminal Court and National Criminal Justice Systems in Africa
The current stand-off between the African Union (AU) and African states on one side and the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the other side has...
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A Critical Assessment of the International Crimes Division of the High Court of Uganda
The post-colonial period in Uganda was marked by acrimonious relations between various ethnic groups. The result was a fragile state and successive...
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Feeling Justice
This chapter shows that paying close attention to feelings helps elucidate how the elements of justicecraft—the skills, knowledge, labor, affect, and...
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Critical Interventions: Human Rights and International Justice in Kashmir
This article argues for the relevance of human rights mechanisms for international interventions in Kashmir. Building on long-standing local and...
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The Rohingya of Myanmar: R2P, International Justice and Accountability
This chapter examines the Rohingya crisis of Myanmar from a Responsibility to Protect (R2P) lens and primarily reflects on the role of the...
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The nomos of citizenship: migrant rights, law and the possibility of justice
Superficially, citizenship appears relatively simple: a legal status denoting political membership. However, critical citizenship studies scholars...
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The Community Court of Justice of the Ecowas and the Advancement of Human Rights and Social Justice Reform in West Africa: Three Landmark Cases
This chapter examines the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS Court), and its role within the region...
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Implementing the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP): Coordinating Approaches Between the United Nations Security Council and the International Criminal Court
To date the only international organisations with a global reach and tasked with responding to atrocity crimes such as war crimes, crimes against...
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The EU’s Legal Identities and the Court of Justice of the EU
This paper aims to analyse whether ‘economic integration through law’ still is one of the EU’s central identities. From the 1960s to the Maastricht...
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Access to Justice
When it comes to discussion of access to justiceaccess to justice within the context of human rights, conversation is often focused on a narrow...
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Being Justice
This chapter scrutinizes what is justice in a technology-driven society in which communities are inundated with, and increasingly rely on, big data...