“The Long Haul”, a new documentary on the global backlash against human rights is currently in production, and seeking crowdfunding. Produced as a tribute to Sir Nigel
Rodley (1941-2017), the film hopes to encourage discussion about the future of human rights as well as the movement’s history, impact, and legal framework. [...]
On Friday 8th March 2019 (International Women’s Day) a conference is to take place at the University of Georgia School of Law. The International Criminal Court and the Community
of Nations intends to bring together experts for a day of informative panels on the International Criminal Court’s relation to various constituent communities. [...]
From The Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/patricia-wald-pathbreaking-federal-judge-who-became-chief-of-dc-circuit-dies-at-90/2019/01/12/6ab03904-1688-11e9-803c-4ef28312c8b9_story.html
Image courtesy of Michael Williamson/the Washington Post [...]
PRESS RELEASE 13 January 2019, Diyarakir, Turkey Women delegation from Ireland, Britain and Italy call for the unlawful prison policy of isolation to end.
The health of Hakkari 55 year old MP Leyla Güven, who started a hunger strike on 8 November 2018, has reached a life-threatening stage. [...]
From the 10th-11th January 2019, the University of Leeds will be hosting a law conference on ‘Cosmopolitan Pluralism and International Criminal Justice’. This two day event
will consist of a lecture on ‘Global Legal Pluralism’ by Professor Paul Schiff Berman on Thursday 10th, followed by a roundtable discussion on Friday 11th, with [...]
On 14 December 2018, the Prosecutor of the ICC, Mme Fatou Bensouda, updated the Security Council on the Situation in Darfur. Ms Bensouda’s statement is available in full
here: [...]
OUPblog presents the top ten development in International Law during 2018: blog.oup.com/2018/12/top-ten-developments-international-law-2018/ Courtesy of Oxford University
Press [...]
Written by Joshua Kern Gabriel M. Lentner’s “The UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court: The Referral Mechanism in Theory and Practice” is a timely
and important contribution. As the title suggests, the monograph (published by Elgar in November 2018) focuses on the relationship between the UN Security Council [...]
Written by Lennart Poulsen This blog considers the concept and application of the principle of universal jurisdiction, its current limitations and its future potential. The
publicity surrounding November’s G20 meeting in Buenos Aires was noticeable for reasons other than the economic and geo-political mainstays that tend to feature [...]
Written by Margaret Owen (pictured), International Trial Observer and Barrister On Wednesday 12th December 2018, Solicitor-Advocate Ali Has, Thomas Phillips of Liverpool University,
and myself arrive in Ankara to attend the sixth hearing of the case against Selahattin Demirtas, former co-chair of Turkey’s HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party). [...]
