[Dr. Jelena Aparac is lecturer and legal advisor in international law, with a research focused on Business and Human Rights in Armed Conflicts; and a Member of the UN Working
Group on mercenaries. This is the second part of a two-part post. This is part of a series of blog posts examining International Criminal Law and the Protection [...]
In Part Two of this blog, I turn to the second of the Prosecutor’s arguments in favour of the Court’s territorial jurisdiction with regard to the “Situation in Palestine”.
This is that Palestine is a State irrespective of its status as a party to the Statute. [...]
[Dr. Jelena Aparac is lecturer and legal advisor in international law, with a research focused on Business and Human Rights in Armed Conflicts; and a Member of the UN Working
Group on mercenaries. This is the first part of a two-part post. This is part of a series of blog posts examining International Criminal Law and the Protection of [...]
Various areas of international law highlight the value of information and the essential role of the obligation to notify in fulfilling other duties. The current COVID-19 global
crisis has further stressed the significance of notification requirements, given the hypothesized possibility that the pandemic could have been averted had the obligation [...]
On 30 April 2020, the ICC Prosecutor issued her Response to the Observations of Amici Curiae, Legal Representatives of Victims, and States in the “Situation in the State
of Palestine” matter. This has brought into focus a substantial debate as to what constitutes a State. [...]
In the aftermath of gross human rights abuses, when, if at all, should we forego legal accountability? Human rights scholars debated this question in the 1980s and 1990s, in
what was referred to as the “peace versus justice” debate. The “justice” side won the day in the human rights community, where the dominant position is that [...]
Readers might be interested in recent developments with regard to the legal proceedings brought against Prof Wojciech Sadurski in Poland, which form part of a transparent campaign
at silencing dissenting voices in academia and elsewhere in Polish society, and on which Gráinne de Búrca and John Morijn wrote an excellent post on Verfassungsblog. [...]
