For the International Criminal Court (ICC), the year 2012 ended with a bang: on 18 December, Trial Chamber II acquitted…
‘Mr Prosecutor, you did a poor job.’ This is, in barely exaggerated terms, the message implicit in the ICC trial…
The legal bases for return can be found in eight branches of international law: (1) inter-State nationality law, (2) law…
Alongside the road on the Dalmatian coast, just a few miles away from Dubrovnik, the portrait of a man in…
In contrast, ‘truly automated weapons’ (‘TAWs’) can be used without any human action. A rudimentary example would be a land…
Following the words of Resolution 1757, the STL has been founded as a hybrid Tribunal “mindful of the demand of…
Called “a victory for humanity” by Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the conviction of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo of conscripting and enlisting child…
In another blog, Mogogo Albanese and I set out why President Bashir could continue travelling without legal fear for arrest:…
In substantive terms, the fulcrum of the matter is seen to be the requirement of ‘complementarity’ within the ICC Statute,…
The ICC is an institution of great promise. International lawyers like to boast, as they should, that the introduction of…