The US administration has launched attacks on constitutional norms, law firms & government lawyers.

Join us for an evening in London on Monday 8 December with Professor David Cole from Georgetown & Columbia Law schools & former ACLU Legal Director.

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I am just a girl standing in front of you asking all my fellow critical legal scholars to perform a concrete analysis of a concrete situation rather than keep writing things whose citations are 90% from the 1990s and early 2000s.

The ICJ decision to dismiss the case against the UAE charged with genocide in Sudan will only embolden them to ramp up their support for the RSF including their drone support. These international systems of justice don't work, they merely delay justice.

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This legal case is one for history. It will define the world we and our children will live in.
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"To me, there is no greater perversion of international law & the cause of human rights than double-standards & selective justice, or lawfare masquerading as pseudo calls for accountability." Dr Fatou Bensouda

Dr Fatou Bensouda tells the Gray's Inn audience that "We are the cusp of a defining moment for the future of international law and international justice."

About Israel & Palestine, Dr Fatou Bensouda said it is important the full extent of criminality is investigated & accountability is finally had "for the benefit of its many victims on all sides of the conflict".

Dr Fatou Bensouda tells the audience at Gray's Inn tonight: "we must remain firmly principled & vigilant in the service of humanity & the fight against impunity for atrocity crimes".

That leads me to another aspect of the arrest warrants: The ICC is based on “complementarity”, it doesn’t act if states themselves are willing AND able to go after “their” criminals. Netanyahu could and should allow domestic proceedings against himself. Israel has a functioning legal system.

One could still try to argue that Netanyahu enjoys immunity because Israel never joined the ICC. But that would contravene an old practice: no immunity for grave crimes. Netanyahu should rather focus on showing he didn’t commit them instead of saying no court is allowed to look at his actions.

BUT the ICC is, as the name says, an international court. And there is a legal tradition to disregard immunities in international courts than can be traced back all the way to the end of the World Wars until Milošević, al-Bashir; Putin and now Netanyahu. The ICC statute itself is clear (art 27) 👇🏻

Now what about the substantial arguments? First, immunity: In general, prime ministers (like heads of state and foreign ministers) enjoy absolute immunity in the courts OF STATES (par in parem non habet imperium, states are legal equals and thus one state cannot rule over others).

The ICC does not treat Israel and Hamas identically or as morally or in any other way equivalent. They are involved in the same war, that’s why their leaders treated in parallel. But they are accused of different crimes because they (might) have committed different crimes. Simultaneity ≠ equivalence

Dame Caroline Swift, lead lawyer in the Harold Shipman inquiry and High Court judge, says the Leadbeater bill will create a class of doctors of death.

What have the bill's boosters have to say? Are they going to accuse her of not knowing what she's talking about?

A little butterfly 🦋 told me that you wanted 13 country-studies on states and their engagement with international criminal justice in one special issue.

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