Santiago Vargas Niño
@santiagovargasn.bsky.social
Colombian lawyer helping combat tax & financial crime • Lecturer at Uniandes • Int'l (Criminal, Humanitarian, Human Rights) Law • Formerly at the ICC (x5) • Adv LLM in PIL (Leiden, '16), LLB, & BA in PoliSci (Uniandes, '12) • Personal views
As an alumnus of @leidenlaw.bsky.social, it's a pleasure to contribute to the globally renowned @grotiuscentre.bsky.social - @ibanews.bsky.social ICC Moot Court Competition. Thanks for your tireless promotion of justice in an increasingly lawless world. Future generations will appreciate this effort
July 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
As an alumnus of @leidenlaw.bsky.social, it's a pleasure to contribute to the globally renowned @grotiuscentre.bsky.social - @ibanews.bsky.social ICC Moot Court Competition. Thanks for your tireless promotion of justice in an increasingly lawless world. Future generations will appreciate this effort
Very proud to have presented the DIAN's 2024 prioritisation strategy during the Third Ibero-American Congress on Criminal Tax Law hosted by Buenos Aires University (🇦🇷), Complutense University (🇪🇸), and Pontificia Javeriana University (🇨🇴) in Bogotá, D.C.
May 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Very proud to have presented the DIAN's 2024 prioritisation strategy during the Third Ibero-American Congress on Criminal Tax Law hosted by Buenos Aires University (🇦🇷), Complutense University (🇪🇸), and Pontificia Javeriana University (🇨🇴) in Bogotá, D.C.
On my way back to The Hague for the General Assembly of the Association of Young International Criminal Lawyers. Hit me up if you're keen on meeting!
December 12, 2024 at 9:12 PM
On my way back to The Hague for the General Assembly of the Association of Young International Criminal Lawyers. Hit me up if you're keen on meeting!
Interns and visiting professionals have been the lifeblood of prosection services, judiciaries, and defence/victims teams since the dawn of ICL.
Yet our voices are seldom heard.
If you believe we deserve #ASeatAtTheTable, support my nomination to the board of directors of the YICL this December!
Yet our voices are seldom heard.
If you believe we deserve #ASeatAtTheTable, support my nomination to the board of directors of the YICL this December!
December 6, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Interns and visiting professionals have been the lifeblood of prosection services, judiciaries, and defence/victims teams since the dawn of ICL.
Yet our voices are seldom heard.
If you believe we deserve #ASeatAtTheTable, support my nomination to the board of directors of the YICL this December!
Yet our voices are seldom heard.
If you believe we deserve #ASeatAtTheTable, support my nomination to the board of directors of the YICL this December!
I'm amongst the 0,001% of listeners to a song that repeatedly asks someone if she can stay with me, so... pretty normal 🫠
December 4, 2024 at 10:16 PM
I'm amongst the 0,001% of listeners to a song that repeatedly asks someone if she can stay with me, so... pretty normal 🫠
Show this to anyone who keeps repeating the shameless lie that heads of state enjoy immunity from prosecution for core crimes before international courts 🤠
December 4, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Show this to anyone who keeps repeating the shameless lie that heads of state enjoy immunity from prosecution for core crimes before international courts 🤠
Yesterday, I had the honour of presenting an overview of the investigation of tax crimes by DIAN and Colombia's Office of the Attorney General as part of the OECD's Latin American Academy for Tax and Financial Crime Investigation foundational programme on financial investigations.
November 30, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Yesterday, I had the honour of presenting an overview of the investigation of tax crimes by DIAN and Colombia's Office of the Attorney General as part of the OECD's Latin American Academy for Tax and Financial Crime Investigation foundational programme on financial investigations.
If you believe thatwe deserve #A_Seat_at_the_Table, like I do, I encourage you to support my nomination for the #Board of #Directors of the Association of Young International Criminal Lawyers.
Vote opens on 6 December 2024!
(6/6)
Vote opens on 6 December 2024!
(6/6)
November 26, 2024 at 2:31 PM
If you believe thatwe deserve #A_Seat_at_the_Table, like I do, I encourage you to support my nomination for the #Board of #Directors of the Association of Young International Criminal Lawyers.
Vote opens on 6 December 2024!
(6/6)
Vote opens on 6 December 2024!
(6/6)
Honoured to have been admitted as a candidate for the Board of Directors of the Association of Young International Criminal Lawyers. I seek to work on increasing membership, establishing regional contact points across the world, and providing a platform to (former) IVPs at ICTs. Vote opens on 6/12!
November 25, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Honoured to have been admitted as a candidate for the Board of Directors of the Association of Young International Criminal Lawyers. I seek to work on increasing membership, establishing regional contact points across the world, and providing a platform to (former) IVPs at ICTs. Vote opens on 6/12!
Keane on Saturday and Iron Maiden on Sunday. This sure as hell is my kind of weekend. I love you, Bogotá, you lively hellish beautiful melting pot ❤️🔥
November 25, 2024 at 4:42 AM
Keane on Saturday and Iron Maiden on Sunday. This sure as hell is my kind of weekend. I love you, Bogotá, you lively hellish beautiful melting pot ❤️🔥
Two of the most significant paragraphs written in the history of ICL:
November 23, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Two of the most significant paragraphs written in the history of ICL:
There's something poetic about cleaning your fountain pen. As if the clogged ink flowing into the water represented all those words you couldn't write.
November 20, 2024 at 8:09 PM
There's something poetic about cleaning your fountain pen. As if the clogged ink flowing into the water represented all those words you couldn't write.
Teaching my fave topic: modes of liability under ICL.
Trust me, there's method to the madness 🤠.
Trust me, there's method to the madness 🤠.
November 19, 2024 at 1:29 AM
Teaching my fave topic: modes of liability under ICL.
Trust me, there's method to the madness 🤠.
Trust me, there's method to the madness 🤠.
"Live from Grains Against Humanity in The Hague, the city of peace and justice... " 😆
November 17, 2024 at 11:05 PM
"Live from Grains Against Humanity in The Hague, the city of peace and justice... " 😆
I refuse to join BlueSky - I don’t want to become part of an art déco chamber.
November 17, 2024 at 6:19 PM
I refuse to join BlueSky - I don’t want to become part of an art déco chamber.
Emily Armstrong ate 🤘🏼
November 17, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Emily Armstrong ate 🤘🏼
Can't quite believe that I saw one of my favourite bands from my early teens live in Bogotá this week 😭 I hope that Chester was smiling from his cool Proto-Indo-European statue in heaven ❤️🔥
November 17, 2024 at 12:04 AM
Can't quite believe that I saw one of my favourite bands from my early teens live in Bogotá this week 😭 I hope that Chester was smiling from his cool Proto-Indo-European statue in heaven ❤️🔥
Very happy with my new bookends. This may be the first time astronauts have been spotted at Colombia's tax and customs administration, aka DIAN.
November 15, 2024 at 1:45 AM
Very happy with my new bookends. This may be the first time astronauts have been spotted at Colombia's tax and customs administration, aka DIAN.
Beatriz Mayans-Hermida, PhD (VU Amsterdam) and Eugenia Valenzuela (ICC - OTP) discussing alternative punishment at Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace (N.B. it's yet to issue its first judgment) and the OTP's new policy on complementarity last week in Bogotá.
November 10, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Beatriz Mayans-Hermida, PhD (VU Amsterdam) and Eugenia Valenzuela (ICC - OTP) discussing alternative punishment at Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace (N.B. it's yet to issue its first judgment) and the OTP's new policy on complementarity last week in Bogotá.
At @mhproulx.bsky.social's request: voici the official @bsky.app ICL (adjacent) starter pack. Become one of us 🧟♂️🧟♀️
go.bsky.app/CNaLAwU
go.bsky.app/CNaLAwU
November 9, 2024 at 2:30 PM
At @mhproulx.bsky.social's request: voici the official @bsky.app ICL (adjacent) starter pack. Become one of us 🧟♂️🧟♀️
go.bsky.app/CNaLAwU
go.bsky.app/CNaLAwU
Thrilled to have met with Laura Dib (WOLA) and Salvador Herencia-Carrasco during their participation in the 2024 LASA conference in Bogotá.
June 15, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Thrilled to have met with Laura Dib (WOLA) and Salvador Herencia-Carrasco during their participation in the 2024 LASA conference in Bogotá.
So grateful for hybrid events that allow me to stay in touch with the field of ICL from afar ❤️🔥
January 20, 2024 at 4:20 PM
So grateful for hybrid events that allow me to stay in touch with the field of ICL from afar ❤️🔥
You can take this guy out of ICL, but not ICL out ouf this guy 🫡
December 23, 2023 at 4:15 PM
You can take this guy out of ICL, but not ICL out ouf this guy 🫡
Should this be my last practical contribution to the field of international criminal law, I'd be proud. Just presented guidelines on the legal characterisation and attribution of reproductive violence as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes at Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace.
November 3, 2023 at 10:23 PM
Should this be my last practical contribution to the field of international criminal law, I'd be proud. Just presented guidelines on the legal characterisation and attribution of reproductive violence as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes at Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace.
Rosters: the friend zone of international criminal law 🫠.
November 2, 2023 at 9:21 AM
Rosters: the friend zone of international criminal law 🫠.