The Age of Robert H. Jackson: London, Nuremberg, Today – Live Webinar

The Age of Robert H. Jackson: London, Nuremberg, Today – Live Webinar

By: Sam Rouse, JD ’22 The Robert H. Jackson Center celebrated the 75th anniversary of the signing of the London Agreement and Charter with a global webinar on The Age of Robert H. Jackson – London, Nuremberg, Today on August 8, 2020. The webinar was co-sponsored by...
Prospects for a Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity

Prospects for a Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity

[Madaline George is the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute Fellow at Washington University School of Law.] This post originally appeared on OpinioJuris. More than 70 years after crimes against humanity were defined in Article 6(c) of the London Charter and...
Fiddling While Rome Burns?  The Appeals Chamber’s Curious Decision in Prosecutor v. Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo

Fiddling While Rome Burns? The Appeals Chamber’s Curious Decision in Prosecutor v. Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo

By Leila Nadya Sadat (originally posted on EJIL: Talk!) On March 21, 2016, after a 4-1/2 year-long trial that heard the testimony of 77 witnesses, the introduction of 773 items of evidence, and gave rise to a transcript that was thousands of pages long, a unanimous...
Upcoming Publication of Seeking Accountability for the Unlawful Use of Force

Upcoming Publication of Seeking Accountability for the Unlawful Use of Force

By: Fizza Batool The Harris Institute is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of Seeking Accountability for the Unlawful Use of Force, edited by Professor Leila Nadya Sadat (Cambridge University Press, May 2018).  The book evaluates historic and modern-day...
“Mind the Gap”- ICC ASP Side Event on Progress in Drafting a Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity

“Mind the Gap”- ICC ASP Side Event on Progress in Drafting a Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity

By: Leila Nadya Sadat and Fizza Batool On December 11, 2017, the Harris Institute hosted a well-attended Side Event entitled “Progress in Drafting a Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity” at the Sixteenth Session of the Assembly of...