by Harris Institute | Dec 15, 2015 | Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, International Criminal Law, The International Criminal Court, Uncategorized, United Nations
By: Tamara L. Slater Over the last three years, there has been an increasingly robust discussion within the United Nations about a new global convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity. A few weeks ago the UN General Assembly (UNGA)...
by Harris Institute | Dec 11, 2015 | Climate Change, Environmental Law, Foreign Relations Law, Human Rights, Negotiations, Uncategorized, United Nations
By: Hari Osofsky Expectancy has dominated the last two days as people awaited each day’s new draft of the agreement. Because the negotiations are taking place behind closed doors, people use relationships to learn ever-evolving information about the state of...
by Harris Institute | Dec 9, 2015 | Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, The International Criminal Court, Uncategorized
By: Leila Nadya Sadat On November 20-22, 2015, I was in Nuremberg, Germany, at a superb series of events relating to or commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg trial. I was asked to give the opening address on the 20th itself, in Courtroom 600, 70 years to...
by Harris Institute | Dec 8, 2015 | Climate Change, Environmental Law, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations Law, Human Rights, Negotiations, United Nations
By: Hari Osofsky I appreciate the opportunity to guest blog with Opinio Juris while at the Paris climate change negotiations this week. I will aim in my blogs to complement Dan Bodansky’s excellent assessment of the negotiations among state parties by examining the...
