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To Look Forward from Looking Back — Revisiting the Legal Heritage of the ICTY

To Look Forward from Looking Back — Revisiting the Legal Heritage of the ICTY

By: Yuan Fang The symposium on the Role of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in Understanding the War and Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina was held on Friday, October 4, 2019 at Washington University School of Law. This event was...

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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...

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The 13th International Humanitarian Law Roundtable: The Third Wave – Adapting Modern ICL to 21st Century Realities

The 13th International Humanitarian Law Roundtable: The Third Wave – Adapting Modern ICL to 21st Century Realities

By: Megan Ferguson & Madaline George The 13th International Humanitarian Law Roundtable (previously Dialogs) was held in Chautauqua, New York, from Sunday, August 25, through Tuesday, August 27. This year’s theme was The Third Wave – Adapting Modern ICL to 21st...

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