by Harris Institute | Feb 29, 2016 | Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, Foreign Affairs, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Rule of Law
By: Neil Schoenherr (Originally posted on The Source) President Barack Obama this week announced his intention to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The decision to open the facility in the first place was a bad idea in theory, made even worse in...
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 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 | Jun 19, 2015 | Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, Uncategorized, United Nations
By: Madaline George I recently spent two weeks in Geneva, Switzerland to observe the United Nations International Law Commission discuss the first report on crimes against humanity. This was a milestone moment, as the Harris Institute has been working on the drafting...
by Harris Institute | Jan 26, 2015 | Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, International Criminal Law
By: Leila Nadya Sadat, January 26, 2015 (Originally posted on International Criminal Justice Toady, an ABA-ICC Project) Although the international community has made significant progress with respect to the prevention and prosecution of international atrocity...
