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Life And Death At the ICC

Libya has again asserted its right to try its own defendants and our favorite prosecutor has again put his foot in it, discussing the possibility of a national Libyan mechanism with the international media, to the point it appeared to … Continue reading

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“Do you know right from wrong?”

This week Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi was killed in Libya, by civilian protesters, putting and end to any remaining conflict about Libyan leadership, the search for Gaddafi, and inadvertently, the legitimacy of the NATO intervention or those of the UN … Continue reading

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Postcoloniality and Justice

One of the key charges against international justice interventions, particularly in Africa, has been that of a re-colonization of Africans through political and administrative structures designed to rob sovereignty and physical agency as well as decision-making from African states and … Continue reading

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Whose Justice?

I have been reading and mulling over Rosemary Nagy’s 2008 article in Third World Quarterly, entitled “Transitional Justice as Global Project: critical reflections” and recently happened to see Patrick Wegner’s post on Justice on Conflict on the “ICC Complementarity, Positive … Continue reading

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But Was it Even Legal? Does Law Matter?

Following on from my previous post, I have to call attention to Geert-Jan Knoops' piece on the legality, morality and normative problematics of the killing of Osama bin Laden in Radio Netherlands World Wide . In this article, Knoops states … Continue reading

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