podcast episodes – asymmetrical haircuts

Justice Update – The Assembly of States Parties begins

We preview the hot topics to be addressed at the ICC annual meeting.

Episode 88 – Prosecuting military actions with Carolyn Edgerton

We discuss how to prove and prosecute alleged war crimes committed during military campaigns in a court of law.

Justice Update – ITLOS tackles climate change – The Eco Files

The latest in our Eco Files series examines the issue of climate change at the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea.

Justice Update – Israel, Hamas and the laws of war

We explore how International Humanitarian Law can be applied to the current Israel Hamas conflict.

Episode 87 – Venezuela sequel with Dalila Seoane and Ignacio Jovtis

Dalila Seoane and Ignacio Jovtis tell us about the evidence they found of crimes against humanity in Venezuela and how it was possible to prosecute it in Argentina under the principle of universal jurisdiction

Justice Update – Israel Palestine and International Law

What are the limitations of international law institutions during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

Episode 86 – Portraits of Women in International Law with Immi Tallgren

We speak with Immi Tallgren about her book ‘Portraits of Women in International Law’.

Episode 85 – Enforced Disappearance ‘firsts’ with Vony Rambolamanana and Ana Srovin Coralli

With Ana Srovin Coralli and Vony Rambolamanana we discuss how a Belarusian man who confessed and was tried for enforced disappearances was then acquitted in Switzerland.

Episode 84 – Cybercrimes as war crimes with Lindsay Freeman

Are Russian hacking attacks on Ukraine infrastructure war crimes and could they be charged at the ICC? Lindsay Freeman talks us through the issues.

Episode 83 – Armenia wages ‘lawfare’ with Melanie O’Brien

Dr. Melanie O’Brien discusses Armenia’s judicial moves to stop alleged genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Episode 82 – Finally, Venezuela with Marta Valiñas and Joanna Frivet

Marta Valinas and Joanna Frivet on documenting crimes against humanity in Venezuela and analyse how the ICC is moving forward

Justice Update – Landmark Lundin trial

A rare case of corporate responsibility for war crimes in Sudan, prosecuted in Sweden against Lundin oil executives.

Summer Collection 2023 – Uncomfortable Justice with Lisa Clifford

Filmmaker Lisa Clifford on the trial of Germain Katanga

Summer Collection 2023 – War Reporting with Danny Kemp

Journalist Danny Kemp on witnessing war crimes in Ukraine

Summer Collection 2023 – Canada’s Reckoning with Ry Moran, Fannie Lafontaine, Karine Duhamel and Andrew Woolford

Experts from Canada discuss the state’s responsibility for crimes against humanity against indigenous children and the efforts to find the truth.

The Summer Collection 2023 – Justice Via the Backdoor with Kevin Jon Heller

How can the ICC have jurisdiction over wr crimes that happen in places that are not members of the court? Kevin Jon Heller explains in this re-run.

Justice Update – Investigating Aggression in Ukraine

What’s the new international centre for the prosecution of the crime of aggression in Ukraine? Who’s behind it? What role will the US play?

Justice Update – Climate Activists – The Eco Files

Who are the activists behind the climate cases we are covering? What motivates them?

Justice Update – Syria Missing and Tortured

New paths to accountability for torture victims and families of the disappeared in Syria.

Episode 81 – Ljubljana Legal Lobbying with Vaios Koutroulis and Raquel Saveedra

A new treaty – MLA – has been agreed to get states to investigate and try alleged war criminals

Justice Update – Ecocide at the ICC – The Eco Files

Ecocide is a concept that has been brought into sharp focus with the destruction of the dam in Ukraine. What is it and how might it work at the ICC?

Allan Ngari Quote: It's not just a legal issue, it's an emotional issue

Episode 80 – Another BRIC(S) in the Wall with Hannah Woolaver and Allan Ngari

The potential visit by Russian president Putin to South Africa is reviving the debates about ICC member states arrest obligations, and ambivalent attitudes across Africa to the invasion of Ukraine.

Episode 79 – Kabuga’s Alternative Procedure with Lucy Gaynor

What next for Felicien Kabuga, unfit to stand trial for the Rwandan genocide, but possibly facing an alternative procedure never before heard of in international criminal tribunals.

Justice Update – Septuagenarian Serbian Spies

The final Hague trial dealing the wars in the former Yugoslavia.

Justice Update – Vanuatu at the ICJ – The Eco Files

What is Vanuatu asking at the ICJ about states obligations to prevent climate change? Margaretha Wewerincke-Singh explains.

Episode 78 – Ukraine’s Taken Children with Yulia Ioffe and Nathaniel Raymond

Janet and Stephanie talk about the methods used by the Russian government for the transfer of Ukrainian children to the Russian Federation and what legal classifications could apply with international law scholar Yulia Ioffe and war crimes investigator Nathaniel Raymond

Episode 77 – Darfur Roots with Rebecca Hamilton and Tajedin Abdallah Adam

Rebecca Hamilton and Tajedin Abdalla Adam come on the podcast to explain what is going on in Sudan and Darfur and how the International Criminal Court might come into play

Justice Update – Universal Jurisdiction

Universal Jurisdiction cases for atrocity crimes – are they the new norm?

In Memoriam: Benjamin B. Ferencz

This week the international justice community has been brought together in mourning by the passing of Benjamin Ferencz. Ferencz served as the chief prosecutor for the United States Army during the Einsatzgruppen trial, one of twelve trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity part of the Nuremberg Trials. Later in his career Ferencz became a champion for the establishment […]

Justice Connection – Kosovo Timewarp

Former Kosovo president is on trial in The Hague – Janet and Stephanie outline the case

Introducing: The War Criminals Book Club

In the first episode of our Patreon bonus series, the ‘War Criminals Book Club’ with Molly Quell, we read To Catch a Dictator by Reed Brody

Justice Update – Putin and The Hague

An ICC arrest warrant for Russia’s Vladimir Putin for war crimes in Ukraine – quick reactions.

Episode 76 – Virtual Legal Reality with Sarah Zarmsky, Brittan Heller and Shirin Anlen

Brittan Heller, Shirin Anlen, Sarah Zarmsky discuss opportunities and challenges of digital reconstructions in international courts

Justice Update – Migrant traffickers on trial in Europe

How come two Eritrean men are on trial in Italy and the Netherlands connected to human trafficking in Libya? With Gerben Wilbrink for the Dutch prosecution, Giorgia Righi for the Italians, and Nicole Samson for an ICC perspective.

Justice Update – Communications at the ICC

Janet and Stephanie discuss the whys and wherefores of NGO communications to the ICC, with Andreas Schüller

Episode 75 – Failures of Justice with Kate Gibson and Barbora Hola

Kate Gibson and Barbora Hola explain why eight men acquitted by the ICTR are stuck in Niger and why international justice is failing them

Episode 74 – Interventions for Aggression with Christian Wenaweser

Liechtenstein Ambassador at the UN Christian Wenaweser talk about the prosecution of the crime of aggression against Ukraine

Episode 73 – What About U.S.? with Beth van Schaack

Beth van Schaack on renewed US support to the ICC, crime of aggression in Ukraine and possible accountability in Liberia, Ethiopia, El Salvador

Episode 72 – Sex Crimes Education with Valerie Oosterveld and Kim-Thuy Seelinger

Conflict related sexual violence and gendered crimes – the basics – discussed by Professors Valerie Oosterveld and Kim-Thuy Seelinger

Justice Update – Palestine and Israel at the ICJ

What to expect from the ICJ on Israeli occupation in Palestine, with Mike Becker and Eliav Lieblich

Justice Update – Ongwen ICC Appeal Reactions

Janet and Stephanie assemble a panoply of lawyers, activists and on-the-ground observers to talk about the Ongwen appeals decision at the ICC

Episode 71 – Catching Dictators with Reed Brody

25 years after the Pinochet trial, listen back to Reed Brody on how he got into ‘Catching Dictators’ and -with victims – got justice for Chadian Hissène Habré

Episode 70 – Ukrainian War Crimes Trials with Ukrainian Judges

Ukrainian judges talk about how the national judiciary is coping with trying war crimes while at war

Episode 69 – International Humanitarian Law with Alphons Orie

Judge Alphons Orie on international humanitarian law as it meets international criminal tribunals

Episode 68 – Reverberations of Hawija with Lauren Gould and Machiko Kanetake

Lauren Gould and Machiko Kanetake discuss the consequences of the Dutch airstrike on Hawija Iraq.

Justice Update – Kenya Crimes against Humanity

How will Kenya prosecute post electoral crimes against humanity committed in 2017? Kathy Roberts and Maxine Marcus explain

Justice Update – The Sea The Sea with Molly Quell and Douglas Guilfoyle

Molly Quell and Douglas Guilfoyle explain the law of the sea and how ITLOS works and the Chagos dispute

Episode 67 – Staging an ICJ intervention with Juliette McIntyre

Self-professed ICJ procedure wonk Juliette McIntyre of the University of South Australia on the slew of interventions in the Ukraine Russia genocide case at the ICJ

Episode 66 – Documenting War Crimes with Anya Neistat and Eva Buzo

Anya Neistat and Eva Buzo discuss dangers of over-documentation and best practices in contexts like Rohingya refugee camp Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and Ukraine.

Episode 65 – Deadly Journalism with Almudena Bernabeu

Will accountability for the targeting and killing of journalists ever be possible? We discuss with Almudena Bernabeu.

Episode 64 – Track and Trace with Serge Brammertz

UNMICT Prosecutor Serge Brammertz explains how they track fugitives alleged to be behind the Rwanda genocide.

Episode 63 – Wild Things with Olivia Swaak Goldman

Olivia Swaak Goldman talk about organised wildlife crime and how to prosecute it.

Episode 62 – Black and White, Chagos at the ICJ with Philippe Sands

Philippe Sands on what the Chagos legal battle tells us about race and international law.

Episode 61 – The Trouble with the Cambodia Tribunal with Megan Hirst

Megan Hirst tells Janet and Stephanie why she resiged from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), how victims’ representation should work and some pros and cons of hybrid tribunals.

Justice Update – Awful Anniversaries

The latest on Myanmar Syria and Ukraine accountability.

The Summer Collection 2022 – Why be a Watchdog with Taegin Reisman and Jennifer Easterday (repeat)

Taegin Reisman and Jennifer Easterday on why should we monitor atrocity crimes trials

The Summer Collection 2022 – Bringing up the Bodies (repeat)

How should we investigate mass graves? Kathryne Bomberger from the ICMP and the UN’s Agnes Callamard join us with a zoom audience to discuss the challenges facing states and victims’ families.

The Summer Collection 2022 – Social Media on Trial with Yvonne McDermott Rees and Karolina Aksamitowska (repeat)

How does evidence from social media lead to a war crimes conviction in Europe? Yvonne McDermott Rees and Karolina Aksamitowska tell us what’s been changing.

The Summer Collection 2022 – Drone Wars with Jessica Dorsey and Aditi Gupta (repeat)

Jessica Dorsey and Aditi Gupta discuss the lack of transparent rules and secrecy of states in deploying armed drones.

Justice Update – Campaign for a new International Anti-Corruption Court

How to set up a new court – an International Anti-Corruption Court. With Maia Groff and Richard Goldstone.

Justice Update – Four Ways to Accountability in Ukraine

Accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine with Mykola Gnatovskyy, Kateryna Busol, and Howard Morrison: local prosecution, ICC, a potential new tribunal, and universal jurisdiction.

ICC 20th Anniversary with the Coalition for the International Criminal Court

Why do states sign up to the ICC and why not? 20 years down the line, Coalition for the International Criminal Court members talk us through Ukraine Philippines and more.

Episode 60 – Libya and the real EU refugee crisis with Sally Hayden and Marwa Mohamed

Journalist Sally Hayden and Libya human rights defender Marwa Mohamed talk refugee detention centres and crimes against humanity in Libya.

Episode 59 – When Your Beat Becomes a War Zone with Oksana Kovalenko

Ukrainian journalist Oksana Kovalenko explains how her work has changed during war, against the reality of air raids and petrol shortages.

Episode 58 – War reporting with Danny Kemp

Journalist Danny Kemp recalls finding the dead bodies in Bucha, and discusses the role journalists are playing in reporting war crimes in Ukraine.

Episode 57- International Justice Start-Up Junkie with Klaus Rackwitz

Klaus Rackwitz, a self-confessed start-up junkie, looks back at the beginning of the ICC and the Nuremberg legacy in relation to Ukraine.

Justice Update – Prison Life in North Korea

Torture and other crimes amounting to crimes against humanity are being committed in the North Korean penal system, says the NGO Korea Future which documents the alleged abuses

Justice Update – First Darfur trial at the ICC

Emma DiNapoli discusses the start of first Darfur trial at the ICC.

Episode 56 – Believing in Guatemalan Women with Brisna Caxaj and Marlies Stappers

How did Guatemalan indigenous women achieve success in a rape case against former paramilitaries with Marlies Stappers and Brisna Caxaj

Justice Update – Ukraine: All Roads Lead to the Hague

The Hague will be the focus for many people when it comes to accountability. At the International Court of Justice, Ukraine is asking for provisional measures against Russia – to stop the invasion – on the basis that Russia is misusing the genocide convention. Dr Melanie O’Brien of the University of Western Australia, fills us in on how that’s possible […]