Justice Update – Dessert at the ASP

Janet and Stephanie wrap up the annual meeting of the International Criminal Court – the ASP – with help from Emma Bakkum of PILPG, who has been monitoring discussions about a new strategic review.

Justice Update – Dinner at the ASP

Janet and Stephanie catch up on the buzz around ecocide and environmental crimes

Justice Update – Lunch at the ASP

Stephanie and Janet talk about whether judges will allow the ICC prosecutor to open an investigation in Afghanistan, which could open the way to tackle CIA torture programmes.

Justice Update – Breakfast at the ASP

There’s plenty to cover at the ICC’s annual meeting. Janet and Stephanie recap the first day.

Episode 14 – ICC Con comes to town with Liz Evenson, Amal Nassar and Alix Vuillemin Grendel

To prepare for the the International Criminal Court’s assembly of state parties (ASP) Janet and Stephanie sit down with NGO representatives Liz Evenson, Amal Nasser and Alix Vuillemin Grendel to hear about the big issues at the ICC’s annual get-together

Episode 13 – Double Standards with Carla Ferstman

Janet and Stephanie explore the U.K.’s investigation into alleged war crimes committed in Iraq by British forces and the ICC probe into the same crimes with Carla Ferstman and hear from the UK’s director of service prosecutions Andrew Cayley

Episode 12 – Genocide and Gender with Akila Radhakrishnan

On the day of Gambia’s historic filing with the ICJ to ask Myanmar to ‘stop the genocide of the Rohingya’ Janet and Stephanie talk to Akila Radhakrishnan of the Global Justice Center

Justice Update – Congo, Ukraine and Russia

Janet and Stephanie catch up after Ntaganda sentence at the ICC and the World Court ruling it can look at the Ukraine versus Russia case

Episode 11 – The Attraction of the World Court with Priya Pillai

We’re taking a closer look at the kind of highly-charged cases the International Court of Justice has been getting more and more of.

Episode 10 – Sabine Nolke: Maple Leaf Diplomacy

We try to get the low down on who could be the next ICC prosecutor from the very diplomatic Sabine Nolke, chair of the committee looking for a new ICC prosecutor

Episode 9 – Superstar Lawyers with Melinda Taylor, Mylène Dimitri and Marie-Hélène Proulx

Janet and Stephanie talk fair trial rights with the three top female defence counsel at the ICC: Melinda Taylor, Mylène Dimitri and Marie-Hélène Proulx

Episode 8 – JJ Wangui lets victims speak

Janet goes AWOL and interviews another woman with an asymmetrical haircut. Kenyan journalist JJ Wangui who lets victims of sexual violence tell their stories

Justice Update – CAR II: Redacted

Stephanie and Janet talk through the ICC confirmation of charges hearing for the Central African Republic II case

Episode 7 – Justice via the backdoor with Kevin Jon Heller

One of our favourite journalist-friendly academics, Kevin Jon Heller, joins us to discuss both ICC jurisdiction and blockbuster legal dramas.

Justice Update – A busy week in court

Janet calls Stephanie to see what’s been going on with the Lebanon Tribunal, the Gbagbo case at the ICC and the a case about alleged Israeli war crimes in a Dutch court

Episode 6 – Dogs of War with Iva Vukusic

For our delve into paramilitaries and the former Yugoslavia, Iva and her research assistant Joy, took us on a walk in a cemetery in The Hague.

Justice Update – Back to School

We’re back from the break and introducing our new Justice Update format where Janet and Stephanie talk current developments in the courts

Justice Update – Cake and Courts

We take a short break from other reporting duties to talk about India versus Pakistan at the International Court of Justice and celebrate the first two weeks of having the Asymmetrical Haircuts podcast up and running.

Episode 5 – All the different ways of getting justice for MH17 with Marieke de Hoon

Marieke de Hoon talks us through all the different legal avenues for getting justice for the victims of flight MH17 shot down over Ukraine in 2014

Episode 4 – Perp Talk with Barbora Hola

We sit down with criminologist Barbora Hola to talk about perpetrators and life after sentencing at international courts

Episode 3 – Only human, judges at the ICC

There has been a lot of talk about judges at the ICC this year. We sit down to talk you through the different controversies and have insights from a former ICC judge.

Episode 2 – It’s not about the money, says Lorraine Smith van Lin

We speak with Lorainne Smith van Lin of Redress about reparations for victims at the ICC and why the process is taking so long

Episode 1 – Justice on the Cheap, with Celeste Hicks

We discuss the trial of former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre with journalist Celeste Hicks

Episode 0 – Sharon Stone & the Haircut of International Justice

Welcome to our podcast, in this introduction we explain who we are, what we want with the podcast and how we got our name