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Justice Update – ICC Under Pressure

With Danya Chaikel of FIDH we discuss the ICC annual meeting and sanctions and other challenges.
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Justice Update – Ukraine’s Special Tribunal in Practice

This week’s pod is on Ukraine’s Special Tribunal – from trials without the accused to who gets immunity to whether the new tribunal could be a bargaining chip in peace negotiations.
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Episode 147 – Afghanistan Accountability Avenues with Shaharzad Akbar

What are the realistic avenues to accountability especially for the women of Afghanistan. Shaharzad Akbar dicusses all the current possibilities.

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Episode 146 – When Is It A War? with Tamsin Phillipa Paige and Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg

With the last weeks of U.S. strikes on alleged drug dealer boats and saying they are in “a non-international armed conflict” with drug cartels, we ask ‘when is war’ and whether a state can just announce it is at war, with Tamsin Phillipa Paige and Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg.
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Summer Collection 2025 – Patreon Bonus: Enforced Disappearances in Mexico with Ana Srovin Coralli

We bring you one of our Patreon War Criminals Book Club bonus episodes: Ana Srovin Coralli joins to discuss the documentary Toshkua, by director Ludovic Bonleux and enforced disappearances of Central
American migrants in Mexico.
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Episode 138 – Breaking the Law with Samuel Moyn

Samuel Moyn on Israel and the US attacks on Iran in international law.
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Episode 126 – Law Will Tear U.S. Apart Again with Oona Hathaway

Janet and Steph sit down with Oona Hathaway to ask if international law as a concept is still relevant and if such a seeming crisis would tear down the idea of the rule of law or if it might sharpen minds and build a new different consensus

Episode 121 – United States Universal Jurisdiction with Carmen Cheung

Carmen Cheung talks the United States approach to atrocity crimes

Episode 120 – Guantanamo Bay and the 9/11 Trial with Alka Pradhan

We talk to Alka Pradhan about her firsthand insights into the ongoing legal proceedings at Guantanamo Bay and her outlook on the 9/11 trial.

Episode 116 – The Geneva Conventions on Trial with Gloria Gaggiola and Andrew Clapham

Can you put the Geneva Conventions on trial? We tried, with the help of the Geneva Academy, to explore why these 75 year old rules seem to be falling apart.

Episode 114 – A Tattered Star-Spangled Banner with Milena Sterio

It’s US presidential election time and we consider the american relationship to some of the big justice issues like Israel-Palestine and Ukraine, with Milena Sterio

Episode 111 – Claims Commissions 101 with Chiara Giorgetti

Chiara Giorgetti talks about the work, goal and legacy of Claims Commissions and how thys system can work in Ukraine.

Summer Collection – What about U.S.?

Stephanie and Janet sit down with Beth van Schaak to talk about the role of the United States in international criminal justice

Justice Update – ICC’s Khan Applies for Arrest Warrants Israel and Hamas

What just happened with the ICC application for arrest warrants in Israel Palestine? And what does it mean?

Justice Update – Gambians on trial, but not at home

Justice for victims of the Jammeh dictatorship in the Gambia is happening, but not in Banjul. We look at three universal jurisdiction cases.

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?

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

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.

Episode 53 – Understanding Nuremberg with Diane Marie Amann & Francine Hirsch

We discuss the myths and realities of Nuremberg with Diane Marie Amann and Francine Hirsch

Episode 51 – Drone Wars with Jessica Dorsey and Aditi Gupta

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

Justice Update – Afghanistan Victims in Limbo

What’s happening in Afghanistan to human rights defenders, and what’s happening at the ICC in their investigation into war crimes? Janet investigates

Episode 38 – Genocide Gap with Melanie O’Brien and Ewelina Ochab

Melanie O’Brien and Ewelina Ochab talk through the evidence of Uighur genocide in the western region of Xinjiang, denied by China. And states’ responses and responsibilities.

Justice Update – Are Preliminary Examinations at ICC working? (extended lockdown/holiday remix)

How is the ICC using its opportunity to keep states under tabs and push them to domestic prosecutions of war crimes? We talk to Patryk Labuda about the prosecutor not going ahead with allegations of UK war crimes in Iraq.

Justice Update – Myanmar and more

Fresh developments at both ICC and ICJ on Myanmar, in discussion with Priya Pillai. Plus US sanctions against the ICC prosecutor.

Episode 29 – The Activist Lawyer with Nadja Houben and Victor Fokke

Can one person make such a big impact on the world? Sir Nigel Rodley was an activist lawyer. We talk about a documentary inspiring audiences on human rights.

Justice Update – High Noon at the ICC

An Executive Order by US president Donald Trump threatens sanctions on investigators and more at the International Criminal Court

Episode 18 – Afghanistan and the U.S. war on terror with Katherine Gallagher

Katherine Gallagher has been arguing that the ICC should investigate alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. Her clients passed through Afghanistan and are currently held at Guantanamo Bay. The ICC investigation could target U.S. military personnel, as well as Afghan government forces and the Taliban.

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.

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