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Laura Baron-Menodza explains how the ICC can tackle environmental crimes and how a new policy should radically shift how the court works. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.asymmetricalhai...

The big trial ends at the Kosovo Chambers and an opportunity to ask - has it been worth it. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://w...

With Jeanne Sulzer we discuss universal jurisdiction in France, against individuals and corporations, such as the Lumbala case and LaFarge case. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.asymmetr...

What are rights and wrongs of putting very old people on trial for atrocity crimes? With Caroline Davidson of Williamette University. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you lik...

Argentina is the go-to spot for Universal Jurisdiction - why? If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/su...

Corporate crime cases in Latin America - why are they leading the field? If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.asymmetricalhair...

Gissou Nia guides us through accountability for violence agianst protestors in Iran. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.asym...

We discuss the Genocide case at the ICJ brought by Gambia against Myanmar on behalf of the Rohingya. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: ...

We sat down with torture survivors from Kenya, Venezuela and Ukraine to ask them what their experience engaging with the International Criminal Court and seeking justice is. Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.asy...

Maduro kidnapped by the US - what are the implications for accountability for human rights violations in Venezuela and for peace and security in Latin America. With Brian Finucane and Ignacio Jovtis. 1st para - who, talking about what, and why it’s important. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www....

This one is us talking about what's been going on at the International Criminal Court. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.as...

In this episode, we discuss the Dutch trial for an Eritrean alleged human trafficker accused of leading an organisation in Libya. Mirjam van Reisen tells us more about it. And we explore how the ICC cooperate with states on investigations. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmet...

Why do people plead guilty at an international tribunal? And is it common for women to be war criminals? Olivera Simic, examines former Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmet...

With Danya Chaikel of FIDH we discuss the ICC annual meeting and sanctions and other challenges. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: http...

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. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.a...

What do we know now about the illegal transfer of children from Ukraine to Russia and what kind of crime might it be? We chat to Thordis Gylfadottir of the Council of Europe. If you found this interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://ww...

What are the realistic avenues to accountability especially for the women of Afghanistan. Shaharzad Akbar dicusses all the current possibilities. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/...

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. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angl...

This week's Justice Update is all about the new Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression - created specifically to hold the Russian Federation to account for its war of aggression in Ukraine. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter:...

This Bonus Episode introduces you to our Patreon feed, where every month we do a bonus episode of the War Criminals Book Club. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what...

Juliette McIntyre explains what's happening at the International Court of Justice and what she'll be looking out for in upcoming genocide cases. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ ...

In this episode of our Climate series, we look at Mar Menor, the first ecosystem in Europe to gain legal personhood. A unique place for several reasons, Mar Meno is now also the first natural entity to be represented at the European Court of Human Rights by our guest Monica Feria-Tinta, counsel for Mar Menor and a barrister practising in public international law and international arbitration at Twenty Essex Chambers in the UK. Monica told us why the case of Mar Menor is important and how it rel...

A complex legal shuffle is going on in The Hague currently, where the former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte is being held at the International Criminal Court Detention Unit. Duterte faces potential charges related to a campaign against drugs sellers buyers and users in which at least 7,000 Filipinos were killed. Why is it complex? Well, any ICC case […]

In this episode we explore the challenges of digital evidence and how international courts are keeping pace with Sarah Zarmsky. If this is interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like ...