Episodes

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 […]

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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