Category: International Law
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The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Guilty of War Crimes: The False Positives Scandal and Doctrine of Superior Responsibility in International Criminal Law
By Carolina Pardo — The transitional justice body in Colombia, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, or the JEP, found that between 2002 and 2008, the Colombian military murdered at least 6,402 civilians and passed them off as armed insurgents. Being…
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The Price of Snitching: Holding Informers Liable in Domestic Contexts
By Elaine Gao — An informer network was the modus operandi of totalitarian states in the 20th century, but its legacy presents a legal challenge that remains unresolved. During World War II, the Gestapo relied on more than 100,000 informants…
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Indefinite Inaction: Clarifying Article 17 and the ICC’s Principle of Complementarity After the 2009 Guinea Massacre Trial
By Erin William — The right to publicly assemble and protest is a key element of democracies worldwide. For civilians living under democratic governments, losing these rights is inconceivable. The erasure of freedom of speech creates fertile ground for human…
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Reframing Refuge From Persecution: The Right to a Stable Climate
By Sanjana Kumar — The climate crisis has been described internationally as “the greatest human rights challenge of the 21st century.” Despite this, there has been great difficulty in legally recognizing it as such. This article focuses on existing variability…
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From Financing to Frontlines: Interpreting Funds in the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism
By Katherine Lee — According to international law, states may supply terrorists with arms but not artwork, grenades but not gold, and dynamite but not diamonds. This interpretation in the International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s most recent ruling draws a…
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Non-Refoulement: Reality or Reverie?
By Ritika Asher – The Central Mediterranean route is the deadliest migration route, with an estimated 24,000 deaths and disappearances since 2014. This route gained prominence in the mid-1990s, as thousands left the Northern coast of Africa in the hopes…
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Aiding and Abetting Human Rights Abuse: Interpreting Nestle’s Focus Test and the Scope of Corporate Liability
By Daniel Zayas — From the banana plantations of Colombia to the cocoa farms of the Ivory Coast to the natural gas fields of Indonesia, U.S.-based corporations routinely turn a blind eye to human rights violations, ranging from child slave…
