Dr Benjamin Thorne

My book, The Figure of the Witness in International Criminal Tribunals Memory, Atrocities and Transitional Justice, is now available in paperback - tinyurl.com/wzcjestp

I'm very pleased to invite academic international lawyers and practitioners to join an exciting public lecture by Judge Howard Morrison, the former UK Judge to @IntlCrimCourt, on Dec 10 in central London. Register here to join the event @IALS_law: eventbrite.co.uk/e/internationa…

Our latest superb special issue: REMEMBERING ACTIVISM Explorations in the Memory-Activism Nexus Edited by @socmerrill and Ann Rigney journals.sagepub.com/toc/mssa/17/5

A review hearing in the case of Prosecutor v. Gérard #Ntakirutimana will take place from 18 November at 9:30 EAT / 07:30 CET in the #IRMCT Arusha branch courtroom. Consult the schedule and follow the streaming with a 30-minute delay at the link bellow👇 t.ly/yTQnm

"This work was done by Rwandans, in #Rwanda." @BrownUniversity report on how the strength of Rwanda's healthcare system enabled it to contain #Marburg in only a few weeks. #RwOT sph.brown.edu/news/2024-11-1…

Like many others have done already, I will be leaving this increasingly toxic space. If you would like to, you can find me here - @benjaminthorne.bsky.social

Yesterday she described herself as a chronicler of genocide. While this is definitely one of her great roles, I think she is more than that. She is showing us how to engage with a colonial, racist and warmongering international law in anticolonial, antiracist and peaceful ways

In celebration of @FranceskAlbs recent standing ovations at both LSE and SOAS, let me highlight the main contributions her Reports have made to the way we understand the genocide of the Palestnian people in Gaza 🧵

On 20th November, Dr @benjamin_thorne will participate in a workshop at the University of Sussex on the theme of how to achieve justice during and after conflict, aiming to bring together academic and practical perspectives from various disciplines.

.@bntmayer appears on Sky News to discuss what a successful COP29 summit would look like as the conference gets underway in Baku, Azerbaijan, today.

Great opportunity to receive a full (home) funded Ph.D. scholarship to study Criminology @UniRDG_Law. jobs.ac.uk/job/DKN472/phd… #criminology #britishcriminology

I really don’t generally make Holocaust comparisons. But it is impossible not to when those justifying the genocide of Palestinians use it to decry a hooligan brawl. This thread is the result of me tweeting this earlier and feeling frustrated at having to bring the Holocaust up x.com/alonso_gd/stat…

PhD Studentship in Criminology at University of Reading jobs.ac.uk/job/DKN472/phd…

What happened in Amsterdam is obviously a mess, but it is a (offensive) gross misrepresentation to call it a "pogrom" against Jews. It was football hooliganism exacerbated by geopolitical tensions.

Another great arts review opportunity 👇 A variety of scholarly perspectives could work here, including those of a law scholar who has never engaged with dance before, but would like to do so now! If that could be you, the best way to contact Elena (L&H Arts Editor) is by email.

#OTD in 1994: 30 years ago, the #UN created the #ICTR. Its last chief #prosecutor reflected that, crucially, it “established the truth of what occurred”. I spoke to @justiceinfonet about the intricacies & challenges of narrating legal & historical truths in the ICTR’s #trials

I am delighted to participate in the launch of this Transitional Justice and Human Rights Network with @drcolleenmurphy @UIllinoisLaw and @NMavronicola @unibirmingham Deadline for abstracts extended! 👇 For more information: blog.bham.ac.uk/lawresearch/20…

Just Launched: Our 11th Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition, seeking to support small groups of scholars, enabling one or more short periods of face-to-face joint group work such as workshops, working-in-pairs, or short academic visits. isrf.org/funding-opport…

The call for papers for our @BIICL / @legalscholars International Law Section workshop on ‘Soft Law in International Law’ is out now. Do send us your abstracts by 16 December 2024. biicl.org/newsitems/1653…

@bjelce Not Nuremberg—Histories of Alternative Criminalization Paradigms, 1945–2021: An Introduction James Mark, Phil Clark @philclark79 DOI: doi.org/10.1353/hum.20…