Coalition for International Criminal Justice

NGOs can be important partners in atrocity documentation: cicj.eu/statement-6 urges them to adhere to best interviewing practices, legal analysis and information security, and refrain from seeing documentation as a monetary or political commodity. #UniversalJurisdiction

At #TOAEP's toaep.org/pbs: 'Three Pivotal Norwegian Cases on Sámi Rights' (H.S. Lile), 'Towards an International Crime of Ecocide' (D. Bertram), 'Sudanese Despair and International Failure, 2003–2024: No Way Out?' (J.J. Savelsberg). #Islam_Accountability #Ecocide #ASP23

We congratulate CICJ Steering Group member Dr. Song on this award!

Prof. David Luban receives the 2022 M.C. Bassiouni Justice Award for his remarkable scholarship over 45 years: cilrap.org/luban. My policy brief ‘Peace and Reconciliation Diplomacy Challenged by Religious Hatred, Dissimulation and Denial’: toaep.org/pbs-pdf/149-be…. #CILRAP

'Lady Justice Blindfolded, Not ICC States Parties’: cicj.eu/statement-5/ invites States Parties to govern the @IntlCrimCourt more incisively by “asking the Court the right questions, about important issues, at the right time”, using domestic judicial-administration experts.

States Parties of the #ICC should establish a Special Working Group on Ecocide at the 2024 Assembly Session, to include #ecocide in the Statute: the #ICC must be able to address serious environmental harm threatening humankind or the planet (cicj.eu/statement-4/). #ASP22

'Interviewing and Interrogation: A Review of Research and Practice Since World War II' (585 pp., 52 authors, 24 chapters, toaep.org/ps-pdf/42-inte…): how non-coercive techniques yield better information elicitation. Witness evidence remains crucial. #TOAEP #Torture #Interrogation

My response categorically refutes all allegations made against me and WIGJ today by the Peace, Justice and Security Foundation: legal-tools.org/doc/0756ci/ The justice sector needs serious and discerning people, not noise and chaos.

‘Religion, Hateful Expression and Violence’ (1,146 pp.), one-click access: toaep.org/ps-pdf/41-berg… (Ch. 1: legal-tools.org/doc/x0h6cl/). Case studies, normative frameworks, motivations, and measures available: time to supplement the human rights approach. #HateSpeech #TOAEP #CILRAP

@_CICJ_ Statement 3 (cicj.eu/statement-3/) calls on France and UK to accept #ICC jurisdiction over #aggression, States Parties to rescind Art. 15bis(5), #Ukraine to ratify the Statute, and #UNSC permanent members not to betray the Charter’s collective security provisions.

The ICC Legal Tools Database (LTD) receives the 2023 Jus Gentium Research Award from the American Society of International Law (legal-tools.org)! Thanks go to #CILRAP Fellows, LTD partners, the European Commission and other contributors to this #DigitalPublicGood. Iustitia est.

#Lexsitus 2.0.: 2,300-page commentary (ICC Statute and RPE) also in Arabic and French; subtitles to 234 lectures in Arabic, French and Persian; and the digest on elements of crime in Arabic, French and Spanish (cilrap-lexsitus.org). #DigitalPublicGood for laptop and PC users.

‘Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law: Legally-Protected Interests’ (co-edited with E.J. Buis and Song Tianying, 390 pp.): toaep.org/ps-pdf/36-berg…. And new symposium of all three volumes in the series: cilrap.org/philosophical-…. #PFICL #TOAEP #DigitalPublicGood