International criminal law was established to hold individuals accountable for heinous crimes such as genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The International Criminal Court (ICC) and ad ...

On September 2, 2020, US Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo announced United States sanctions of ICC officials and its prosecutor Ms. Fatou Bensouda. Based on this sanction, their possible assets in the US ...

When a Nigerian judge ruled in 2005 that Shell’s practice of gas flaring in the Niger Delta was a violation of citizens’ constitutional rights to life and dignity, Nnimmo Bassey, a local environmental ...

What should be done about Donald Trump and the U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific Oceans? Should we really be quibbling about who ordered the second strike on the survivors of the boat ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The following is a guest post by John B. Bellinger III, adjunct senior fellow for ...

The International Criminal Court prosecutes individuals under international law. The International Criminal Court pushed back against sanctions levied by President Donald Trump, saying Friday the move ...

Among the greatest achievements of the United Nations is the development of a body of international law, which is central to promoting economic and social development, as well as to advancing ...

When the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded earlier this month that Israel’s war on Gaza amounts to a genocide, it was not alone. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, ...

Mark Chadwick has previously received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council As I argue in a new book, modern international criminal law is actually of a much older lineage, and is ...

The International Criminal Court was created in 1998 with an ostensibly global remit, but the focus of its work has long been much narrower. To date, all 44 people indicted by the court have been ...

We have placed 105 students in global internships and externships during the past five years, on five continents and in 41 countries. Very few schools can match our numbers. Our International Law ...