I’m really torn over a blogosphere initiative that has started to take off over the past 24 hours. It’s called Silence is the Enemy. It was launched yesterday on a blog called The Intersection (it’s worth reading the full post), where Sheril Kirshenbaum describes her personal experiences, announces the initiative to “to help a generation […]
Archives for June 2009
Lawyer of the Day Prize goes to . . .
June 1, 2009 by Leave a Comment
. . . Carine Bapita, legal representative for victims at the ICC. Why? Her statements in the admissibility hearing in Katanga today shows she has the Defense strategy all mapped out (so much so, Defense lawyer David Hooper himself acknowledged it). I don’t have the transcript yet, but to paraphrase Bapita: The admissibility challenge is […]
Who should judge the Katanga case?
June 1, 2009 by 5 Comments
** I’m twittering the hearing at: http://twitter.com/bechamilton for those who can’t catch the live webcast** There is a hearing at the ICC this morning which may seem to be on an obscure legal point to the general public, but is actually of significance to the global system of justice established by the Rome Statute. The […]
Questions for the advocacy community: Q3 – Sam Bell
Q3 – What are the costs/benefits of single issue advocacy? Does the focus on a single issue crowd out the potential to focus on structural changes that would be required to deal with both the single issue and other related issues? Sam Bell: It seems to me that policy-making is a “single-issue”* enterprise. Candidates campaign […]