You can read the full article, explaining my relationship to this topic, over at The Washington Post. Here I’d like to draw attention to the challenges for the #metoo movement going forward: ….I study large-scale advocacy movements. I’ve led them, observed them, written about them. Each is a product of its time and place, so […]
Archives for December 2017
State-Enabled Crimes
December 16, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Rebecca Hamilton, State-Enabled Crimes, 41 (2) Yale J. Intl. L. 102 (2016) International crimes are committed by individuals, but many – from genocide in Rwanda to torture at Abu Ghraib – would not have occurred without the integral role played by the State. This dual contribution, of individual and State, is intrinsic to the commission of […]
The ICC’s Exit Problem
December 16, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Rebecca J. Hamilton, The ICC’s Exit Problem, 47 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 1 (2014) The International Criminal Court (ICC) was never meant to supplant the domestic prosecution of international crimes. And yet the Court is now entering its second decade of operations in four African nations, with no plan for exit in sight. This […]
The ICJ’s Genocide Judgment – Bosnia v. Serbia
December 16, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Richard J. Goldstone & Rebecca J. Hamilton, Bosnia v. Serbia: Lessons from the Encounter of the International Court of Justice with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, 21 Leiden J. Int’l L. 95 (2008) (peer reviewed). This article uses the recent judgment of the ICJ in Bosnia v. Serbia to highlight the potential […]
