Author: Ben Wallace
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The Battle for Sudan
I was honored to join in conversation with Suliman Baldo and Quscondy Abdulshafi to discuss the situation in Sudan. My gratitude also to Just Security podcast host, Paras Shah, for pulling the three of us together, and editing our long discussion down to a manageable …
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Books to Help Understand Sudan
Humbled to see Fighting for Darfur recommended to NYT readers, over a decade after I wrote it. I just wish its lessons weren’t still so painfully relevant: “And for a fair-minded but critical look at the foreign response to the catastrophic war in Darfur at …
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Crimes Against Humanity in Ukraine
I spoke with CNN’s Jim Acosta about the U.S. government’s determination regarding Russian crimes against humanity in Ukraine and the path forward for accountability.
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Facebook Beware
In its public-facing quarterly financial reports, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, labels all countries in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East as the “Rest of World.” Although one-third of Facebook’s daily active users, 638 million people, live in the “Rest …
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Platform-Enabled Crimes
B.C. L. Rev (2022). Online intermediaries are omnipresent. Each day, across the globe, the corporations that run these platforms execute policies and practices that serve their profit model, typically by sustaining user engagement. Sometimes, these seemingly banal business activities enable principal perpetrators to commit crimes; …
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Governing the Global Public Square
Harv. Int’l L. J. (2021). Social media platforms are the public square of our era – a reality that has been entrenched by the widespread closure of physical public spaces in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. And this online space is global in nature, with …
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User-Generated Evidence
Rebecca Hamilton, User-Generated Evidence, Col. J. Transnat’l L. (2018)
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Justice for Ukraine
I had the chance to speak frankly about the limits of international criminal law for this article on justice in Ukraine. “Ukraine may be the best-case scenario for what international criminal accountability can offer … And yet, for many survivors it may still not be …
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Ukraine’s Push to Prosecute Aggression: Implications for Immunity Ratione Personae and the Crime of Aggression
Russia has not – and will not – provide such consent. If an aggression indictment is to be formally issued, it will need to come through a newly created tribunal. Just a week after Russia’s February 24 invasion, Chatham House convened a high-profile declaration to …
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Crowdsourcing Digital War Crimes Evidence
Thanks to the Washington Lawyer magazine for covering my work on Crowdsourcing Digital War Crimes Evidence. Unfortunately the topic is all too timely. Read the magazine article here &/or to check out my scholarship in this area take a look at User-Generated Evidence.