Author: Ben Wallace
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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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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.
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War crimes investigations
It was wonderful to have more than “sound bite” time to help explain war crimes investigations in Ukraine on CNN. Thanks to anchor Jessica Dean and the CNN team for the preparation they put into this segment.
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What is a war crime?
Thanks to NBC News Now for the chance to give a pretty lengthy explainer on what war crimes are and how to prosecute them. While the focus was on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we also had the chance to touch on the ICC’s as-yet …
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How could Russia’s Putin be prosecuted for war crimes in Ukraine?
The surge of attention to accountability for war crimes in Ukraine is leading journalists to work on translating the legalese of international criminal law for a mainstream audience. I spoke to Reuters for this explainer of the nuts and bolts of a war crimes prosecution.