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2016
12
January
2021
Blog Post for OpinioJuris by Letta Tayler: Cryer’s Ninos
“Getting states to buy into international criminal law is like asking the Mafia to buy into RICO.” We were only five minutes into class and Rob Cryer, fueled by a 500-ml plastic bottle of Diet Coke, was in full swing. “States get the international law they want,” Cryer said, taking another swig. “Not the international […]
30
June
2020
JICJ 2020 Special Issue: Justice and Accountability for Sexual Violence in Conflict: Progress and Challenges in National Efforts to Address Impunity
The Antonio Cassese Initiative is excited to present the launch of a Special Issue of the Journal of International Criminal Justice on Justice and Accountability for Sexual Violence in Conflict: Progress and Challenges in National Efforts to Address Impunity. In Resolution 1888 (2009), the United Nations Security Council urged Member States to investigate and prosecute […]
25
February
2020
Training on prosecution and adjudication of international and transnational crimes in Tanzania
The Antonio Cassese Initiative, the Asser Institute, the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, and the African Institute of International Law (AIIL) are jointly organising a one-week seminar on the prosecution and adjudication of international and transnational crimes from 24 to 28 February 2020, in Arusha, Tanzania. This high-level seminar will be attended by participants carefully selected among prosecutors […]
28
May
2019
Book Launch and Panel Discussion: Economic Complicity With The Pinochet’s Dictatorship
On Wednesday 19 June 2019 from 13:15 – 14:30, the book: Complicidad económica con la dictadura chilena (Economic Complicity with The Pinochet’s Dictatorship) will be launched at Villa Moynier (Geneva). This event marks the launch in Geneva of the new book by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, UN Independent Expert on Debt and Human Rights, co-edited with Karinna […]
12
May
2019
2018 Journal of International Criminal Justice Prize – Blog Post by Talita de Souza Dias
I am humbled and honoured to be the recipient of the 2018 Journal of International Criminal Justice (JICJ) Prize. I am also thankful to the Cassese Foundation and the Editors of the Journal for this award. From my early studies on international criminal law to this very day, my work has always been inspired by […]
03
April
2019
Francophone Seminar in International and Transnational Criminal Law
The Antonio Cassese Initiative is partnering with the Asser Institute and the International Nuremberg Principles Academy to co-organise a seminar on international and transnational criminal law (ICL and TCL). The seminar will be held as a closed event in The Hague from 18 to 22 March 2019. This high-level seminar entitled “Strengthening Domestic Capacity to Prosecute International and Transnational Crimes in Africa” […]
03
April
2019
Call for Papers on “Justice and Accountability for Sexual Violence in Conflict: Progress and Challenges in National Efforts to Address Impunity
In Resolution 1888 (2009), the United Nations Security Council urged Member States to investigate and prosecute conflict-related sexual violence and established the UN Team of Experts on Rule of Law and Sexual Violence in Conflict (Team of Experts) to assist national authorities in this regard. To commemorate the tenth-year anniversary of its establishment, the Team of Experts […]
03
April
2019
Announcement: Journal of International Criminal Justice Prize 2018
The Board of Editors, Journal of International Criminal Justice is pleased to award the Journal of International Criminal Justice Prize for 2018 to Ms Talita de Souza Dias for her essay, ‘The Retroactive Application of the Rome Statute in the Cases of Security Council Referrals and Ad Hoc Declarations: An Appraisal of the Existing Solutions […]
29
October
2018
Seventh Antonio Cassese Lecture: An Assessment of the Work of International Criminal Tribunals
On 30 October 2018, professor Fausto Pocar, former President of the ICTY and current President of the Italian Society of International Law, will deliver the Seventh Antonio Cassese Lecture entitled: ‘An Assessment of the Work of International Criminal Tribunals’. The annual Antonio Cassese Lecture is jointly organised by the Faculty of Political Sciences and the Faculty […]
06
July
2018
Antonio Cassese to Receive the ‘Mostar Peace Connection’ Award
Antonio Cassese has been posthumously awarded the ‘Mostar Peace Connection’ Award for his work as the First President, and later Judge, of the ICTY. The award is granted by the Center for Peace and Multiethnic Cooperation in Mostar and the ceremony will take place on 23 July 2018 in Mostar. The award comes in recognition […]