Category: International Criminal Justice
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The Shadow of Impunity: Justice for the killing of Baha Mousa and lessons for Afghanistan
Elizabeth Brown Twenty years ago, on 15 September 2003, a 26-year-old Iraqi man named Baha Mousa died following catastrophic mistreatment carried out by British soldiers in a detention facility in Basra. The incident spawned a complex web of accountability efforts, including a Royal Military Police investigation, a Court Martial, a judicial review case which ultimately…
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Never say never? The ICC, Putin and Ukraine
by Rachel Kerr On 1 March 2022, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, QC, announced that he was able immediately to open an investigation into the situation in Ukraine. Earlier the same week, Khan had indicated that he was seeking authorisation to do so, and suggested that it could be expedited…
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Whither Transitional Justice? US policy, past experience and future prospects
Zachary Kaufman in conversation with Rachel Kerr Monday 9 May, 1200-1330 War Studies Meeting Room, K6.07 King’s Building, Strand Campus King’s College London Zachary D. Kaufman, JD, Ph.D., is a Fellow (starting July 1, Senior Fellow) at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government as well as a Visiting Fellow at both Yale Law…