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Why are people in Kosovo so upset about the KSC decision on war crimes and their former prime minister Hashim Thaci and others? If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you ca...

All rise for Britain's bid for the world bench with Dapo Akande. If interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ne...

A twisty tale of Austrian Universal Jurisdiction on Syria torture, with Astrid Reisinger Coracini. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter:...

What are some of the specific challenges that women journalists in Gaza deal with? AFP reporter Mai Yaghi joins us on the pod. Mai is also one of the protagonists of the documentary Inside Gaza. Julia Hammett-Jamart, impact producer of the documentary and managing director of Catalyst Films, joins the conversation to explain how to best engage people with these topics. Want to find out more? Check...

What is legal sightseeing and how it can give us new perspectives on international law with Sofia Stolk and Renske Vos. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign u...

How Australia's experience with prosecuting war crimes translated to the ICTY, with Graham Blewitt. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter:...

This week, Professor Yvonne McDermott Rees and PhD candidate Anne Hausknecht join us to ask what deepfakes and AI mean for international courts, and whether judges can still believe the evidence put in front of them. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on inter...

As universal jurisdiction gains momentum worldwide, we spoke with John Bosco Siboyintore and Nicola Palmer about its potential to close the accountability gap left by the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. If it's interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on internat...

Do women cover conflict differently. We chat to Zahra Nader from Afghanistan. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetri...

As AI becomes embedded in international criminal investigations, we talked to Marta Bo and Benjamin Thorne about its promises and pitfalls. If it's interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.co...

AI's new role in military targeting; Jessica Dorsey and Elke Schwarz explain what it means for international humanitarian law. You can find Jessica's doctoral thesis here: https://research-portal.uu.nl/en/publications/keeping-our-humanity-ensuring-the-legitimacy-of-military-targetin/ and Elke's book here: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526114822/ If it’s interesting, do like, subscrib...

Belgian Universal Jurisdiction - how does it work - with Mathias Holvoet. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalh...

Will middle powers like Canada and the Netherlands show some backbone and defend values of international law in the context of the US/Israel attack on Iran? We discuss this hot-button issue with Mark Kersten and Otto Spijkers. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcast...

Laura Baron-Menodza explains how the ICC can tackle environmental crimes and how a new policy should radically shift how the court works. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetrical...

With Jeanne Sulzer we discuss universal jurisdiction in France, against individuals and corporations, such as the Lumbala case and LaFarge case. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymm...

What are rights and wrongs of putting very old people on trial for atrocity crimes? With Caroline Davidson of Williamette University. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or...

Corporate crime cases in Latin America - why are they leading the field? If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalha...

Gissou Nia guides us through accountability for violence agianst protestors in Iran. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.as...

Maduro kidnapped by the US - what are the implications for accountability for human rights violations in Venezuela and for peace and security in Latin America. With Brian Finucane and Ignacio Jovtis. 1st para - who, talking about what, and why it’s important. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our websit...

Why do people plead guilty at an international tribunal? And is it common for women to be war criminals? Olivera Simic, examines former Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles:...

What are the realistic avenues to accountability especially for the women of Afghanistan. Shaharzad Akbar dicusses all the current possibilities. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhairc...

With the last weeks of U.S. strikes on alleged drug dealer boats and saying they are in "a non-international armed conflict" with drug cartels, we ask 'when is war' and whether a state can just announce it is at war, with Tamsin Phillipa Paige and Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background informati...

Juliette McIntyre explains what's happening at the International Court of Justice and what she'll be looking out for in upcoming genocide cases. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircu...

In this episode of our Climate series, we look at Mar Menor, the first ecosystem in Europe to gain legal personhood. A unique place for several reasons, Mar Meno is now also the first natural entity to be represented at the European Court of Human Rights by our guest Monica Feria-Tinta, counsel for Mar Menor and a barrister practising in public international law and international arbitration at Tw...

A complex legal shuffle is going on in The Hague currently, where the former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte is being held at the International Criminal Court Detention Unit. Duterte faces potential charges related to a campaign against drugs sellers buyers and users in which at least 7,000 Filipinos were killed. Why is it complex? Well, any ICC case […]