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This week’s pod is on Ukraine's Special Tribunal - from trials without the accused to who gets immunity to whether the new tribunal could be a bargaining chip in peace negotiations. 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 a...

What do we know now about the illegal transfer of children from Ukraine to Russia and what kind of crime might it be? We chat to Thordis Gylfadottir of the Council of Europe. If you found this 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 th...

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...

This week's Justice Update is all about the new Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression - created specifically to hold the Russian Federation to account for its war of aggression in Ukraine. 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 cove...

This Bonus Episode introduces you to our Patreon feed, where every month we do a bonus episode of the War Criminals Book Club. 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...

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 […]

In this episode we explore the challenges of digital evidence and how international courts are keeping pace with Sarah Zarmsky. If this is 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...

We cover the ICC confirmation of charges proceedings this week against Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony, who has still not been arrested, and discuss it all with Lucy Gaynor. If this is 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 angle...

Experts are saying Israel's action in Gaza are genocide. How do they come to this conclusion? Melanie O'Brien guides us through the elements they consider. 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...

We bring you one of our Patreon War Criminals Book Club bonus episodes: Ana Srovin Coralli joins to discuss the documentary Toshkua, by director Ludovic Bonleux and enforced disappearances of Central American migrants in Mexico. 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...

We finish our summer series with two ongoing cases: Lafarge and Lundin Mining. We have updates on these cases at the end of the episode. 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 second episode in our summer series of repeats deals with the ongoing trial of the former president of Kosovo for war crimes. 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 ne...

We start our summer series on the lobbying for a new Crimes Against Humanity Treaty. Since we recorded, the treaty idea has been approved by the UN General Assembly. 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...

Steph and Janet discuss the newly unveiled global memorial dedicated to all survivors and victims of conflict-related sexual violence in The Hague 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.asy...

We explore a new UK group pressurising the government to fulfil its obligations under international law to prevent atrocities. 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 newsl...

We look ahead to the International Court of Justice official advisory opinion on climate justice which is due this month. What were the arguments made during the hearings back in December 2024, how much attention this is getting and how may it be received? With Nikki Reisch, Vishal Prashad, Brenda Reson Sapuro and Felix Golenko. Do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Chec...

Samuel Moyn on Israel and the US attacks on Iran in international law. 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/newsletters/...

What International Humanitarian Law (IHL) - the laws of war - say about hospitals, with Cordula Droege of the ICRC. 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: http...

Gabija Grigaite Daugirde and Christian Wenaweser come on the podcast to discuss the new Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine and the new International Criminal Court's focus on aggression. 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...

In this Justice Update Janet and Steph talk about Janet's sidequest into understanding about combattants and trauma and meeting Canadian General Roméo Dallaire. 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...

This week we're looking a possible case on climate change before the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights (and asking our guest Yusra Suedi how it fits in with other cases before international legal bodies that involve climate change and trying to hash out states' obligations. Do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our web...

"Where do victims of war crimes go to get reparations? We talk to Frederiek de Vlaming about the Nuhanovic Foundation's litigation against the Dutch government" “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.c...