Cut the Carve-Out
29.07.2025
In the hallowed halls of British justice, a familiar narrative recently played out: a clash between the government's sovereign power in foreign affairs and its obligations under international law. The...
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EU Steps Forward
22.05.2025
Corporate accountability is increasingly recognized as essential in addressing the twin triple planetary crises of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. As transnational corporations (TNCs) dominate global supply chains, their...
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The Positive Complementarity Turn
25.01.2024
I would like to thank the seven contributors for their generous and though-provoking analyses of my book. For a first-time author, it is humbling and rewarding to read how others...
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In the Court’s Shadow
25.01.2024
The practice of international criminal law is essentially a series of compromises. Despite the purported universalist goals of international criminal law and its institutions, its exercise inevitably remains trapped by...
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Complementarity at the Regional Level
24.01.2024
Patryk Labuda has written an excellent book about the challenges and limitations of complementarity in achieving “genuine” investigations and prosecutions at the national level. He compares the experience of the...
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Going Beyond the ICC
24.01.2024
Daniele Perissi
Guy Mushiata
In “International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability. In the Court’s Shadow”, Patryk Labuda offers a very original analytical framework describing the interplay between the functioning of international tribunals and States’...
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Not All Shadows Are Created Equal
23.01.2024
A pronounced turn toward domestic prosecutions of serious crimes committed in violation of international law is highlighted by Patryk I. Labuda in his new book International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic...
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The Political Realities of Complementarity
23.01.2024
In its 1995 Tadić ruling, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) asserted that international tribunals should have primacy over national courts, in order to ensure that international...
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Mobilizing International Networks for Domestic Accountability
22.01.2024
In these comments, I suggest that we should evaluate international criminal tribunals (“ICTs”) as one aspect of an international criminal law environment that includes numerous, diverse actors with commitments to...
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Introducing the Book Review Symposium on ‘International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability’
22.01.2024
The notion of strengthening and advancing international criminal justice and its respective institutions and mechanisms has been all over the place in recent months and years: amongst others, the Syrian...
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Will the FBI Investigate?
20.01.2023
The killing of the American-Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11th, 2022 caused an international uproar, with many calling for investigations and legal actions against the soldier who supposedly...
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