On Tuesday, 7 April 2026, Australia’s most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, was arrested and charged with five counts of the war crime of murder. He is…

It has been a packed fortnight, as commentators continue to come to grips with the US attack on Venezuela and begin to grapple with the US's escalating designs…

“It has stopped raining! Now, come outside, Muslims, we are going to play.” These are the words the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court…

Three years after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the widespread activation of universal and other forms of extraterritorial jurisdiction to prosecute international crimes committed in the…

In this post I will discuss the complementarity objections expressed by Germany and some other participants in the ongoing ICC arrest warrant proceedings in the…

Almost 8 months into the Gaza War, International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan announced on 20 May that he has applied to the Court’s…

The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) launched a public consultation on its Draft Policy on Complementarity and Cooperation (‘Draft Policy’) on…

The (new) Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim A. A. Khan Q.C., on 28 October announced the closure of the preliminary examination of…

This blogpost argues that including an additional admissibility criterion in the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention) for cases that were carefully dealt with at the…

The controversy evolving around the role and competence of the Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace (Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz, SJP) has reached a new…