Although the current Japanese legal system is based on the Anglo-American model, there was a time prior to its conquest in WWII where they used a system modeled after Germany. Background Prussian dominance can probably…
International Law, probably one of the most highly politicized and disputed areas within legal studies, is significantly different from domestic national laws in one important way. Whereas all states have courts, jails, etc. as methods…
Part of the International Conflicts series Introduction One of the only international instruments working in the DRC currently is the UN peacekeeping mission, MONUC. According the UN’s peacekeeping website, this is the largest current UN…
Part of the International Conflicts series Cross Purposes? International Law and Political Settlements – A Roundtable Discussion with All Speakers A panel of all the previous speakers collectively discussed the challenges with amnesty for war…
Part of the International Conflicts series Darryl Robinson: New Contexts, New Models – International Prosecutors in Pre-Transitional Justice Situations Darryl Robinson, who teaches international human rights at the University of Toronto, proposed a new model…
Part of the International Conflicts series Valerie Oosterveld: International Criminal Justice, Peace and Politics: Making Gender Matter Valerie Oosterveld, of the Faculty of Law and the University of Western Ontario, started by asking if international…
Part of the International Conflicts series Joanna Quinn: Getting to Peace? Negotiating with the LRA in Northern Uganda Joanna Quinn is the Co-Chair of the Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict Research Group at the University…
Part of the International Conflicts series Joseph Rikhof: Fewer Places to Hide? The impact of domestic war crimes prosecutions on international impunity Joseph Rikhof, law faculty at the University of Ottawa, discussed the effects…
Part of the International Conflicts series Audrey Boctor: Impact of the ICTR in Rwanda Audrey Boctor of Columbia Law School has shared that Rwandan civilians actually resisted the efforts of the International Criminal Tribunal for…
 Part of the International Conflicts series Patricia Marchak: Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) to Prosecute Crimes Committed by the Khmer Riuge (KR) During Democratic Kampuchea (DK) Patricia Marchack commented on how the…
Part of the International Conflicts series Valery Perry: Limits to Sovereignty in Statebuilding & Post-War Transition: Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Case of Managed Democracy Valery Perry has lived and worked in Bosnia-Herzegovina since 1999 and spoke…
 Part of the International Conflicts series Mark Drumbl: Bosnia v. Serbia Litigation: What it Means for Transitional Justice Mark Drumbl, of the Washington and Lee University School of Law, discussed transitional justice in the former…
