Spreading The Jam (moved to www.dovjacobs.com)

Dear Readers, after over four years (already) with blogger, I've decided to make the somewhat messy move to Wordpress. I therefore invite you to access Spreading the Jam at the brand new site:...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2013/10/important-notice-spreading-jam-moving.html

Cross posted on Invisible College Today, a prestigious group of experts publicly “unveiled” a draft statute for a Syrian Tribunal. The list of contributors is quite impressive, including...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2013/10/draft-statute-for-syria-war-crimes.html

Following the confirmation of the 50 year sentence of Charles Taylor , there is a tone of celebration from a number of human rights organisations. One expression that has struck me as problemati...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2013/09/taylor-judgment-victory-for-justice.html

As I logged on to the livestream of the SCSL this morning at 10.30, there was a song playing on a loop with the most extraordinary lyrics: "i just can't stand to see you go, i don't understand w...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2013/09/first-thoughts-on-taylor-appeal.html

By Catherine Harwood , Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies The use of chemical weapons in Syria in August 2013 has generated widespread international outrage. International actors h...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2013/09/guest-post-use-of-chemical-weapons-is.html

There doesn't seem to be a day that something new does not arise in the Harhoff saga. Today, the Presiding Judge of the Chamber, Judge Antonetti, has decided to make public the report that he wr...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2013/09/saving-private-harhoff-report-by-judge.html

Today has seen a sudden flurry of activity in response to the disqualification of Judge Harhoff last week (see here and here ). The Vice President has issued an order on the follow up to the de...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2013/09/movement-on-harhoff-saga-at-icty.html

I suggested in my previous post that the disqualification of Judge Harhoff from the Seselj case could mean that the trial would have to start over from scratch, or be terminated because a retri...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2013/08/harhoff-disqualification-no-impact-on.html

The news broke an hour ago: Seselj's long-winded motion to disqualify Judge Harhoff from his case has been successful. His motion was based on the letter that Judge Harhoff sent  in the spring ...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2013/08/nightmare-scenario-at-icty-judge.html

Dapo Akande and Kevin John Heller are engaging in a really interesting discussion on how the application of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) might allow us to interpret the ...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2013/08/why-vienna-convention-should-not-be.html

I just came across this article on the sense website about the morale of the staff at the ICTY, based on a survey taken among the Associate Legal Officers (ALOs) in June. This is how the resu...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2013/08/low-morale-at-icty.html

This is arguably my shortest blog post ever, but, in addition to my more lenghty thoughts on the subject (here and here ), I wanted to share my feeling about a lot of what has been written, and ...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-visual-summary-of-my-thoughts-on.html

] The letter by Judge Harhoff alledging that the President of the ICTY, Judge Meron, was acting on orders from the US in recent aquittals, or at least adopting legal positions to support US po...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2013/06/follow-up-on-reactions-to-harhoff-letter.html

] The news has spread since this morning like a virus. A Danish newspaper has revealed the existence of a letter sent to a list of 56 (!) friends by Judge Harhoff, a siting judge at the ICTY...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2013/06/some-thoughts-on-bombshell-letter-by.html

As has been widely reported already, The ICC OTP announced today that it had received a referral from the Comoros "in relation to the event of May 2010 on the vessel Mavi Marmara". You will rec...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-comoros-referral-to-icc-of-israel.html

By Manuel J. Ventura Director, The Peace and Justice Initiative I’d like to begin by thanking Dov for giving up the space on his blog to allow me to post the following thoughts on the Pe...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2013/03/guest-post-what-icty-appeal-judgment-in.html

By Jens Iverson , Leiden University I’d like to thank Dov Jacobs for allowing me to post on his excellent blog. This essay is, at heart, a plea for a more open discussion of the tradeoffs...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2012/12/guest-post-springing-trap-prosecutorial.html

] Today, the International Court of Justice issued its Judgment in the case opposing Belgium and Senegal on whether Senegal is violating its international law obligations by not prosecuting, o...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2012/07/breaking-news-icj-find-that-senegal.html

As anybody following ICC activity most likely knows, Mali has referred its own situation to the ICC, as indicated by the OTP in a press release . I was not planning to particularly comment on th...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2012/07/random-comments-on-mali-self-referral.html

There is no doubt that Luis Moreno Ocampo, the recently departed ICC Prosecutor, was to ICL commentators what George Dubya Bush was to liberal americans, an endless provider of material to write...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2012/07/lubanga-sentence-part-2-why-ocampo.html

The International Criminal Court issued its first sentence today in the Lubanga case. In a thankfully short Decision, the Trial Chamber sentenced him to 14 years, minus time served. There is a n...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2012/07/some-thoughts-on-lubanga-sentence-throw.html

Cross-posted on Opinio Juris On the 30th of May, the SCSL sentenced Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison. The sentencing judgment raises a number of interesting issues. some commentators, s...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2012/06/sentencing-taylor-suffering-victims-and.html

This post continues the series of comments of the Lubanga verdict started here and here . In this post, I consider the nature of the armed conflict and the elements of the crime of enlisting, co...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2012/03/comments-on-lubanga-judgment-part-3.html

Moving away from questions of form, as dealt with in my previous post , let's look at certain issues of substance, which I will broadly consider in the order they are dealt with in the judgment. ...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2012/03/first-judgment-at-icc-some-random_14.html

(see Part 2 and Part 3 ) Today, the ICC issued its first judgment in the Lubanga trial. He was found guilty of the war crime of conscripting and enlisting children under the age of 15 and usin...

http://dovjacobs.blogspot.com/2012/03/first-judgment-at-icc-some-random.html