Event overview
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Ioannis Kalpouzos & Itamar Mann discuss international criminal law's basic mandate to prosecute "serious crimes of interest to the international community as a whole."
The enterprise aims to provide accountability for the most egregious forms of violence. We will argue that this mandate has far too often led to a preference to prosecute those responsible for spectacular acts of overt violence which are easily translated into images of faraway barbarity. If international criminal law stops there, it will reaffirm and perpetuate the longstanding critique against it, namely, that it is an instrument of neocolonialist domination. In this moment of increasing fragility of the international criminal legal enterprise, we believe this problem may be addressed through due regard not only to spectacular forms of violence, but also to seemingly mundane, banal, violent processes. These too can in be granted a measure of accountability at the international criminal court through existing legal instruments. We will demonstrate this through several examples, part of which we have been personally involved in.
Dr Ioannis Kalpouzos is Lecturer in Law at City Law School. Before he joined City, Dr Kalpouzos taught at the University of Exeter and the University of Nottingham, where he obtained his PhD (2011). He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame. Dr Kalpouzos is the co-founder of the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), a non-profit organisation bringing together legal practitioners, investigative journalists and academics to pursue innovative transnational legal actions. Dr Kalpouzos’ research is in the law of armed conflict, international criminal law and the law on the use of force.
Dr Itamar Mann is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Haifa University. His research and teaching focuses on international law and political theory. Before moving to Haifa, he was a research fellow and adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center for three years. He holds an LLB from Tel Aviv University, and LLM and JSD degrees from Yale Law School. His book, Humanity at Sea: Unauthorized Migration and the Foundations of International Law, came out with Cambridge University Press in 2016.
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6 Feb 2017 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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