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10 Aug 2012, 1:30 am
.' – IntLawGrrl Naomi Roht-Arriaza (left), Professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, and Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno (right), Acting U.S. [read post]
10 Aug 2012, 1:30 am
.' – IntLawGrrl Naomi Roht-Arriaza (left), Professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, and Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno (right), Acting U.S. [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 5:46 am
As noted here by IntLawGrrl Naomi Roht-Arriaza, today the ICC's Trial Chamber I issued its “Decision establishing the principles and procedures to be applied to reparations” in the case against Thomas Lubanga Dyilo (left). [read post]
4 Aug 2012, 3:00 am
However, as reported IntLawGrrl Naomi Roht-Arriaza (left) – who also appears in Granito – separate proceedings have been initiated in Guatemala. [read post]
1 Aug 2012, 1:10 pm
After IntLawGrrl Naomi Roht-Arriaza’s excellent ASIL Insight about the disappointing prevaricación decision of the Spanish Supreme Court (prior post), the decision by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court is a welcome reminder of the role domestic tribunals can play in the fight against impunity. [read post]
29 Jul 2012, 1:30 am
.' (credit) --IntLawGrrl Naomi Roht-Arriaza (left), in "The Spanish Civil War, Amnesty, and the Trials of Judge Garzón," a superb ASIL Insight that explains the content and consequences of decisions (some available only in Spanish) relating not only to the legal travails of Judge Baltasar Garzón, but also to the quest for redress by survivors of victims of Franco-era atrocities. [read post]
25 Jul 2012, 9:35 pm
Naomi Roht-Arriaza (Univ. of California - Hastings College of the Law) has posted an ASIL Insight on The Spanish Civil War, Amnesty, and the Trials of Judge Garzón. [read post]
5 Jul 2012, 7:25 am
In addition to Pamela's pivotal interview of the general, there was much hard work by IntLawGrrl Naomi Roht-Arriaza, an Advisory Council Member at the San Francisco-based Center for Justice & Accountability, as well as Almudena Bernabeu and others at CJA, a nongovernmental organization whose Executive Director is another IntLawGrrls contributor, Pamela Merchant. [read post]
24 May 2012, 6:25 pm
As commentators like Naomi Roht-Arriaza note, the case shifts universal jurisdiction’s reach into the Global South, beyond the purview of Western democracies. [read post]
17 May 2012, 1:00 am
.' So writes Peter Godwin in a New York Times op-ed, entitled "A Landmark Ruling in South Africa," that adds further context to a ruling last week on which Naomi Roht-Arriaza and I posted here and here. [read post]
14 May 2012, 3:17 pm
As Naomi Roht-Arriaza points out in her fascinating post on the subject, this particular case of South Africa v Zimbabwe illustrates the strain put on governments by the principle of complementarity under the 1998 Rome Statute, which puts pressure on implicated states to investigate these major crimes on their threshold, too close to home. [read post]
11 May 2012, 6:00 am
As IntLawGrrl Naomi Roht-Arriaza further discusses today in her post from Johannesburg, the applicants sought investigation of an event alleged to have taken place on March 27, 2007, in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 9:39 am
" Here's the call:The International Journal of Transitional Justice invites submissions for its 2013 special issue titled ‘The role of international criminal justice in transitional justice,' to be guest edited by Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of Law. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 2:00 am
is an occasional item about notable calls for papers) The International Journal of Transitional Justice invites submissions for its 2013 special issue titled ‘The role of international criminal justice in transitional justice,' which I'm pleased to announce will be guest-edited by yours truly, Naomi Roht-Arriaza (below right), Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of Law. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 1:18 pm
As IntLawGrrl Naomi Roht-Arriaza has posted, this argument has been accepted by Spanish, foreign and international courts.However, it didn’t work in this case.The Supreme Court rejected all of these lines of argumentation, essentially barring any future charges of Franco-era crimes. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 8:43 am
Moreover, as IntLawGrrl has Naomi Roht-Arriaza has written, the Court interpreted international law broadly—in stark contrast to the Supreme Court’s decision. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 7:12 am
Baltasar Garzón was acquitted today of charges stemming from his opening of an investigation into criminal violations of human rights that occurred during Spain's decades of dictatorship under General Francisco Franco.Madrid daily El País reports that Spain's Supreme Court voted 6 to 1 to clear Garzón of the charge of prevaricación, an offense that IntLawGrrl Naomi Roht-Arriaza described in an earlier post. [read post]
15 Feb 2012, 7:28 am
These children were then given up for adoption, often to couples sympathetic with the government, and sometimes to the very people who killed their parents.Perhaps the most well known of these centers was, as IntLawGrrl Naomi Roht-Arriaza has posted, ESMA, the Navy School of the Mechanics, which sits in the middle of Buenos Aires. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 7:00 am
Anton of the Australian National University College of Law (and author of the excellent Anton’s Weekly Digest of International Law), Professor Naomi Roht-Arriaza of UC Hastings, Professor Jorge Avendano, of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Professor Timo Koivurova of the University of Lapland, and Professor Cesare Romano of Loyola Law School Los Angeles. [read post]
24 Nov 2011, 2:07 pm
As if in response to questions like those raised in Naomi Roht-Arriaza's excellent post below, the International Criminal Court Public Affairs Unit just posted the following statement on the ICC website (emphasis added):Should the Libyan authorities wish to conduct national prosecutions against the suspect, they shall submit a challenge to the admissibility of the case before Pre-Trial Chamber I, pursuant to articles 17 and 19 of the Rome Statute of the ICC. [read post]
