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25 Nov 2024, 5:57 am by Kate McInnes
Earlier this year, the International Criminal Court’s Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) announced the development of a new Slavery Crimes Policy and invited public comments to ensure that the resulting process and policy are “survivor-centred, trauma-informed and gender-competent. [read post]
25 Dec 2023, 10:14 am by Jacob Katz Cogan
Maloney, Melanie O’Brien & Valerie Oosterveld, Forced Marriage as the Crime Against Humanity of ‘Other Inhumane Acts’ in the International Criminal Court’s Ongwen Case Linda Mushoriwa, The Prosecutor v Dominic Ongwen: An Examination of the Role of Traditional Justice Mechanisms in International Criminal Justice Demetra Fr. [read post]
22 Jul 2023, 7:51 am by Just Security
Hill (@Alice_C_Hill) and Tess Turner International Criminal Court / Gender Persecution Recognizing the Complexity of Gender in the Crime Against Humanity of Persecution by Valerie Oosterveld (@VOosterveld) Biden Administration / Atrocity Determinations Why Say Who Did What? [read post]
1 Feb 2023, 5:41 pm by Jacob Katz Cogan
The Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs recently added the following materials to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law: a lecture on Sexual Violence and other Gender-based Crimes in the Jurisprudence of International Criminal Courts and Tribunals by Valerie Oosterveld and an Introductory Note on the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities General Assembly resolution 47/135, New York, 18… [read post]
8 Dec 2022, 6:06 am by Chile Eboe-Osuji
“It can no longer be doubted that as a matter of general customary international law a head of state will personally be liable to be called to account if there is sufficient evidence that he authorised or perpetrated such serious international crimes. [read post]
20 Jul 2022, 6:16 am by IntLawGrrls
A newly released book entitled Gender and International Criminal Law, co-edited by Intlawgrrls contributors Indira Rosenthal, Valerie Oosterveld and Susana SáCouto, brings together leading feminist international criminal and humanitarian law academics and practitioners (many of them also Intlawgrrls contributors) to examine the place of gender in international criminal law (ICL). [read post]
19 Jul 2022, 5:53 pm by Jacob Katz Cogan
Indira Rosenthal (Univ. of Tasmania - Law), Valerie Oosterveld (Western Univ. - Law), & Susana SáCouto (American Univ. - Law) have published Gender and International Criminal Law (Oxford Univ. [read post]
12 Dec 2019, 11:16 am by Milena Sterio
Guest Post By Jennifer Trahan, Clinical Professor, NYU Center for Global Affairs Members of Civil Society Organizations at the 2019 ICC Assembly of States Parties  Milena Sterio has already blogged about two of the side-events held, and Valerie Oosterveld has provided an update on the progress made during various days of the ASP. [read post]
8 Jul 2019, 7:00 am by Rosemary Grey
Does the Rome Statute define ‘gender’ as a socially constructed ground, as contended by the OTP and many expert commentators, including to name just a few, Rhonda Copelon, Valerie Oosterveld, Gay McDougall, and twenty-four UN experts who recently provided comments on the Rome Statute’s definition of ‘gender’ to the International Law Commission? [read post]
10 Dec 2018, 3:30 pm by melisahandl
” As Valerie Oosterveld points out, this formulation was the result of the negotiators resorting to “constructive ambiguity” in order to reconcile different points of view, which leaves the interpretation to the Prosecutor and ICC.[12] According to Oosterveld, while the definition is intentionally opaque it is not necessarily restrictive as it can cover a wide range of violations based both on gender and on sex. [read post]
1 Dec 2018, 5:01 am by Ariel Wheway
Fannie Lafontaine of Laval University’s Faculty of Law and the Canadian Partnership for International Justice chaired the panel of three speakers: Payam Akhavan of McGill University’s Faculty of Law, Valerie Oosterveld of Western University’s Faculty of Law, and Kyle Matthews of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies. [read post]
21 Sep 2018, 7:28 am by Lisa Davis
Valerie Oosterveld, an international criminal law professor who was a pivotal delegate at Rome, raised concerns about the problematic nature of adopting a definition into the CAH treaty that was drafted to be deliberately ambiguous (“constructive ambiguity” in diplomatic parlance) in order to resolve polarized positions during the Rome Statute negotiations. [read post]
8 Sep 2018, 9:26 am by Milena Sterio
”  The session was moderated by yours truly, and included Professors Jennifer Trahan, Yvonne Dutton, and Valerie Oosterveld as speakers. [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 3:43 am by Rosemary Grey
As Valerie Oosterveld has explained, this definition was a hard-won compromise. [read post]
18 Dec 2017, 7:52 pm by Valerie Oosterveld
Valerie Oosterveld & Sharanjeet Parmar, Photo Credit: CPIJ At the event, Sharanjeet Parmar discussed her experience as a prosecutor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) in the prosecution of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). [read post]
28 Feb 2017, 7:35 am by Valerie Oosterveld
Responses will be provided by Linda Bianchi (formerly of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, now Canadian Department of Justice) and Valerie Oosterveld (University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, Canada) on whether the ICTY’s lessons can be applied on a global scale. [read post]
21 Dec 2016, 4:41 pm by Diane Marie Amann
. ► “Gender Justice Legacies at the ICC” by yet another IntLawGrrls contributor, Valerie Oosterveld, Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies), Associate Professor, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction, University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, London, Ontario, Canada. [read post]
23 Jul 2016, 9:00 am by Danielle DerOhannesian
Valerie Oosterveld is the Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law in Canada – the responsibility for Graduate Studies was added as of July 1. [read post]
3 Sep 2014, 10:43 pm by Beth Van Schaack
  Professor and Dean Valerie Oosterveld of Western Law in Ontario, Canada, delivered the 2014 ICL Year in Review. [read post]