Hemi Mistry

Absolutely!! Every international justice event should have a (un)scheduled walk in the woods.

I found it during early during one of my pandemic morning walks around Wollaton Park. I think I remember remarking at the time that I had found my favourite tree. Haven't found that beats it. She is a beaut.

Conor Gearty died a month ago yesterday. He was deeply committed to human rights law without idealising it. He recognised its power & value while acknowledging its limitations (& those of the people engaging with it). He was also an exceptional lawyer. This is a fitting final piece in the @lrb.co.uk

Transparency as performance: the ‘As Is’ and ‘As If’ worlds of international adjudication Abstract. This article applies transparency to itself. It asks ‘What is transparency?’, ‘What do we think it means?’, and ‘What are the effects of transpar

📢New publication!!

In this article I play around with the fictions (or frauds?) of transparency within international courts and tribunals and examine how transparency and secrecy constitute power and authority
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I had a lot of fun writing this during my last study leave (yes, I'm lucky!) and presenting it at the 'Translucent Justice' workshop at the Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg in October 2023. Thanks to @kritikasharma.bsky.social, @lnruiz.bsky.social, and Olivier Baillet for a great conference

Transparency as performance: the ‘As Is’ and ‘As If’ worlds of international adjudication Abstract. This article applies transparency to itself. It asks ‘What is transparency?’, ‘What do we think it means?’, and ‘What are the effects of transpar

📢New publication!!

In this article I play around with the fictions (or frauds?) of transparency within international courts and tribunals and examine how transparency and secrecy constitute power and authority
academic.oup.com/jids/article...

LJIL joins this platform today, with announcement of our new issue, 38(1): “Special Issue Addressing Issues and Concerns Raised by the Publication of the ‘Gaza Marine Article’”.

Image of session four of the 2025 Nottingham International Criminal Justice Conference, featuring three speakers (L:R Ezequiel Jimenez, Jennifer Giblin, and Kritika Sharma).

Session Four: Governance and Accountability at the ICC Chair: Jennifer Giblin, Edge Hill University Governing the International Criminal Court: Tracing the Practice of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute - Ezequiel Jimenez Martinez, Amnesty International & CILRAP Forgotten Spaces of International Criminal Justice: Dealing with Misconduct and Whistleblower Protection at International Criminal Courts and Tribunals - Kritika Sharma, Luxembourg Agency for Research Integrity

The final session of the first day of the 2025 Nottingham Intl Criminal Justice Conference addressed accountability issues at the ICC. Chaired by Jennifer Giblin w/ presentations from Ezequiel Jimenez (@ezejim.bsky.social) & Kritika Sharma (@kritikasharma.bsky.social‬) #UoN_ICL25 #IntlCrimJustice

Image of session three of the 2025 Nottingham International Criminal Justice Conference, featuring four speakers (L:R Mary Waterman, Michelle Coleman, Rory Sugrue & Javier S. Eskauriatza).

Session Three: Legal Complexities in Issues of Perpetration Chair: Javier S. Eskauriatza, University of Nottingham (Im)Proving Defences at the International Criminal Court - Michelle Coleman, Swansea University Ongwen, The Adult Child Soldier: A Victim or A Villain? - Mary Waterman, Swansea University Rethinking the Exclusion-Prosecution Nexus: How to Bridge the Accountability Gap for Vulnerable and Periphery Actors in Armed Conflicts Who Seek Refuge Abroad - Rory Sugrue, Tilburg University

Our third session of the day examined the legal complexities in issues of perpetration, chaired by Dr Javier S. Eskauriatza (@jseskau.bsky.social) with presentations from Dr Michelle Coleman (@michellecoleman.bsky.social), Mary Waterman & Rory Sugrue #UoN_ICL25 #IntlCrimJustice

Listening to great presentations at this conference just now. This is the second year @uniofnottingham.bsky.social organizes what promises to become a flagship yearly conference on international criminal justice

Image of session two of the 2025 Nottingham International Criminal Justice Conference, featuring six speakers (L:R Hemi Mistry, Francesco Cunsolo, Caleb Wheeler, Victor Kattan, Daryna Abbakumova & Jolana Makraiová).

Session Two: Contemporary Developments in Substantive Crimes Chair: Caleb Wheeler, Cardiff University Apartheid as a crime against humanity: Recent developments - Victor Kattan, University of Nottingham Complexities behind ‘incitement’ to violence and ‘hate’ speech from a criminal justice perspective - Rachel Horan, The Averment Group*, and Jolana Makraiová, International Nuremberg Principles Academy* Atrocious Images: Combatant-Produced Illicit Imagery as Hate Speech in International Criminal Law - Hemi Mistry, University of Nottingham Challenges of Prosecuting Cyberattacks as Cyber-Enabled Crimes under the Rome Statute - Daryna Abbakumova, Geneva Graduate Institute New challenges in prosecuting intentional destruction of cultural heritage - Francesco Cunsolo, Università di Bologna

Session two, which focussed on contemporary developments in substantive crimes, was chaired by Caleb Wheeler with presentations from Victor Kattan (@victorkattan.bsky.social), Jolana Makraiová, Hemi Mistry (@hemimistry.bsky.social), Daryna Abbakumova & Francesco Cunsolo #UoN_ICL25 #IntlCrimJustice

Very happy to be here presenting on #AutoHistories of #InternationalCriminalLawyers with @ilariazavoli.bsky.social (and later my own paper on #EmotionalLabour in #ICL)

Image of Session One of the Nottingham International Criminal Justice Conference.

Session One: Critical Reflections on the Purposes, Rationales, and Subjects of International Criminal Justice Chair: Olympia Bekou, University of Nottingham Rome Statute, Quo Vadis? Current Discussions on the Limits of (Criminal Liability in) a Human-Centric International Criminal Law System - Anna Lena Hörzer, University of Graz The long-standing issue of the adequacy of criminal sanctions for international crimes: untying proportionality from retributive considerations - Geraldina Ester Di Natali, University of Catania Reconciliation No More: The Disappearance of a Once Omnipresent Goal of International Justice - Iva Vukušić, Utrecht University

Today's first session explored the purposes, rationales &
subjects of International Criminal Justice and was chaired by Olympia Bekou (@olympiabekou.bsky.social), featuring insights from Anna Lena Hörzer, Geraldina Ester Di Natali & Iva Vukušić (@vukusiciva.bsky.social) #UoN_ICL25 #IntlCrimJustice

Lovely to be in Nottingham ahead of tomorrow’s @uon-hrlc.bsky.social International Criminal Justice Conference where I will present my research (part of a forthcoming book) about the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute

Our letter was quoted by the Wall Street Journal.

Full texe here:

www.justsecurity.org/116904/israe...

Final preparations are well underway and we are looking forward to two days of dissecting and digesting the state of international criminal justice...

Could England and Wales introduce jury-free trials? Here’s how they work in other countries Brian Leveson has recommended more judge-alone trials to address the backlog of nearly 80,000 cases.

England and Wales might be making greater use of judge-alone ("jury free") trials to address the Crown Court backlog. Matt Thomason and I discuss this in the Conversation, drawing on our research into judge-alone trials across common law jurisdictions: theconversation.com/could-englan...

Programme details - text version available in link

Programme details - text version available in link

Programme details - text version available in link

We are pleased to share the Programme for the University of Nottingham School of Law and @uon-hrlc.bsky.social Int'l Criminal Justice Conference. We can't wait to welcome speakers and attendees to Nottingham!
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If you would like to attend, please register here: shorturl.at/FKhrX

What a minefield. At least the fast speech increases the likelihood they'll miss what they would otherwise misunderstand.

I start off okay, quite neutral, but as I get tired and/or excited/carried away my accent slips and my vowels get looser and the colloquialisms come out. I imagine you have a similar double whammy?

Don't worry, I'm sure if there'd been a terrible miscommunication you'd have come to know about it. I've lived and learned many instances of my British and, specifically, Yorkshire colloquialisms causing 🤨🤨🤨 amongst cosmopolitan student audiences.

Yes, it's totally normal here. However, I am also aware enough to not use in a lecture/class full of students who come from elsewhere because, yeah, your response.

😂😂😂

Exactly, that makes it even more unreasonable for the Graun to figure out which side of the s is the right (as in correct, not 'opposite of left') side :)

An apostrophe: no. An apostrophe on the right side of the s: yes.

I suppose they got the right name for the Court correct. Maybe one day we'll also get the capitalisation of its name too. Or maybe that's asking too much.

Dossier of alleged Sudan war crimes handed to Metropolitan police Lawyers say evidence file outlines atrocities including torture and rape carried out by the Rapid Support Forces in the country’s brutal civil conflict

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

2025 is a lot, so we have extended the deadline for abstracts for the 2025 UoN Int'l Criminal Justice Conference. We welcome abstracts approaching International Criminal Justice from all perspectives.

📆Revised Abstract Deadline: 15th April 2025
More info: www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/f...

How the High-Stakes Arrest of Rodrigo Duterte Unfolded (Gift Article) The man who ordered the Philippines’ bloody war on drugs is now in a cell at The Hague. Getting him there was far from a sure thing.

How Duterte was arrested and brought to the #ICC: lots of waiting in the airport lounge with rice, barbecued meat, and Coca-Cola.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...

After the success of our inaugural conference last year, we're delighted to launch the CfP for round 2 of the Nottingham International Criminal Justice Conference, this July.