International criminal justice relies on messages, speech acts, and performative practices in
order to convey social meaning. Major criminal proceedings, such as Nuremberg, Tokyo …

Thank you very much Professor Padideh Ala'i for that very kind introduction. I would also like
to thank you Dean Camille A. Nelson of the Washington College of Law and the Society for …

As the glow that accompanied the kinetic judicialization of the field of international criminal
justice has faded over time, scholars have increasingly turned to expressivist strands of …

Transnational corporate bribery involves companies bribing foreign public officials to obtain
or retain business in their international business dealings. Prosecutorial authorities are …

As communities struggle to make sense of mass atrocities, expectations have increasingly
been placed on international criminal courts to render authoritative historical accounts of …

In Judges and the Making of International Criminal Law Joseph Powderly explores the role
of judicial creativity in the progressive development of international criminal law. This wide …

Abstract 9 December 2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Genocide
Convention by the United Nations General Assembly. Article 6 of the Convention explicitly …

Individuals formerly involved in armed groups are positioned in the victim–perpetrator binary
by legal systems and societies. Media participates in this process and influences the …

This book analyses how international criminal institutions, and their actors–legal counsels,
judges, investigators, registrars–construct witness identity and memory. Filling an important …

This Article argues that legal actors use narratives of gendered violence to generate
intelligible victimhood categories when investigating and prosecuting sexual harm. Building …