Truth Matters
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International Judicial Monitor

In the current political climate and culture in the United States, one of the most dangerous developments that occurred during the recent campaign for president, dangerous especially for the legal system on which democracy and democratic principles rest, was the wholesale abandonment of the search for truth and truth telling.
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Peace and Judicial Systems Amid the Fourth Industrial Age
By: Bradford C. Brown, Senior Advisor, Center for Judicial Informatics Science And Technology of the Mitre Corporation

The Fourth Industrial Age is evolving quickly, with research and development spreading all over the world and estimated at $1.9 trillion. (Read More »)

Another Side of the Caroline
By: Stephen  C.  Neff, Reader-in-Law – Public International Law, University of Edinburgh Law School

Ardent readers of this column (we know you’re out there!) will recall the very informative contribution by James Apple in the Spring of 2012, on the landmark incident of the Caroline in 1837, and its significance for the development of the international law of necessity and self-defence.  (Read More »)

Preparing a Court for the Aftermath of a Disaster
By: Netta Squires, J.D., Senior Law and Policy Analyst, University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security
There is no such thing as a disaster-free zone.
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Gaius, Roman Jurist
By: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International Judicial Monitor

In my wanderings through the library of the University of Edinburg Law School, which I attended several years ago as a graduate student, or maybe it was during a prerusal of offerings in one of the local Edinburgh bookstores, I came across an interesting title.
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Withdrawals from the Rome Statute: the Future of the ICC
By: Richard A. Goldstone, Former Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa, First Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, and Regular Columnist, International Judicial Monitor

During October and November 2016 three States Parties to the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court (ICC) gave notice to the Secretary-General of the United Nations of their withdrawal from the Statute. (Read More »)

Legacies of Nuremberg: Report From an International Conference
By: Iva Vukusic, International Judicial Monitor Correspondent in The Hague

Prosecutors at international and hybrid tribunals and practitioners, scholars, and advocates gathered in Nuremberg, Germany, in late September, 2016 to mark the 70^th anniversary of the landmark judgment of the International Military Tribunal (IMT) that followed the end of the Second World War.
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African Interpretation of Immunities Before the International Criminal Court
By: Mohammad Hadi Zakerhossein, Ph.D. Researcher, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

The autumn 2016 was the end of the honeymoon in the relationship between Africa and the International Criminal Court (the ICC/Court). South Africa, Burundi, and later, Gambia expressed their intentions to put an end to their membership to the ICC. (Read More »)

Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court’s History and the Nation’s Constitutional Dialogue
By: Melvin I. Urofsky
Pantheon Books. 2015

Reviewed by: James G. Apple, Editor-in-Chief, International Judicial Monitor

Melvin I. Urofsky, professor emeritus  of history at Virginia Commonwealth University in the U.S. and past chair of that institution’s history department, has focused his writing and teaching career on law-related subjects, often controversial. (Read More »)