Justice in Conflict » Mark Kersten

The following is a guest post by Thomas Obel Hansen. Thomas is the Maria Zambrano 2023-24 Distinguished Researcher with the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) and a Senior Lecturer in Law ...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2024/04/03/the-ceasefire-resolution-at-the-un-security-council-why-the-u-s-position-is-both-wrong-and-harmful/

Last fall, Canadians were rightly appalled to learn that an alleged Nazi veteran had been invited to sit in the House of Commons and received a standing ovation from MPs across the political spec...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2024/02/14/an-alleged-nazi-was-invited-to-parliament-but-why-are-there-nazis-and-war-criminals-in-canada-in-the-first-place/

Israel is facing charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). This was not inevitable, and reasonable people can disagree over whether the contemporary legal threshold of gen...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2024/02/02/could-israel-commit-ever-genocide-victims-of-atrocities-can-and-do-become-perpetrators-of-atrocities/

Kerstin Bree Carlson joins JiC for this guest-post on the ICJ’s interim decision in the South Africa case. Kerstin is associate professor at Roskilde University and The American University of P...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2024/02/01/rights-without-remedies-the-failure-of-the-international-court-of-justice-to-order-a-ceasefire-to-stop-alleged-genocide-in-gaza/

Barrie Sander joins JiC for this four-part series on what the situation in Israel and Palestine tell us about how we understand, construct, and tell stories about international law. Barrie is ...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2024/01/31/international-law-and-the-stories-we-tell-reflections-on-international-lawyers-narratives-and-the-situation-in-israel-palestine-part-4/

Barrie Sander joins JiC for this four-part series on what the situation in Israel and Palestine tell us about how we understand, construct, and tell stories about international law. Barrie is ...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2024/01/26/international-law-and-the-stories-we-tell-reflections-on-international-lawyers-narratives-and-the-situation-in-israel-palestine-part-3/

Barrie Sander joins JiC for this second article in a four-part series on what the situation in Israel and Palestine tell us about how we understand, construct, and tell stories about internation...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2024/01/25/international-law-and-the-stories-we-tell-reflections-on-international-lawyers-narratives-and-the-situation-in-israel-palestine-international-law-and-the-stories-we-tell-part-2/

Barrie Sander joins JiC for this four-part series on what the situation in Israel and Palestine tell us about how we understand, construct, and tell stories about international law. Barrie is Ass...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2024/01/24/international-law-and-the-stories-we-tell-reflections-on-international-lawyers-narratives-and-the-situation-in-israel-palestine-part-one/

The following article was written by Amanda Ghahremani and Mark Kersten and originally appeared in the Toronto Star. Amanda is an international lawyer, research fellow at the Human Rights Center,...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2024/01/22/let-the-international-court-of-justice-decide-it-is-law-not-history-that-holds-the-promise-of-protecting-life-in-gaza/

Israel has now responded to South Africa’s allegations of genocide in Gaza. In its submissions at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel’s lawyers relied on a combination of legal...

https://justiceinconflict.org/2024/01/19/genocide-doesnt-just-happen-israel-gaza-and-genocide-as-a-process-not-an-event/