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UN judges order Mladic to testify at Karadzic trial
The UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday granted a motion by Radovan Karadzic to subpoena Ratko Mladic, former leader of the Bosnian Serb army during the Bosnian civil war, to testify at his trial where (More) |
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History of the Court
The ICTY delivered its first indictment ever against Dragan Nikolic, the director of the Serb-run Susica Detention Camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in November 1994. He was accused of committing crimes against non-Serbs, including sexual violence and (More) |
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Bosnia court releases war crimes convicts following Europe rights court ruling
The Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) state war crimes court on Tuesday released 10 prisoners connected to war crimes committed during the Bosnian Civil War following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) . Six of these individuals wer (More) |
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Prosecution of War Crimes Will Not End the Conflict in Syria
JURIST Guest Columnist Leslie Esbrook, Yale Law School Class of 2015, shows how the current international framework applies to recent international conflicts... (More) |
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Former Bosnian prison camp guard extradited by US judge
A US magistrate judge on Monday certified the extradition of former Bosnian prison guard Almaz Nezirovic to his native country to face war-crimes charges. Judge Robert Ballou, presiding over the US District Court for the Western District of Virgini (More) |
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Former head of Bosnian Serb parliament released from prison
Momcilo Krajisnik [ICTY materials; JURIST news archive], the former speaker for the Bosnian Serb parliament, returned to Bosnia Friday after being released from prison. Krajisnik, arrested in 2000, was convicted in 2006 by the International Crimina (More) |
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Bosnia police chief sentenced to 14 years for war crimes
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday sentenced Goran Saric, a former police chief, to 14 years for crimes against humanity. His charges specifically involved detention, forced transfer and murder of civilian Bosniak population of Sara (More) |
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UN judges reinstate genocide charges against Karadzic
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday unanimously reversed the acquittal of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic [ICTY case summary, PDF; JURIST news archive] for a genocide (More) |
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ICTY grants early release to former head of the Bosnian Serb parliament
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday, granted early release to Momcilo Krajisnik [ICTY materials, JURIST news archive], the former head of the Bosnian Serb parliament who was convicted in 2006 of the per (More) |
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ICC Suspects Can Hide — and That Is the Problem
JURIST Guest Columnists Richard Dicker and Elizabeth Evenson of the Human Rights Watch argue that the efficacy of the International Criminal Court depends upon international efforts to apprehend criminals...The International Criminal Court (ICC) has (More) |
Women lawyers allowed to practice before US Supreme Court
On February 15, 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed legislation allowing women to be admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Belva Lockwood became the first woman admitted to practice under the new law on March 3, 1879.
Learn more about Belva Lockwood.
