The first episode of our new podcast is out! It is a snack-sized 29 minute dive on “The US Campaign to Dismantle the ICC”. With Kalika Mehta and 2 guests directly affected by sanctions. From the RSS, under “Listen On” you can launch in your favourite app! rss.com/podcasts/the...

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The Unwritten Journal is a podcast brought to you by the team behind the Journal of International Criminal Justice.

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I am thrilled to share a new podcast, “The Unwritten Journal”, by the team behind the Journal of International Criminal Justice. Our trailer is out. The first episode will come out next week, about the US campaign to dismantle the ICC and it is a great episode! rss.com/podcasts/the...

The Unwritten Journal | Podcast on RSS.com

The Unwritten Journal is a podcast brought to you by the team behind the Journal of International Criminal Justice.

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Why the Trump Administration is Pushing States to Quit the ICC, and How Member States Can Push Back https://www.justsecurity.org/153955/rubio-wants-help-dismantling-icc/

Other Countries Should Not Help Rubio Dismantle the ICC

The United States’ bid for support in its fight against the ICC creates an opportunity to push back on its attempt to dismantle the Court.

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In this post, I welcome critiques by Matthew Gillett and Rohit Gupta and I offer essential clarifications. I urge ecocide literature to engage better with environmental ethics and empirical dimensions, to generate more effective reforms to protect the environment. opiniojuris.org/2026/08/17/t...

The Improved Ecocide Conversation Begins

[Darryl Robinson is a Professor at Queen’s University, Faculty of Law (Canada)] Matthew Gillett and Rohit Gupta make several excellent points in their two-part response (here and here) to my two ne…

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How are international law experts reading Secretary Marco Rubio's op-ed on dismantling the International Criminal Court? Eliav Lieblich (@eliavl.bsky.social) & Tom Dannenbaum (@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social) analyze its claims in the context of international and U.S. law and long-standing U.S. practice

In Context: Analyzing Secretary Rubio's International Criminal Court Op-Ed

International law scholars address some of the factual claims and underlying assumptions in Secretary Rubio's op-ed on dismantling the ICC.

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The IJHR has just published the companion article to my recent article on #ecocide and ecocentrism. This newer article urges ecocide scholars to engage better with challenges of sustainability. By doing so we can generate new ideas to improve the law. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JIPWF...

A challenge for ecocide scholarship: engaging with science, survival, and the scope of criminal law

This article poses two challenges for current ecocide scholarship. Numerous well-intentioned scholars insist that all severe harm should be criminalized outright, without reference to environmental...

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For those following ecocide, here is my new article “Humans Matter Too: A Misanthropic Misunderstanding of Ecocentrism is Derailing the Ecocide Debate”. The oversimplification misses the hard debate: how to accommodate human survival and health of all species. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Humans matter too: a misanthropic misunderstanding of ecocentrism is derailing the ecocide debate

In this article, I unpack the extremely widespread misuse of the terms ‘anthropocentric’ and ‘ecocentric’ that has spread like a virus throughout the current ecocide literature. Numerous scholars d...

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Here is a post I did on EJIL:Talk!, posing three questions about the simpler stances on ecocide. Regardless of what one thinks, these are issues that should be discussed. I raise them in the hopes that we find some new ideas for the trickiest problems. www.ejiltalk.org/ecocide-a-ca...

Ecocide: A Call to Discuss Some Hard Conundrums

Following a proposal by Vanuatu, the crime of ecocide will be discussed on the margins of the ICC Assembly of States Parties (December 3-7).   Subsequent deliberations could be informative for the …

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