Universal Jurisdiction

Addressing widespread impunity and various failed efforts to establish criminal responsibility for enforced disappearance.

The Assad atrocities have long served as a painful example of the limits of international justice, but there is now a chance to change that.

A trial in Finland of a commander for the Wagner affiliate Rusich could reshape the legal framework for accountability in such cases.

The DOJ must lead by example and use its discretion to divert at least a portion of the seized $687 million in Lafarge to non-U.S. victims of ISIS and ANF.

Syrian victims continue to look forward to a fair political solution that ends the dictatorship, paves the way for transitional justice, allows the displaced to return to their…

It is the Syrian community that should answer key questions about any fund’s design and purpose, including the victim class it serves, the type of support it provides, when it…

A Dutch court recently convicted a man of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Syrian civil war.

Charges against a Syrian man accused of committing atrocity crimes could set important legal precedents for future cases in the Netherlands.

With the "Pinochet Precedent," the principle of universal jurisdiction can provide justice for victims of other dictatorial regimes.

The increasingly polarized debate over the tribunal’s institutional design – international or hybrid – goes to the heart, and core purpose, of international criminal justice,…

Congress can bring justice for victims of crimes against humanity by passing a statute with universal jurisdiction.

"With its liberal interpretation of French law, the Cour de cassation narrowly saved the doctrine of universal jurisdiction in France, particularly for crimes in Syria."