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09.09.2021

Conference on 'Corporate Social Responsibility in the Netherlands' (November 12th 10:30-16:30)

The regulation of multinational corporations, especially in situations of negative impact, poses challenging questions. This conference, organised by the Open Universiteit, will address these questions from a Dutch and comparative perspective. Current developments show a transformation of voluntary and sector driven guidelines into legally binding CSR obligations that have extraterritorial application. What will this mean for corporations and the people impacted by their conduct?

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24.08.2021

Conference on the 'Transformative effects of COVID-19 on Globalisation & Law' (Online conference - September 16-17 2021)

It is hard to name an area of life that the Coronavirus pandemic has not affected – from travelling to doing groceries and from grieving to global politics. Some of the effects are more transient, others are here to stay: the pandemic will have had transformative effects in a number of domains – but which? And in particular, what about law? The research cooperation Transformative effects of Globalisation in Law has invited fellow scholars for an online zoom conference on the 16th and 17th of September to discuss these issues.

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01.04.2021

Secondary liability and accountability for crimes committed within the Syrian conflict (online seminar - June 18th 15:00-17:00)

The armed conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic, one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the world, has been ongoing for a decade. Human rights violations of such a large scale can only take place with a great network of support. Rethinking SLIC* invites you to join us on June 18th 2021 at a seminar on modes of secondary liability for crimes committed within the Syrian conflict.

News
08.03.2021

Three-minute video pitch of Joëlle Trampert's research

Joëlle Trampert recently recorded a video with the Amsterdam Law Hub about her research on State responsibility for complicity in serious human rights violations.

News
15.01.2021

Money as Complicity - The role of banks in international crimes (4 March 15:00 – 18:00)

Money is often at the centre of international crimes and grave human rights violations. Financial gain drives criminality, while financial support enables it. Banks and financial institutions frequently find themselves at the confluence of this monetary flow and may even contribute to human rights abuses when they provide financial services or financing to wrongful actors.

News
28.10.2020

Göran Sluiter participates in Amicus brief in child labour case against Nestlé at U.S. Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is currently considering ending a lawsuit that claims Nestlé facilitated the use of child slave labour on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast, a case that could further limit access to U.S. courts by victims of human rights abuses abroad. Rethinking SLIC*’s Göran Sluiter, along with other international lawyers and scholars, submitted an Amicus brief to the Supreme Court in which they advocate for a broad interpretation of the Alien Tort Statue.

News
09.07.2020

Jindan-Karena Mann on ThinkTech Hawaii

Jindan-Karena Mann recently was on the show ThinkTech Hawaii to talk about serious human rights violations and how corporations could be held accountable for their role in them.

News
20.03.2020

New Article on Disguised Extradition

In reaction to the recent news coverage of the cases of Julio Poch and Ridouan T., Göran Sluiter discusses some ‘grey’ areas, especially disguised extradition, in international
cooperation in criminal matters in the law journal NJB (Nederlands Juristenblad, in Dutch). 

Read the article on Navigator.

 

News
06.02.2020

New Researcher Ahmad Al Zien

Ahmad Al Zien started last month as a researcher with his individual project 'Secondary Liability for International Crimes – Case Study of Syria'. His 18-month appointment is being funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Through this programme, project leaders of NWO-funded research projects can request additional funding to hire a refugee to work on their project. The Amsterdam Law School published a news article about Ahmad's project.

 

News
24.01.2020

First Expert Group Meeting

On 16 and 17 January the Expert Group of the Rethinking SLIC project gathered for the first time in Amsterdam. On the first day, all the participants came to the faculty room of the Amsterdam Law School for a plenary session. The principal investigator of the project, Göran Sluiter, first briefly introduced the project, after which he and Sergey Vasiliev elaborated on some practical aspects of the project as well as lessons learned from their previous project ‘International Criminal Procedure: Principles and Rules’ which used a similar structure to that of the current one.

News
05.12.2019

New PhD Candidates Marc Tiernan and Nicky Touw

This week Marc Tiernan and Nicky Touw joined the team as PhD candidates. A warm welcome to both!

News
18.11.2019

Göran Sluiter amicus curiae in ICC Afghanistan situation

Göran Sluiter and Kate Mackintosh have submitted their amicus curiae observations to the ICC concerning the Afghanistan situation. They argue that the pre-trial chamber's decision is not consistent with internationally recognized human rights and violates art. 21(3) of the statute.

The observations can be accessed on https://www.icc-cpi.int/CourtRecords/CR2019_07006.PDF

 

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