Donald Trump’s ‘law and order’ campaign: A tried and tested strategy

In US history, moments of protest and dissent have often been met with calls to reinstate ‘law and order’. The presidential election will be a test of President Trump’s ‘law and order’ politics.

Chase Burton • November 03, 2020

The Black Panther Party: Freedom Fighters or Radicalists?

The Black Panther Party was a political organization in the United States during the 1960s-1980s. Labelled the greatest threat to internal security by the FBI, the Party was primarily focused on monitoring police officer behaviour through Panther Patrols and running community survival programs.

Kelsey Engstrom • October 10, 2019

Is fragmentation an issue or an exception? Analysis of the Tadic and Bosnian Genocide cases

Fragmentation occurs when international proceedings that involve the same parties and raise the same issues arrive at different conclusions. The conflict in the ICTY’s Tadic decision and the ICJ’s Bosnian Genocide decision – an issue or an exception?

Andrea Samardzija • June 17, 2019

The motives for the period of office in the PCIJ and their implementation in the ICJ today

In recent years, elections of judges to the ICJ have shown their political side. States try to place their candidates for the term of nine years. This entry investigates how this period of office evolved and still influences the work of the court.

Laura Kreft • May 20, 2019

100th anniversary of Wetboek van Strafrecht voor Nederlandsch-Indie

A century after the implementation of the WvSNI (the Netherland Indies criminal code), the Indonesian parliament wants to replace Dutch colonial inheritance in the criminal code with a new code, which recognises so-called Indonesian “values”.

Fachrizal Afandi • January 11, 2018 • 4 comments

The ethical dimension of ancient laws

Due to the inclusion of unwritten laws, surviving from the Stone Age, the (pre-Hammurabi) Sumerian legal system was surprisingly liberal. We can still learn from it, now that our system has caused the ethical dimension to wither – with dire consequences.

Wim Bonis • November 10, 2017 • 4 comments

Law making by way of preliminary reference

The preliminary reference procedure is not a modern invention. It has travelled a long way through time and space – from southern to northern Europe, from Roman imperial times to the 21st century.

Elsemieke Daalder and Ruben de Graaff • March 30, 2015 • 2 comments

The death penalty in medieval Nuremberg

The death penalty is running out of favour. The legal argument is, among others, that erroneous judgments are irrevocable. Moral arguments include the sanctity of human life. Economically, the death penalty leads to high costs. These arguments are not new.

Joop de Kort • December 12, 2014

Proscription and the redistribution of wealth by the Roman Emperor

How to gain the support of your subjects after a civil war? A judicial solution to a political problem.

Elsemieke Daalder • July 21, 2014 • 1 comment

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