International Criminal Law

Andrea Russell, who teaches International Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law as well as being executive director of the Office of the Dean, has published a commentary in Nepal's The Kathmandu Post encouraging Nepal to join the International Criminal Court. Russell recently returned from Nepal, where she was advising the legal profession on joining the court ("Matter of fact," Feb. 29, 2012).

Read the full article in The Kathmandu Post.

The International Criminal Court Prosecutor's visit to the Faculty of Law has received considerable attention in Canadian media. Luis Moreno-Ocampo was at the Faculty in conjunction with the screening of the film Prosecutor on Monday Nov.

Panel discussion after the screening of Prosecutor, with (L-R) Renu Mandhane (Director of the International Human Rights Program), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Stephen Lewis, and Barry Stevens (Director of Prosecutor). 

by Andrew Max (2L)

(L-R) Andrew Max (2L), Renu Mandhane (Director of the International Human Rights Program), Dean Mayo Moran, Luis Moreno-Ocampo (Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court), Andrea Russell (Executive Director of the Dean’s Office, instructor in International Criminal Law).

By Jacqueline Labine, 2L

“Canada 2020: The Future of Public Interest Law” was the 2011 theme for the annual Student Public Interest Network Legal Action Workshop (SPINLAW), held March 12, 2011 at the Faculty of Law.

Organized by students from the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall law schools, SPINLAW creates a forum for students, local activists and community members to share their experiences and perspectives on current social justice issues.

Andrea Russell, executive director of the Dean's Office, has written a commentary in the Ottawa Citizen about the rise of international criminal law in recent years ("International justice has arrived," May 28, 2011). Russell teaches a course in International Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law.

Read the full commentary.

The journal New Criminal Law Review (14:3, 2011) has published a print symposium on Alan Brudner's Punishment and Freedom: A Liberal Theory of Penal Law (Oxford 2009). The symposium features comments by prominent international scholars Thom Brooks, Shai Lavi, Alan Norrie, Alice Ristroph, and Mariana Valverde, plus a reply by the author.

See the issue on JSTOR.

War criminals can no longer count on a private jet waiting to whisk them off to a golden life in exile

By: Andrea Russell

Andrea Russell is executive director of the Office of the Dean at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and teaches International Criminal Law at the Faculty.

This commentary was first published in the Ottawa Citizen on May 28, 2011. It was also published in the Montreal Gazette and the Regina Leader-Post.