Devasheesh Bais

Lawyer; CILRAP Fellow. Tweets on international justice, data privacy law and AI regulation.

[Coalition for International Criminal Justice @_cicj_]

‘Safeguarding Prosecutorial Independence and the Standing of the International Criminal Court: Article 46(1) Should Be Amended’, #CICJ Statement 7 (https://t.co/O2efxIYyvx): The Assembly of States Parties of the @IntlCrimCourt must be properly equipped to protect the Court.

[Medha Damojipurapu @MDamojipurapu]

Pleased to share my new policy brief: ‘The International Law Prohibition Against Transfer of Civilians into Occupied Territory: Western Sahara and Northern Cyprus’ (https://t.co/KUZkehUbsI…), published by #TOAEP. Huge thanks to @_CMN_ @MortenBergsmo @_AntonioAngotti @dvbais

[Morten Bergsmo @MortenBergsmo]

Invaluable new resource for both domestic and international actors: ‘Quality Control in Fraud and Corruption Investigations’ (eds. Willems, @carstenstahn, Frey and Angotti, 288 pp.), one-click open access (https://t.co/xo1kDOjmvV). Note https://t.co/zBzj4Wtinl. #TOAEP #CILRAP

[Morten Bergsmo @MortenBergsmo]

Dr. Song Tianying's award-winning monograph ‘Legal Construction of Common Humanity: Human Agency in a Cosmopolitan War Crimes Law’ on ICL’s mobilizing force: can it align motivations of both the global public and participants in war? https://t.co/4aQFMCb6dl. #TOAEP #CILRAP

[Coalition for International Criminal Justice @_cicj_]

NGOs can be important partners in atrocity documentation: https://t.co/qd9OPGIre1 urges them to adhere to best interviewing practices, legal analysis and information security, and refrain from seeing documentation as a monetary or political commodity. #UniversalJurisdiction

[CILRAP @_CMN_]

‘Preliminary Thoughts on the Argentine Universal Jurisdiction Case Against Aung San Suu Kyi’ (@DerekTonkinUK) and ‘Torkel Opsahl and Peace in Northern Ireland’ (@andyjpollak): #UniversalJurisdiction should not feed injustice (169); 168 on #TOAEP eponym (https://t.co/EJPjuTeBF9).

[CILRAP @_CMN_]

New #TOAEP policy briefs ‘On the Residual Functions of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of #Cambodia’ (Andre Kwok, No. 166) and ‘On the Rise of Universal Criminal Justice’ (Lucia Leontiev, 167): https://t.co/EJPjuTeBF9. #ECCC #Legacy #KhmerRouge #AsianLaw #ASEAN #CILRAP

[CILRAP @_CMN_]

In his ‘Assuring Integrity: Challenges in the ICC Independent Oversight Mechanism’, Dr. Ezequiel Jimenez explains why the legally-binding integrity standard must be at the centre of ICC State-Party oversight: https://t.co/eOGsaB981N (No. 165). #IntegrityInJustice #TOAEP #CILRAP

[CILRAP @_CMN_]

‘What Is Arakan? Territory, Historical Geography and the Ethno-National Dissent in Myanmar’s Rakhine State’ (by @LeiJacq) contextualizes fundamental challenges in #Rakhine as the #AA nears territorial control: https://t.co/EJPjuTeBF9 (No. 164). #Myanmar #Rohingya #TOAEP #CILRAP

[CILRAP @_CMN_]

Four new policy briefs now available in #TOAEP’s thematic cluster on #Islam_Accountability at https://t.co/EJPjuTeBF9: #Bangladesh (No. 160), #Mali (161), #Sudan (162) and #Indonesia (163) by insightful and diverse authors – more coming (always concise at four pages). #CILRAP

[CILRAP @_CMN_]

At #TOAEP's https://t.co/EJPjuTeBF9: 'Three Pivotal Norwegian Cases on Sámi Rights' (H.S. Lile), 'Towards an International Crime of Ecocide' (D. Bertram), 'Sudanese Despair and International Failure, 2003–2024: No Way Out?' (J.J. Savelsberg). #Islam_Accountability #Ecocide #ASP23

[CILRAP @_CMN_]

‘Iran’s Crimes in the #Syrian Conflict’ (Malik al-Abdeh and @LarsHauch) and ‘Patterns of Core International Crimes in #Libya: Challenges to Accountability’ (@KathIliopoulos), two concise policy briefs at https://t.co/EJPjuTeBF9. #Islam_Accountability #Iran #Syria #TOAEP #CILRAP

[CILRAP @_CMN_]

CILRAP-CMN is delighted to share @CIGE_Duhok's Progress Report, which narrates their work investigating #ISIS crimes in Sinjar & Ninevah. @_CMN_ & GRC have engaged with CIGE since 2021 to strengthen their evidence management, analysis & outreach work.

https://t.co/qTdaln48uZ

[CILRAP @_CMN_]

New #TOAEP policy brief ‘Universal Jurisdiction Under Threat of Hostage-Taking: Sweden’s Release of Iranian War Criminal Nouri’ by @Klamberg (https://t.co/EJPjuTeBF9, No. 153, always concise at 4 pages): could hostage-taking end up neutralizing universal jurisdiction? #CILRAP

[Morten Bergsmo @MortenBergsmo]

Prof. David Luban receives the 2022 M.C. Bassiouni Justice Award for his remarkable scholarship over 45 years: https://t.co/QKnTlDf4mx. My policy brief ‘Peace and Reconciliation Diplomacy Challenged by Religious Hatred, Dissimulation and Denial’: https://t.co/enJU97v5k0. #CILRAP

[CILRAP @_CMN_]

‘Towards a Crimes Against Humanity Convention’ by #CILRAP Research Fellow Dr. David Donat Cattin argues for a UN General Assembly resolution this year “mandating an inter-governmental forum" for a #CrimesAgainstHumanity convention: https://t.co/vsYN0vSekv. #CAHTreatyNow #TOAEP

[CILRAP @_CMN_]

Dr. Benjamin P. Davis’ #CILRAP Conversation on his book ‘Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics’ (https://t.co/SIbdolJYX6): 'European colonialism' v. slave-economies, 'colonial wrongs' and the role of international lawyers, a 'right to opacity'.

[CILRAP @_CMN_]

UK Amb. Tonkin’s policy brief ‘A Critical Analysis of the IIMM Report on Anti-Rohingya Hate Speech’ (https://t.co/JokqRyAkYk): lowering the international hate speech bar to include common insults risks eroding respect for ‘international standards’. #Myanmar #Sprachregulierung

[Coalition for International Criminal Justice @_cicj_]

'Lady Justice Blindfolded, Not ICC States Parties’: https://t.co/4OiFUyYs6e invites States Parties to govern the @IntlCrimCourt more incisively by “asking the Court the right questions, about important issues, at the right time”, using domestic judicial-administration experts.

[CILRAP @_CMN_]

If you missed this x-ray, constructive critique of ICC State-Party governance the last three years, you have one-click access to the four pages here: