The Genocide Convention and the ICJ: Further developments

In the first 68 years of being in force, the Genocide Convention was only the subject of three cases before the ICJ. In the last four and half years, this has changed dramatically: with four new cases brought against four new States. These cases – brought by The Gambia, Ukraine, South Africa and Nicaragua – raise a number of legal issues, have given rise to the most number of third party interventions ever seen in the ICJ, and advance understandings of many issues including construction of the Genocide Convention and the powers of the Court to order provisional measures.

This webinar was presented on Tuesday 26 March 2024.

Panellists:
- Associate Professor Melanie O’Brien (President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Associate Professor, UWA)
- Professor Bill Campbell AO PSM QC (Honorary Professor ANU, head of the Office of International Law at AGD (1996-2016) and former counsel for Australia before the ICJ and ITLOS)

Commentator:
- Professor Donald R. Rothwell (Professor of International Law, ANU)

Chair:
- Associate Professor Imogen Saunders (Director, Centre for International and Public Law, ANU)