Black Internationalism and International Criminal Justice

In-person event

What are the possibilities of international criminal justice being informed by epistemologies that emerged from Black and African intellectuals’ historical engagement with the concept of ‘justice’? This paper responds with an intervention rooted in Black internationalism focusing on Pan-Africanist thinkers. The goals are threefold.

First, it tentatively presents ways to take Black intellectuals seriously as progenitors of ‘justice’ that should inform, agitate, and expand the concept within international law. Second, the paper analysed how the architecture of international criminal justice and its primary actors (mis)align with those imaginaries of justice and its myriad approaches and visions. Finally, the paper concludes by offering a remapping and reimagining of justice and its emancipatory impulse through these expansive intellectual historiographies.

About the speaker

Dr Yassin Brunger (Queen’s University Belfast)

Yassin Brunger is Lecturer in Human Rights Law at Queen’s University, Belfast and a Fellow of Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the IILAH (University of Melbourne) completing a book project entitled Narratives of Justice: The Relationship between the International Criminal Court and the UN Security Council (contracted with Cambridge University Press).

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Tuesday 16 May 2023

Time: 1-2pm AEST
Venue: TBA
CPD Points: 1

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This event is hosted by the Sydney Centre for International Law at The University of Sydney Law School.