James A. Goldston is the executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative. From 2007–2008 he served as coordinator of prosecutions at the International Criminal Court.
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James A. Goldston
Commentaries by James A. Goldston
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Who’s Afraid of Europe’s Human-Rights Court?
SOFIA – At a time when the ongoing European debt crisis is fracturing public faith in the continent’s political and economic institutions, o…
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What’s Wrong with Ethnic Profiling?
BRUSSELS – Several years ago, as terrorism, immigration, and unrest in suburban Paris were at the top of the news in France, a French police…
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African Misrule on Trial
THE HAGUE – As the world focuses on the inauguration of America’s first black president and celebrates an important milestone in the ongoing…
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Judgment in Phnom Penh
Three decades after the Khmer Rouge killed a quarter of Cambodia’s seven million people, a court to try the most responsible surviving leade…
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Europe’s High Court Confronts Racism
The European Court of Human Rights is hearing oral arguments in two of the most important cases in its history. As in Brown v. Board of Edu…
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The Khmer Rouge in the Dock
These days suspected war criminals - from Rwanda to Serbia to Sierra Leone - are in the dock. Dozens are still on the run, but hope remains …
