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Scenario

When academic partners question whether international law scholarship serves victims

My research partner and I study war crimes prosecution and we're realizing that our academic work on closing accountability gaps might be completely disconnected from what victims' communities actually want and we don't know how to reconcile publishing in international law journals with the possibility that we're just participating in a system that performs justice without delivering it.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two researchers are confronting the tension between academic contribution and meaningful impact in international justice.

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Juana
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with International law and its limits?”

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