There's a bad habit becoming very common place in this our fast paced, technology & AI driven world. Impatience with long write-ups or better put mentally engaging write-ups and tasks too.
I've caught myself scrolling past an intelligent post that will make me think and settling for a junk article which may not be in itself bad but I know that making a habit of such in the long run will rob me of vital information concerning topical issues in my environment and career.
I can't count the number of times a random knowledge I acquired reading through an intelligent piece online has been an intelligent save when asked a question or contributing to a conversation publicly or even amongst friends.
Sometimes I bookmark with the intent of reading later and sincerely forget. The reading list is getting longer... 😩
To help myself and a number of others I know are on this table, weekly I'll be having knowledge sharing posts from what I read, my work or current research.
I've really gained choice knowledge from posts by Ayodele Ashiata Kadiri , Davidson Oturu and Emmanuel J. Samaila on LinkedIn. There are others too but they stand out for me. This is also my way of appreciating them for the educating and insightful content you put out here. Thank you.
While I try to read quite widely, just to know a little about everything, what I will mostly share here will be in the area of my interests- International law, human rights, labor law, criminal justice, public policy and Climate Justice.
However I could still once in a while put out knowledge I've gained outside these areas here to 'spaiz' up things.
So for today, I'm going to share a publication I co-authored with Prof Godwin Okeke who was my IHL lecturer and LLM supervisor. During one of our classes that year he told me to do a research on Matters Arising from the International Criminal Court Jurisdiction: The African Perspective. I jumped on this because it was controversial (I like controversy in academia/research as it helps a lot to get to the root of things) and very relatable.
I ended up co-authoring it with him and it was published in International Review of Law and Jurisprudence. The context 👇
The International Criminal Court (ICC) established by Art 1 of the Rome Statute of 1998 is vested with powers to exercise it's jurisdiction over persons for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, aggression. However since its establishment in 2002, all the cases investigated so far are related to situations in Africa. This raises the question of whether the ICC has an African prosecution bias. Does it?
Happy reading. Feast your eyes, engage and enrich your mind. I look forward to your feedback on it after. This is the link below:
https://lnkd.in/d2vfsviE
Professor of Computer Science and Law, Emeritus, at Rutgers University
5moIt looks like the title is "International Congress" not "Conference ". The latter would likely be confused with ICAIL, which has been in existence since 1987.