Milena Sterio

Milena Sterio is The Charles R. Emrick Jr. – Calfee Halter & Griswold Professor of Law at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and Managing Director at the Public International Law and Policy Group. Milena specializes in international law, human rights, and international criminal law, and is the author of numerous law review articles and seven books. Her latest book, Syrian Conflict’s Impact on International Law, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. Milena currently serves as Co-Chair of the Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Interest Group at the American Society of International Law, and Chair of the National Security Law Section at the American Association of Law Schools.

Ongwen blog symposium: Precedent on the Prosecution of Juvenile Offenders for International Crimes

By Milena Sterio / April 12, 2021

On Feb. 4, 2021, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted Dominic Ongwen of 61 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes. Ongwen was a Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) member whose culpability appears doubtless – he had been accused of numerous atrocities, including brutal acts of sexual violence, and I have seen no commentary questioning …

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