Aldo Zammit Borda
About/Bio
Aldo Zammit Borda is Reader in Law at City, University of London. He obtained his PhD from Trinity College Dublin and completed a postdoc at King’s College London. Prior to joining academia, Aldo served as First Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malta, and as Legal Editor in the Rule of Law Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat.
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Applications for Arrest Warrants in the Situation in Palestine: In Defence of the Legal Process
July 2, 2024
Aldo Zammit Borda
The recent announcement by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) seeking arrest warrants for leaders of both Israel and Hamas has sent shockwaves through the region. Unlike last year’s similar action against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, which received widespread approval from Western states, the ICC Prosecutor’s application…
Reproductive Violence in International Criminal Law and the ICC OTP’s Revised Policy on Gender-Based Crimes: An Emerging Concept
December 22, 2023
Aldo Zammit Borda
We are on the cusp of a new concept emerging in international criminal justice (ICJ): reproductive violence. While the broader concept of reproductive rights is well-known, and has a long and fraught history in domestic and international human rights law (for instance, Center for Reproductive Rights), the narrower concept of reproductive violence occurring in contexts…
A litmus test for international justice: If not for the Yazidis, then for whom?
March 17, 2023
Aldo Zammit Borda
Yazidi tradition recounts that, before the Daesh attack in 2014, the Yazidis had suffered seventy-two large-scale persecutions in their history. To a large extent, in the past, they faced these attacks alone, with little hope of external support. But given that the 2014 genocide took place in the age of international justice – the age of the…
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Popular articles by Aldo Zammit Borda
Reproductive Violence in International Criminal Law and the ICC OTP’s Revised Policy on Gender-Based Crimes: An Emerging Concept
December 22, 2023
Aldo Zammit Borda
We are on the cusp of a new concept emerging in international criminal justice (ICJ): reproductive violence. While the broader concept of reproductive rights is well-known, and has a long and fraught history in domestic and international human rights law (for instance, Center for Reproductive Rights), the narrower concept of reproductive violence occurring in contexts…
The Situation in Afghanistan, US Sanctions and the Historical Narratives Emerging from the ICC
June 24, 2020
Aldo Zammit Borda
On 11 June 2020, the US announced a series of economic and travel sanctions against any officials of the ICC involved in an investigation into whether US forces committed war crimes related to the Afghan conflict (see here). The ICC Appeals Chamber had previously authorised the ICC Prosecutor to commence such an investigation (see…
A litmus test for international justice: If not for the Yazidis, then for whom?
March 17, 2023
Aldo Zammit Borda
Yazidi tradition recounts that, before the Daesh attack in 2014, the Yazidis had suffered seventy-two large-scale persecutions in their history. To a large extent, in the past, they faced these attacks alone, with little hope of external support. But given that the 2014 genocide took place in the age of international justice – the age of the…