Bruno de Oliveira Biazatti
About/Bio
Bruno Biazatti is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. He is a PhD candidate at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. His research focuses on the international codification on crimes against humanity and the contribution of Latin America therein.
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Overcoming the Backlog in the Initial Review of Petitions in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
October 27, 2023
Bruno de Oliveira Biazatti
Human rights systems may be victims of their own success, as they can become dysfunctional under the unbearable weight of their massive caseloads. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Commission or IACHR) has faced this challenge in the past two decades with regard to the enormous backlog of pending applications in the Initial Review, the first phase of…
The Ljubljana – The Hague Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance: Was the Gap Closed?
26 May 2023 was a historical day for the fight against impunity for the most serious crimes of concern to the international community. On that day, a Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries, held in the city of Ljubljana, Slovenia, between 15 and 26 May, adopted by consensus the Ljubljana – The Hague Convention on International Cooperation…
The ICC Prosecutor Releases Guidelines for Agreements Regarding Admission of Guilt
December 14, 2020
Bruno de Oliveira Biazatti
On 12 November 2020, the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) released its Guidelines for Agreements Regarding Admission of Guilt (the Guidelines). The document represents the most recent mile on a long and bumpy road headed towards the consolidation of negotiated justice in International Criminal Law. Since plea bargaining anywhere (but…
Popular articles by Bruno de Oliveira Biazatti
The Ljubljana – The Hague Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance: Was the Gap Closed?
26 May 2023 was a historical day for the fight against impunity for the most serious crimes of concern to the international community. On that day, a Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries, held in the city of Ljubljana, Slovenia, between 15 and 26 May, adopted by consensus the Ljubljana – The Hague Convention on International Cooperation…
The ICC Prosecutor Releases Guidelines for Agreements Regarding Admission of Guilt
December 14, 2020
Bruno de Oliveira Biazatti
On 12 November 2020, the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) released its Guidelines for Agreements Regarding Admission of Guilt (the Guidelines). The document represents the most recent mile on a long and bumpy road headed towards the consolidation of negotiated justice in International Criminal Law. Since plea bargaining anywhere (but…
Overcoming the Backlog in the Initial Review of Petitions in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
October 27, 2023
Bruno de Oliveira Biazatti
Human rights systems may be victims of their own success, as they can become dysfunctional under the unbearable weight of their massive caseloads. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Commission or IACHR) has faced this challenge in the past two decades with regard to the enormous backlog of pending applications in the Initial Review, the first phase of…