Jeremy Pizzi
About/Bio
Jeremy Pizzi, B.C.L./J.D. (McGill), is a Canadian lawyer currently working as a Legal Advisor at Global Rights Compliance. As a member of the Mobile Justice Teams, he is currently assisting conflict-related investigations and prosecutions of international crimes. He was previously a legal consultant with the Canadian Partnership for International Justice. He has worked in Defence and in Chambers at the International Criminal Court. He has also worked for the United Nations Mine Action Service.
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Governments’ Démarche against the ECtHR: Room for Discussion or Threats to Judicial Integrity
Recently, the leaders of nine European states, out of 46 Council of Europe members, issued a joint statement calling for a fundamental revision of the interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR’) on immigration issues. Initially pioneered by Italy and Denmark, and supported by Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, the…
Nationality as the basis of protected status under Geneva Convention IV: A mysterious case of mistaken death
For a civilian caught up in the crossfire of an international armed conflict, determining protected status under international humanitarian law (‘IHL’) represents more than a theoretical exercise of distant intellectualisation by jurists. It takes centre stage in the trenches of suffering, and is arbiter in deciding who receives the full protection of the Fourth Geneva Convention (‘GC IV’)…
Popular articles by Jeremy Pizzi
Nationality as the basis of protected status under Geneva Convention IV: A mysterious case of mistaken death
For a civilian caught up in the crossfire of an international armed conflict, determining protected status under international humanitarian law (‘IHL’) represents more than a theoretical exercise of distant intellectualisation by jurists. It takes centre stage in the trenches of suffering, and is arbiter in deciding who receives the full protection of the Fourth Geneva Convention (‘GC IV’)…
Governments’ Démarche against the ECtHR: Room for Discussion or Threats to Judicial Integrity
Recently, the leaders of nine European states, out of 46 Council of Europe members, issued a joint statement calling for a fundamental revision of the interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR’) on immigration issues. Initially pioneered by Italy and Denmark, and supported by Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, the…