Gregory Gordon (lawyer)
Gregory S. Gordon is an American scholar of
Media Case at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Gordon is known for his advocacy of the criminalization under international law of a broader category of speech likely to cause mass atrocities (more broad than incitement to genocide
), and his book Atrocity Speech Law in which he advances this argument.
Career
Gordon worked for the
Media Case,[1] [2] and the Office of Special Investigations. During his academic career, he was the director of University of North Dakota's Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies and worked for the Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention.[3] He currently works for the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law.[4]
Views
Gordon supports establishing a new category of international law, which he terms "atrocity speech law", which would expand prosecutable offenses. The category would be more broad than
war crimes or crimes against humanity as an inchoate offense, which would be prosecutable even if the crimes ordered never took place. Gordon also supports the criminalization of incitement of war crimes and crimes against humanity.[1][5] He supports the prosecution of people who are guilty of atrocity speech, and argues that international criminal law has a deterrent effect on those who are contemplating committing mass murder.[1] Gordon has said that "if you don't prosecute the purveyors of these horrible messages, then you will definitely be looking at another genocide down the road".[6] He supported the prosecution of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for incitement to genocide.[7]
Atrocity Speech Law
Gordon's book Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition which is about extreme hate speech in international law, was published by
Einsatzgruppen Trial, wrote the foreword to the book.[9]
Works
- Gordon, Gregory S. (2017). Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-061270-2.
References
- ^ a b c d e Van Landingham, Rachel (March 29, 2018). "Punishing Tomorrow's Tweeting Goebbels". Lawfare. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
- ^ https://www.icc-cpi.int/node/194159
- ^ "Professor Gregory Gordon joins the Sentinel Project as advisor on hate speech". Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention. 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
- ^ "Gregory S. Gordon: Centre for International Law Research and Policy". www.cilrap.org. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
- ^ Gordon, Gregory S. (2011–2012). "Formulating a New Atrocity Speech Offense: Incitement to Commit War Crimes". Loyola University Chicago Law Journal. 43: 281.
- ^ "Gregory S. Gordon". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. May 21, 2009. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
- JSTOR 40042789.
- ISSN 1085-794X.
- Simon, David J. (July 13, 2017). "Comments on Atrocity Speech Law by Gregory Gordon". Opinio Juris. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
- Westbury, Daniel (2018). "Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition". University of Tasmania Law Review. 37: 89.
- Lingaas, Carola (June 2018). "Gregory Gordon, Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition". Human Rights Law Review. 18 (2): 396–401. .
- Li, Quan (2017–2018). "Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition". George Washington International Law Review. 50: 447.
- Zucchi, Sam (2018). "Atrocity Speech Law". Osgoode Hall Law Journal. 55: 599.
- Timmermann, Wibke K (December 2018). "Gregory S. Gordon, Richard Ashby Wilson". Journal of International Criminal Justice. 16 (5): 1117–1120. .
- Meier, David A (2019). "Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, FruitionGregory S. Gordon". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 33 (1): 141–143. .
- Rajan, Sanoj. "Atrocity Speech Law, Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition". ISIL Year Book of International Humanitarian and Refugee Law. 16–17: 391.
- ^ Gordon 2017.