Gregory S Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 6544302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory S Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory S |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | GORDON G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5955-8218 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sentencing ecocide
Chernobyl. Bhopal. Exxon Valdez. Kuwait’s burning oil wells. Through human malfeasance, petroleum spills, toxic leaks, deforestation, napalming, and other targeted habitat destruction have poisoned ecosystems and killed untold flora, fauna, and persons. This ecocidal conduct has been lightly punished, if at all. Can international criminal law (ICL) do better? The question is urgent: the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide…
Carl Schmitt and Ossip Flechtheim at Nuremberg
Should theoretical discourse supporting state crimes be protected as free speech or prosecuted as atrocity speech? The relationship between Neo-Hobbesian Nazi collaborator Carl Schmitt and progressive Futurology founder Ossip Flechtheim provides a fascinating framework for exploring that question. In 1933, Schmitt rejected Flechtheim as a PhD student, on antisemitic grounds. Meanwhile, becoming Nazism’s “Crown Jurist,” he helped force Jewish lawy…
Benjamin Ferencz and the Treatment of Victims in International Criminal Law
This piece examines a hitherto underexplored legal history chapter in international criminal law pioneer Benjamin Ferencz’s career, and, based on that, offers fixes for problems in current atrocity victim law. Known primarily for his Nuremberg prosecutorial exploits, Ferencz actually spent most of his career innovatively seeking reparations for Holocaust survivors and then later, with the benefit of such experience, sought to ensure coverage of v…
The Nuremberg Trials Public Communications Apparatus
If the Nuremberg Trials represent the birth of international criminal law (ICL), then the public relations efforts of their personnel represent the birth of ‘communication in international criminal justice’. This aspect of the Allied post-World War II prosecutions of Nazi war criminals has been hitherto underexplored in the literature. This article fills the gap by examining the origins and development of American efforts to give an account of th…
Atrocity Speech Law
Hate speech is widely considered a precondition for mass atrocity. Since World War II a large body of case law has interpreted the key offenses criminalizing such discourse: (1) incitement to genocide; and (2) persecution as a crime against humanity. But the law has developed in a fragmented manner. Surprisingly, no volume has furnished a comprehensive analysis of the entire jurisprudential output and the relation of each of its parts to one anot…
Conclusion
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” —MOTHER TERESA1 1.Sam Majdi, THE WISDOM OF THE GREAT 436 (2012). On April 15, 2016, in relation to his infamous November 1992 speech, a Rwandan High Court found Léon Mugesera guilty of incitement to commit genocide, inciting ethnic hatred and persecution as a crime against humanity....
Fixing Persecution, Instigation, and Ordering
Chapter 9 examines the rift between the ICTY and ICTR regarding nonadvocacy speech and persecution and considers which position makes better sense. Consistent with the chapeau and relevant precedent, it concludes that hate speech not directly calling for action should qualify as persecution. This is especially true given the many flaws of Kordić , the sole judgment to support the contrary position. The chapter also explains how to fix the issues …
Authoritarianism and the Internet
This article argues that Internet censorship is more fragile than is generally supposed and is, in fact, vulnerable to abrupt collapse. The volume and rapidity of online communication renders perfect policing of the Internet technologically impossible. Authoritarian governments are thus forced to rely on Internet users to police themselves in the form of self-censorship. This strategy has proven largely successful—legal ambiguity regarding what c…
Authoritarianism and the Internet
This article argues that Internet censorship is more fragile than is generally supposed and is, in fact, vulnerable to abrupt collapse. The volume and rapidity of online communication renders perfect policing of the Internet technologically impossible. Authoritarian governments are thus forced to rely on Internet users to police themselves in the form of self-censorship. This strategy has proven largely successful—legal ambiguity regarding what c…
Atrocity Speech Law
Hate speech is widely considered a precondition for mass atrocity. Since World War II a large body of case law has interpreted the key offenses criminalizing such discourse: (1) incitement to genocide; and (2) persecution as a crime against humanity. But the law has developed in a fragmented manner. Surprisingly, no volume has furnished a comprehensive analysis of the entire jurisprudential output and the relation of each of its parts to one anot…
Conclusion
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” —MOTHER TERESA1 1.Sam Majdi, THE WISDOM OF THE GREAT 436 (2012). On April 15, 2016, in relation to his infamous November 1992 speech, a Rwandan High Court found Léon Mugesera guilty of incitement to commit genocide, inciting ethnic hatred and persecution as a crime against humanity....
Fixing Persecution, Instigation, and Ordering
Chapter 9 examines the rift between the ICTY and ICTR regarding nonadvocacy speech and persecution and considers which position makes better sense. Consistent with the chapeau and relevant precedent, it concludes that hate speech not directly calling for action should qualify as persecution. This is especially true given the many flaws of Kordić , the sole judgment to support the contrary position. The chapter also explains how to fix the issues …
Authoritarianism and the Internet
This article argues that Internet censorship is more fragile than is generally supposed and is, in fact, vulnerable to abrupt collapse. The volume and rapidity of online communication renders perfect policing of the Internet technologically impossible. Authoritarian governments are thus forced to rely on Internet users to police themselves in the form of self-censorship. This strategy has proven largely successful—legal ambiguity regarding what c…
The Nuremberg Trials Public Communications Apparatus
If the Nuremberg Trials represent the birth of international criminal law (ICL), then the public relations efforts of their personnel represent the birth of ‘communication in international criminal justice’. This aspect of the Allied post-World War II prosecutions of Nazi war criminals has been hitherto underexplored in the literature. This article fills the gap by examining the origins and development of American efforts to give an account of th…
Benjamin Ferencz and the Treatment of Victims in International Criminal Law
This piece examines a hitherto underexplored legal history chapter in international criminal law pioneer Benjamin Ferencz’s career, and, based on that, offers fixes for problems in current atrocity victim law. Known primarily for his Nuremberg prosecutorial exploits, Ferencz actually spent most of his career innovatively seeking reparations for Holocaust survivors and then later, with the benefit of such experience, sought to ensure coverage of v…
Carl Schmitt and Ossip Flechtheim at Nuremberg
Should theoretical discourse supporting state crimes be protected as free speech or prosecuted as atrocity speech? The relationship between Neo-Hobbesian Nazi collaborator Carl Schmitt and progressive Futurology founder Ossip Flechtheim provides a fascinating framework for exploring that question. In 1933, Schmitt rejected Flechtheim as a PhD student, on antisemitic grounds. Meanwhile, becoming Nazism’s “Crown Jurist,” he helped force Jewish lawy…
Sentencing ecocide
Chernobyl. Bhopal. Exxon Valdez. Kuwait’s burning oil wells. Through human malfeasance, petroleum spills, toxic leaks, deforestation, napalming, and other targeted habitat destruction have poisoned ecosystems and killed untold flora, fauna, and persons. This ecocidal conduct has been lightly punished, if at all. Can international criminal law (ICL) do better? The question is urgent: the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Economic Justice (3 works) · Incitement (3 works) · International law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · War crime (3 works)