Calling Matters By What They Are

Juliette Marquis speaks with Professor Chimène Keitner, a leading authority on international law serving as the 27th Counselor on International Law in the U.S. Department of State. She has authored two books and dozens of articles, essays, and book chapters on questions surrounding the relationship among law, communities, and borders, including issues of jurisdiction, extraterritoriality, foreign sovereign and foreign official immunity, and the historical understandings underpinning current practice in these areas. The discussion centers around the subject of the Ukrainian invasion being labelled “genocide” and what that term means within an international legal framework. What are these human rights violations adding up to? Episode photo by Serhii Korovainyi