Welcome
Simone Scriven is a Geneva-based writer who has published work in the London Review of Books, the New Statesman, the Delacorte Review, the Guardian, Wasafiri, Popula and several anthologies, as well as a book of narrative nonfiction.
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Recent Work
“That’s not unusual. It’s hard for an idea to become a legal concept, and a legal concept, a law. International laws aren’t hatched in judicial rookeries. They don’t claw their way into existence, able to stand, run, and forage for themselves. So how does the ultimate abstraction—a rule—grow a spine? How does it flesh out, put on clothes, and start to yell at people to show up in court?.”
“The one thing that even committed democrats openly envy about autocratic regimes are the time lines. In no democracies with healthy electoral competition can an incoming administration expect decades in power to see through its policies. Apart from, perhaps, for a party of liberation – whose identity retains the idea of change, long after it has become the status quo.”
“Duffy, a professor of international politics at the University of Sheffield, sees a problem where others might see progress: since 2008, there has been a successful campaign to portray the illegal wildlife trade as a serious global issue, requiring an international criminal justice response.”