Archive for the 'Upcoming Events' Category
July 26th, 2010 by Cathy Mac Daid
The International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC) has announced that the next NATO School/ISISC Shari’a Law and Military Operations Seminar, will take place at the headquarters of the ISISC in via Logoteta 29, Siracusa (Italy), on 11-15 October 2010.
The goal of this seminar is to provide instruction to military officers, legal advisors, operational planners, political and policy advisors by internationally pre-eminent scholars on Shari’a. The seminar will offer an introduction to Shari’a Law, specifically discussing Shari’a and law of armed conflict, human rights, criminal justice, terrorism, and Jihad.
This year, for the first time, the Seminar will be open to a limited number of “external” participants and the ISISC is inviting nominations for participants from various institutions.
Please see attached the draft agenda and announcement for more details : Announcement Sharia Law Course 2010 FINAL
June 17th, 2010 by Cathy Mac Daid
Tim McCormack will give a lecture on Peace v. Justice and the Role of War Crimes Trials at 19.30, 23 June 2010 at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, Den Haag.
Tim McCormack is Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne Law School and Special Adviser on International Humanitarian Law to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. He was the Foundation Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law (2001-2010) and the Foundation Australian Red Cross Professor of International Huamnmitarian Law (1996-2010) both at the Melbourne Law School. From 2002 – 2006 he acted as amicus curiae on international law issues in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic and from 2003-2007 he provided International Humanitarian Law advice in the defense of David Hicks – the Australian held at Guantanamo Bay and tried by US Military Commission.
For more information see here – http://www.asser.nl/events.aspx?id=140
June 2nd, 2010 by Alex Fielding
On June 3, the ICTY Appeals Chamber will hold an extraordinary public hearing in Courtroom 1 to consider whether the case of former JNA General Veselin Šljivančanin will be reopened.
As reported on the ICLB blog, Šljivančanin has made a number of motions to reopen his case following the Appeals Judgement which quashed his acquittal on aiding and abetting the murder of prisoners of war at Ovčara, and increased his sentence from 5 to 17 years.
The basis of this Application for Review is new testimony from Šljivančanin’s unit commander General Miodrag Panic that he was present during the conversation between Mile Mrkšić and Šljivančanin on 20 November 1991, and that Mrkšić did not tell Šljivančanin about any order to withdraw the JNA protection for the prisoners of war at Ovčara. Yesterday, the ICTY Appeals Chamber denied a motion by the Prosecution to have Mile Mrksic testify at this hearing.
The morning session (8:45 – 12:45) will hear Panic’s direct and cross-examination and the afternoon session (13:45 – 15:30) will hear arguments from both sides as to whether this constitutes a “new fact” under Article 26 of the ICTY Statute. We encourage all to attend the hearing, the first of its kind at the ICTY.
May 19th, 2010 by Alex Fielding
The 2010 Lalive Lecture will be delivered on 2 June by Judge Gilbert Guillaume, former President of the International Court of Justice on “Le précédent dans la justice et l’arbitrage international” (The Use of Precedent in International Justice and Arbitration).
Since 2007, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (HEID) and LALIVE organise and co-host the annual Lalive Lecture at the HEID.
Date: Wednesday 2 June 2010, 18:30
Location: Auditorium Jacque-Freymond, 132 rue de Lausanne, Geneva
Admission: Free
Please RSVP by 26 May 2010 to invitation@lalive.ch if you wish to attend.
http://www.lalive.ch/e/academic/conf-org.php
http://graduateinstitute.ch/corporate/resources/calendarofevents_en.html?evenementId=92024
May 17th, 2010 by Deirdre Montgomery
Steven Kay QC and Gillian Higgins will be lecturing on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 August 2010 at the Salzburg Law School Annual Summer School on International Criminal Law organised by Professor Otto Triffterer. On 18 August they will do a full day presentation on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and on 19 August a full day presentation on the ICC and Kenya situation.
This will include a moot court competition where teams will argue the correctness of the jurisprudence of the Pre-Trial Chamber in its Article 15 Decision to permit the Prosecutor to investigate the situation in Kenya. A prize will be awarded for the winning team.
The Summer School this year is from Sunday 8 – Friday 20 August 2010. The theme of this years course is on the Kampala Conference: Handling the results of the first Review Conference – Success and failures equally obliging to continue consolidating and amending international criminal law and its enforcement mechanisms.
Amongst other distinguished speakers will be Prof. Bassiouni.
See the website for further information: http://www.salzburglawschool.com/
April 8th, 2010 by Cathy Mac Daid
The next lecture in the Supranational Criminal Law Lecture Series will be on 14 April 2010 at 19.30. The topic is “Humanitarian Organizations – International criminal justice in the field”. The speaker will be Ms. Anne-Marie La Rosa, Legal Adviser to the Advisory Service of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Venue: Grotius Centre, Lange Houtstraat 5 (Auditorium 4th floor), The Hague
March 21st, 2010 by Deirdre Montgomery
The next lecture in the Supranational Criminal Law Lectures Series will be by Dov Jacobs on: “Bridging the Gap between the fight against terrorism and international justice: the impossible task of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon?”
The lecture will explore the relationship between international justice and the fight against terrorism, as it can be witnessed in the creation of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Focusing on the material jurisdiction of the Court, the lecture will reveal the difficulties and inconsistencies arising from having chosen national Lebanese law as the applicable law of the Court, before concluding on a more optimistic note by seeing how the STL could contribute to the definition of an international crime of terrorism.
Dov Jacobs is a PhD researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, and a Research Fellow at the T.M.C. Asser institute in The Hague. See his blog, here.
The lecture begins at 19.30 on the 24 March 2010, at Campus Den Haag, Lange Houtstraat 5, room 404/405 (4th floor), The Hague. Registration not necessary, seats available on a first come first serve basis
March 20th, 2010 by Cathy Mac Daid
The Movies that Matter Festival is the annual international film and debate festival of Amnesty International. The festival offers a platform for films that focus on situations where human rights and human dignity are at stake. Since early 2009 the festival has been organised in and around Filmhuis Den Haag, in the city of justice and peace. Read more on the festival website. In 2010 the festival will take place from the 25th to the 31st of March.
March 16th, 2010 by Cathy Mac Daid
“In recognition of the power of film to educate and galvanize a broad constituency of concerned citizens, Human Rights Watch decided to create the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival”.
Human Rights Watch’s International Film Festival has become a leading venue for distinguished fiction, documentary and animated films and videos with a distinctive human rights theme.The festival consistently features a large number of co-presentations with other festivals to encourage cross-communication and mutual support throughout the festival and film community. A majority of each years screenings are followed by discussions with the filmmakers and Human Rights Watch staff on issues represented in the films.
Each year, the festival’s programming committee screens more than 500 films and videos to create a program that represents a range of countries and issues. Once a film is nominated for a place in the program, staff of the relevant division of Human Rights Watch also view the work to confirm its accuracy in the portrayal of human rights concerns.
This year three distinct themes have emerged in the programme: Closed Societies: Iran and North Korea, Accountability and Justice and Development and Migration.
Films screen at The Ritzy, ICA, Curzon Soho and Curzon Mayfair.
To download a programme see here.
March 8th, 2010 by Cathy Mac Daid
Today is International Women’s Day. The UN’s Theme for this year is ‘Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities: Progress for All‘.International Women’s Day has been observed since the early 1900s and annually on 8 March, thousands of events are held throughout the world to inspire women and celebrate achievements.
A directory of events to celebrate the day in your town is available here.
March 4th, 2010 by Cathy Mac Daid
On Wednesday, 24 March, from 19:30, the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (Leiden University, Campus The Hague), the T.M.C. Asser Institute and the Coalition for the International Criminal Court invite you to the Supranational Criminal Law Lecture Series - the lecture topic is :
Making Sense of the STL: step forward or step backward for International Criminal Justice
The speaker will be Mr. Dov Jacobs, PhD candidate at the T.M.C. Asser Institute.
Venue: Grotius Centre, Lange Houtstraat 5, room 404/405 (4th floor), The Hague
Attendance is free of charge.
Directions to the Grotius Centre – here
February 25th, 2010 by Deirdre Montgomery
ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will deliver the opening lecture of the Supranational Criminal Law Spring lecture series on Wednesday 3 March. He will speak on “Policies and prosecutorial strategy of the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC” :
The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court consulted widely with States, international organizations, NGO and academics in preparing its Prosecutorial Strategy for 2009-2012. The final version of the Strategy, taking into consideration the comments received during the consultations, was adopted early February 2010. The strategy outlines its plans for the coming three years, aiming to ensure predictability of the work of the Office and to facilitate the planning by others.
The Office is also updating and completing policy papers on key issues such as: a) the selection of situations and cases; b) positive complementarity; c) The interests of justice; d) victims’ participation; e) witness protection; f) disclosure of evidence; e) gender crimes. The Office is aiming to ensure a consistent approach in all its cases, thus enhancing efficiency.
The Supranational Criminal Law Lectures are organised by the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (Campus The Hague, Leiden University), the T.M.C. Asser Institute and the NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court. The lectures are free off charge, so everyone who is interested is welcome to attend.
Time: starting at 19.30 hrs
Location: Campus Den Haag, Lange Voorhout 44 in The Hague
Registration not needed, seats available on a first come first serve basis.
February 25th, 2010 by Deirdre Montgomery
Public Lecture on “The Commonwealth and Global Challenges”, by HE Mr.Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth Secretary-General, on Monday, 1 March 2010 , 6.30pm at Auditoire Jacques Freymond (AJF – The Graduate Institute) – Rue de Lausanne 132, Geneva.
February 25th, 2010 by Deirdre Montgomery
The European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with Linköping University, University of Amsterdam’s Centre for International Law and the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect will host a research conference on ‘The Responsibility to Protect: From Principle to Practice’ in Linköping, Sweden, from 8 to 11 June 2010. See below, and click here, for more information:
The aim of the Conference R2P: From Principle to Practice is to discuss selected aspects of R2P with a view to identify the added value of R2P as well as the challenges for the practical application of R2P.
While there is considerable general support for R2P along the three pillars suggested by the UN Secretary-General (responsibility of states to protect their own populations, assistance and capacity building and timely responses), fundamental questions remain. For instance: what does R2P add to the already existing obligations of states and to the substantial arsenal of instruments at the possession of the international community to prevent and respond to mass atrocities? Does R2P entail a risk of opening the door to external intervention? And how can R2P be operationalised and implemented in concrete circumstances?
Knowledge of the impact of the principle is limited. Recent practice shows both instances of where the international community succeeded (Kenya) and failed (Darfur) to prevent mass atrocities, but in neither of these cases it is obvious that success or failure could be attributed directly to the use, or lack of use, of the concept of R2P.
The Conference will bring together experts, academics, and policy-makers, from all regions of the world, and from various disciplines, including political science, international law and moral philosophy.
February 16th, 2010 by Deirdre Montgomery
ICTR Defence Counsel will be hosting a Conference on 23 & 24 of May 2010, titled: “Lessons from the Defence at the Ad Hoc UN Tribunals, and Prospects for International Justice at the ICC” . The Conference location is Librairie UOPC, Avenue Gustave Demey 14-16, entrance at number 10, 1160 Brussels, Belgium.
There is currently a call for papers, detailed below:
“The Legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)” was the major focus of the First International Conference organized by ICTR defense counsel on November 14-15, 2009 at The Hague. The ICTR experience has shown that an International Court can emanate from a highly political, diplomatic body, such as the UN Security Council, but the legacy of such tribunals is open to criticism as being the product of “victor’s justice,” rather than a foundation for even-handed international justice.
However, the experience of the ad hoc UN Security Council Tribunals, ICTR and ICTY, also provides a framework for considering the challenge of establishing international criminal law concepts and institutions that are not governed by political considerations, or the interests of more powerful states. As the Ad Hoc UN Tribunals come to a close, ICTY and ICTR detainees are facing years of imprisonment without the benefit of continuing legal representation or well-recognized institutions to address issues related to confinement and revision of cases. The International Criminal Court has begun its operations, but the African Union has unanimously resolved not to cooperate with the ICC because all accused have been involved in African conflicts, thus far.
To reflect on these issues, and prospects for the future of International Criminal Law, lawyers, law professors, scholars, historians, journalists, and other professionals, with a view from the defense perspective, are invited to electronically submit abstracts/or summaries of maximum 300 words by April 1, 2010. Accepted papers are limited to 15 pages (3,000 words) and must be submitted electronically by May 10, 2010 to be included in Conference folder.
http://www.ictrlegacydefenseperspective.org/En.html
February 12th, 2010 by Cathy Mac Daid
THE ACADEMY LECTURE SERIES
« Law of Naval Warfare »
The Lecture will be delivered by Professor Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
Wednesday, 3 March 2010 – 6.30pm
Auditoire Jacques Freymond (AJF – The Graduate Institute) – Rue de Lausanne 132, Geneva
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THE ACADEMY LECTURE SERIES WITH THE FESTIVAL DU FILM ET FORUM INTERNATIONAL SUR LES DROITS HUMAINS (FIFDH)
“Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment”
The Lecture will be delivered by Professor Manfred Nowak
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 – 6.30pm
Auditoire Salle Luigi Solari (R290), Uni Mail – Boulevard du Pont d’Arve 40, Geneva
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OTHER EVENTS
The International Development Law Organization and the Academy are pleased to invite you to
The Launch of the book Legal Empowerment: Practitioners’ Perspectives.
Thursday, 4 March 2010, 6:30pm to 8:30pm at the Villa Moynier, Rue De Lausanne 120 B, Geneva
The book is a collection of articles on approaches to integrating justice and development in ways that benefit the poor and other disadvantaged populations. Edited by Stephen Golub, the book is part of IDLO’s book seriesLessons Learned: Narrative Accounts of Legal Reform in Developing and Transition Countries. For the speakers who kindly agreed to take part in the event and other information please see the invitation attached to this email.
RSVP before 26 February to Ariane Genthon at agenthon@idlo.int or tel. +39 06 40403292
THE ACADEMY LECTURE SERIES
« Law of Naval Warfare »
The Lecture will be delivered by Professor Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
Wednesday, 3 March 2010 – 6.30pm
Auditoire Jacques Freymond (AJF – The Graduate Institute) – Rue de Lausanne 132, Geneva
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THE ACADEMY LECTURE SERIES WITH THE FESTIVAL DU FILM ET FORUM INTERNATIONAL SUR LES DROITS HUMAINS (FIFDH)
“Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment”
The Lecture will be delivered by Professor Manfred Nowak
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 – 6.30pm
Auditoire Salle Luigi Solari (R290), Uni Mail – Boulevard du Pont d’Arve 40, Geneva
For more information see the website at : http://www.adh-geneva.ch/