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Thursday, January 22, 2009
Great Conference on International Criminal Tribunals
For those of you able to come join us in the Hassee, you should try to clear some time next week on Jan 29-31 to attend an exciting symposium entitled: International Criminal Tribunals: Problems and Prospects. Justice Richard Goldstone will be one of the several distinguished speakers.
January 30-31, 2009
The Claude Pepper Auditorium
Florida State University
Thursday January 29, 2009
Pre-Conference Lunch &Talk
12:00 Noon
FSU Law School Rotunda
Attorney David Akerson, FSU Law
School Alumnus
“From FSU Law School to the
International Criminal Tribunals”
Friday January 30, 2009
9:15 AM Welcome
& Introductory Remarks
Professor
Terry Coonan, Executive Director, CAHR
9:30 AM Introduction
of Justice Richard Goldstone
President
Emeritus & Professor of Law Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte
Justice
Richard Goldstone
Former Chief
Prosecutor, UN International Criminal Tribunals, the Former Yugoslavia &
Rwanda
“International
Criminal Tribunals: Problems & Prospects”
Respondent
& Discussion Facilitator
Professor
Bert Lockwood, Editor-in-Chief, Human Rights Quarterly
11:00 AM Introduction
of David Tolbert
Professor
Sumner “Barney” Twiss, Distinguished Scholar, CAHR
David
Tolbert, U.S. Institute of Peace
Former Deputy
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
& Special Advisor to the UN Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials
“Making
Complementarity Work: Lessons from Yugoslavia and Cambodia”
Respondent &
Discussion Facilitator
Professor Fernando
Teson, Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar, FSU Law School
12:30 PM Lunch
2:00 PM Introduction
of Mark Ellis
Monsignor
William Kerr, Executive Director, FSU Pepper Center
Mark
Ellis, Executive Director, International Bar Association
“Strengthening
the International Criminal Court Through Domestic Prosecutions”
Respondent
& Discussion Facilitator
President
Emeritus Sandy D’Alemberte
3:30 PM Coffee
Break
3:45 PM Introduction
of Susana Sacouto
Professor
Terry Coonan
Professor Susana
Sacouto, Director, War Crimes Research Office, American University Washington
College of Law
“Victim
Participation in Proceedings of the International Criminal Court”
Respondent & Discussion
Facilitator
Professor Wayne
Logan, Gary & Sally Pajcic Professor of Law, FSU Law School
5:15 PM Adjourn
7:30 PM Dinner
Saturday January 31, 2009
9:30 AM Introduction
of Fergal Gaynor
Wendi
Adelson, Program Director, CAHR
Barrister
Fergal Gaynor, Irish Centre for Human Rights
Former Prosecutor,
International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia & Rwanda
“Prosecutorial
Challenges & Accomplishments of the International Criminal Tribunal for
Rwanda”
Respondent
& Discussion Facilitator
Professor
David Akerson, Denver University Sturm College of Law
11:00 AM Introduction
of April Carter
Professor
Terry Coonan
April Carter, Office
of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
“A View from the
Trenches—an ICTY Prosecutor”
Respondent &
Discussion Facilitator
Professor
Lee Metcalf, Director, FSU Graduate Studies Program in International Affairs
12:30 PM Lunch
2:00
PM Introduction of Nicholas
Stewart
Professor Barney
Twiss
Nicholas Stewart,
Defence Council, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
“A View from the Trenches—an ICTY Defense
Attorney”
Respondent
& Discussion Facilitator
Mark
Ellis, Executive Director, International Bar Association
3:30 PM Concluding
Remarks & Thanks
President
Emeritus Sandy D’Alemberte
7:00 PM Dinner
(off-campus)
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