On 1 December 2025, the Nuremberg Academy in cooperation with the British Institute of International & Comparative Law (BIICL) and the Robert H. Jackson Center will co-organise a panel discussion in London titled " 80 Years On: The Legacy of the Nuremberg Trials for Accountability".
The discussion will focus on the continued importance of the precedents set by the Nuremberg Trials, and the resulting Nuremberg Principles, for the global struggle against impunity today. In particular, the discussants will consider what bearing Nuremberg has on the much-vexed question of whether doctrines of immunity can act as a bar to the arrest and prosecution of State officials accused of international crimes. Consideration will also be given to the wider legal and political landscape of the 1940s that facilitated transformative approaches to seeking justice, including the work of the United Nations War Crimes Commission. The speakers will reflect on the lessons that remain to be learnt from these past processes in order to close outstanding accountability gaps.
The panel will be composed of:
Chair
- Judge Joanna Korner CMG KC, Judge of the International Criminal Court
Speakers
- Professor Diane Marie Amann, Regents' Professor of International Law, Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law, and Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center, at the University of Georgia
- Ms Gillian Higgins, International Barrister and Head of the International Practice Group at 9BR Chambers
- Sir Howard Morrison KCMG CBE KC, former ICC Judge and current Independent Advisor on War Crimes to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General
- Professor Dan Plesch, Professor of Diplomacy and Strategy at SOAS University of London, and Visiting Research Fellow at BIICL
- Professor Dr Christoph Safferling, Director of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy
The panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A session with the audience. The event is free to attend and all attendees are required to register here. (km)