On 18 September 2025, Deputy Director Dr Viviane Dittrich was invited to participate in an expert meeting organised by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs with a focus on recent developments in international criminal justice and exchange on current research projects. The session was presided by Diégo Colas, Director of Legal Affairs at the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, and took place in person in Paris with online participation.
The meeting addressed current developments such as the establishment of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, sanctions against judges of the International Criminal Court and accountability for international crimes committed in Syria. As part of a panorama session on current research projects in the field, Dr Dittrich presented the Academy’s projects and activities on various topics, including digital evidence, length of proceedings of the International Criminal Court, hate speech, refugees as potential witnesses of international crimes and ethical principles for international criminal judges. The formulation of the ethical principles was the result of the ETHICA project led by the Nuremberg Academy together with the Ecole nationale de la Magistrature and the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights and supported by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and Expertise France. (vd)