The International Nuremberg Principles Academy and the Center for International Human Rights of Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law co-organized the Atrocity Crimes Litigation Bi-Annual Review Symposium in Nuremberg on 25 May 2018.
This one-day high-level conference brought together leading practitioners, including prosecutors and defence counsel from the war crimes tribunals, as well as an academic moderator (Ambassador David Scheffer, Northwestern University) and a scholar (Professor Carsten Stahn, Leiden University) to review and discuss the recent developments in atrocity crimes litigation arising from the practice and jurisprudence of various courts and tribunals.
The morning session focused on the International Criminal Court (ICC), International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT), Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor‘s Office (KSC-SPO).
The afternoon session covered the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), war crimes courts in Serbia and Bosnia, International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011 (IIIM), Habré trial before the Extraordinary African Chambers in Senegal, and the proposed African Union-South Sudan hybrid tribunal.
Speakers included Norman Farrell (STL), Nicholas Koumjian (ECCC), Caroline Buisman (defense counsel), Xavier-Jean Keita (defense counsel), Andrew Clapham (South Sudan), Stephen Rapp (Syria and South Sudan), Katrina Gustafson (MICT), Natalie von Wistinghausen (defense counsel), David Schwendiman (KSC-SPO), Ivana Zanic (war crimes courts in Serbia and Bosnia), Catherine Marchi-Uhel (IIIM), and Wolfgang Kaleck (Syria).
