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Director Professor Dr Safferling met with the President of the International Criminal Court

 
Director Professor Dr Christoph Safferling was at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 11 May 2023. He was welcomed by the President of the ICC Piotr Hofmanski, who emphasised how important the International Nuremberg Principles Academy was for the ICC. The Nuremberg Academy kept the legacy of the Nuremberg trials alive which is important for the legitimacy of the ICC. Director Safferling… Learn more  
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Nuremberg Declaration on the Crime of Aggression

 
On 8 May 2023, the Nuremberg Academy published the “Nuremberg Declaration on the Crime of Aggression. In 1945 the Crime of Aggression was prosecuted for the first time in history before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. The promise was then to criminalise aggression in order to prevent future wars. Robert H. Jackson, the US-American Chief-Prosecutor, emphasised in his opening… Learn more  
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Academy Talk Given by Professor Frédéric Mégret

 
On 8 May 2023, Professor Dr Frédéric Mégret (McGill University) visited the Nuremberg Academy and gave a talk on “International Criminal Law and the Symbolic Economy of Stigma”. His paper was an attempt to shed light on the meta language of international criminal justice. He spoke on the pitfalls of linguistic inflation, the authority of international criminal lawyers and the allocation of… Learn more  
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Director Professor Dr Safferling was Welcomed by the President of the Higher Regional Court

 
On 8 May 2023, Director Professor Christoph Safferling was welcomed by the President of the Higher Regional Court, Dr Thomas Dickert. Representing the Free State of Bavaria as one of the founders of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, President Dickert congratulated Director Safferling on the successful Nuremberg Academy Lecture and the Symposium on the Crime of Aggression. Professor… Learn more  
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Director Professor Dr Safferling Welcomed the President of the Regional Court Nuremberg-Fürth

 
On 8 May 2023, Director Professor Dr Christoph Safferling welcomed the President of the Regional Court Nuremberg-Fürth, Roland Glass, to the premises of the Nuremberg Academy. President Glass expressed his appreciation for the “Good Neighbourhood Day” the Academy held in April and his hope that such an event could be repeated. Director Safferling thanked President Glass for the cooperation with… Learn more  
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Nuremberg Academy Lecture – Claus Kreß

 
Professor Dr Dres h.c. Claus Kreß, Universität zu Köln, an eminent scholar on international law and world-leading expert on the crime of aggression gave a lecture on “The Ukraine War and the Crime of Aggression“ at the historic Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, on 4 May 2023. This was the second lecture within the Nuremberg Academy Lectures. The crime of aggression is… Learn more  
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Visit of a Group of Colombian Master Students

 
On 21 April 2023, a group of Master students from Colombia visited the Nuremberg Academy. The visit   represented one station of their study tour to Nuremberg, which also led them to the Memorium Nuremberg Trials and to historic Courtroom 600, the place where modern international criminal law was conceived. Project Officer Dr Pablo Gavira Díaz welcomed the group and presented the main… Learn more  
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Good Neighbourhood Day

 
We were delighted to welcome our “neighbours” of the Nuremberg judiciary on 17 April 2023. We invited officials and staff of the Nuremberg courts to get to know the Academy, its work and its premises in the east wing of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice. After the completion of a new building for the criminal justice branches of the Nuremberg Regional Court and the Higher Regional Court and… Learn more  
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Meeting of Director Professor Dr Safferling with the Chief of Police of Middle Franconia

 
Director Professor Dr Safferling met with the Chief of Police of Middle Franconia, Mr Adolf Blöchl, and his deputy, Chief Commissioner Gernot Rochholz, on 14 April 2023. In this first mutual introductory meeting, they discussed the Academy's activities, security issues that may arise and current topics in international criminal law. Director Safferling invited the Chief of Police and his staff to… Learn more  
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Benjamin “Ben“ Ferencz the last Prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials has Passed away

 
It is with deep sadness that the Nuremberg Academy learnt of the passing of Benjamin "Ben" Ferencz, former prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials, on Friday, 7 April 2023, at the age of 103 years. Director Professor Dr Christoph Safferling expressed, on behalf of the entire team of the Academy, sincere condolences to the Ferencz family.With Ben Ferencz, the world not only loses the last prosecutor of… Learn more  
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