On 17 November 2025, Jolana Makraiová, Senior Officer for Interdisciplinary Research at the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, participated in the second annual networking event focusing on “Empowering Women in International Law”. The event was organised by the International Association of Women Judges and the GQUAL Campaign, with the support of the International Law Students…
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On 13 November 2025, Professor Oona A. Hathaway, Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School and currently Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, gave a Nuremberg Academy Talk titled “War Unbound”. The core question addressed was why so many civilians are suffering and dying from war, how international humanitarian law has been unravelling and what can…
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On 13–14 November 2025, representatives of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy participated in the 3rd International Conference on Human Rights Research in Armenia, jointly organised by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI), the French University in Armenia and the Human Rights Research Center Armenia. The conference brought together experts, academics and practitioners to discuss…
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Eighty years after the Nuremberg Trials and forty years after the Junta Trials—reason enough to compare and discuss these two landmark proceedings. After all, they share several important similarities. The trials against the military junta in Buenos Aires were among the first applications of the concept of crimes against humanity, a legal category that was originally developed during the…
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Dr Thomas Dickert, a German jurist, joined the Bavarian judicial service in 1990 after completing his legal studies, legal traineeship and doctorate in Regensburg. He served as a public prosecutor in Ingolstadt and as a judge in Pfaffenhofen a.d. Ilm before taking up several positions at the Bavarian Ministry of Justice, where he later became a head of department.
In 2006 he was appointed…
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Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi was President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court from 2021 to 2023.Former Judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (2010-2018), serving as President of the Court during the last three years of her mandate.Currently Special Representative of Argentina to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance…
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On 5 November 2025 Academy Director Prof. Dr Christoph Safferling gave a lecture at the Dodd Center for Human Rights at the University of Connecticut, on the Nuremberg Trials 80 years ago, attended by over 100 participants. Thomas Dodd, one of the prosecutors in the main war crimes trial, was a central focus – with interesting insights and historical connections discussed. Also present were Dr…
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On 4 November 2025, Senior Officer Kiran Mohandas Menon was invited to teach as part of the Public International Law in Practice course of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL). The course attendess included officials from various governmental and non-governmental organisations. Mr Menon´s session offered an introduction to the history and legal frameworks of…
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On 3 November 2025, at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations, a discussion was held with the embassy’s legal advisor, Philipp Socha, along with legal advisors from Portugal, Sweden, Norway, the UK and Uruguay, regarding plans for the adoption of a convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity by the international community. Also in attendance was…
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The Nuremberg Academy co-hosted a side event held during International Law Week in New York in the margins of the 80th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on 29 October 2025. Dr Viviane Dittrich, Deputy Director of the Nuremberg Academy, moderated the event entitled „80 Years after the Nuremberg Trials – Where do we stand today on the crime of aggression and crimes against…
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