Some interesting events and opportunities are coming up!! - Today Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, is participating in an hour-long webcast with the IBA. The interview will be relayed around the globe in real time at 14:30 BST / 15:30 Utrecht time. She will discuss the key challenges of her role and give her views on some of the most serious and complex human rights crises across the world, including Syria, North Korea and Nigeria and elsewhere. She will address pressing questions such as: what is the right balance between justice and immunity? How can personal freedoms and global security be reconciled? And what role can business play in the fight against human rights violations? Click here to sign up for the webcast: https://wcc.webeventservices/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=789981&sessionid=1&key=1595385405C22FC370ABDB7199CAC224&sourcepage=register - The Asser Institute will organise a lecture on The ICC in the Chinese Context: Perceptions and Prospects on 18 June at 7 pm as part of its Supranational Criminal Law Lecture Series programme. There is no need to register for this event. The lecture will be given by Michael Y. Liu, Secretary-General of the Chinese Initiative on International Criminal Justice. For further information please visit: haguejusticeportal.net/index.php?id=13085 - The NIOD Institute of War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies will hold a workshop on 19 June between 10:00-18:00 on The Trial Record as a Historical Source. To register and for further information, please visit: niod.nl/en/activities/international-workshop-trial-record-historical-source - The ADC-ICTY and the ICLB will be organising another edition of their successful Mock Trial this year, between 23 and 28 June. It will provide the opportunity to gain first hand knowledge and training from experienced practitioners in the field of international criminal law. The trainers will be ADC-ICTY Defence Counsel and the bench will be composed of esteemed Judges. Deadline for applying is the 6TH JUNE 2014. For further information and the tentative programme, please visit: adc-icty.org/home/opportunities/mock-trial-2014.html - Bangor Law School and the Bangor Centre for International Law are organising a conference on Proof in International Criminal Trials on 27 and 28 June. For further information, please visit: shop.bangor.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=381&prodid=1538 - A conference on 21st Century Borders: Territorial Conflict and Dispute Resolution will be held on 13th June 2014 at Lancaster University. 21st Century borders are coming under increasing strain with shifting balances of international power. This was seen most dramatically in the recent Russian annexation of the Crimea and its connected repudiation of uti possidetis that underpinned statehood in the former Soviet Union. In East Asia tensions remain high in sovereignty disputes over islands and maritime delimitation. For further information visit: lancaster.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4839/
Posted on: Fri, 30 May 2014 08:34:15 +0000
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