Strengthening the Validity of International Criminal Tribunals Conference
Hosted by PluriCourts, 29-30 August 2016, at Voksenåsen Hotel, Oslo, Norway
Program:
9:00 Welcome Cecilia M. Bailliet
Session 1 Making the Processes of International Criminal Justice More Effective Chair: Professor Geir Ulfstein, Director, Pluricourts
9:15 Mikkel Jarle Christensen, ICourts, “Who Defines Effectiveness in International Criminal Law?
Jamie Trinidad, Lauterpacht Centre for IL, “The Management of Third-Party Amicus Participation before International Criminal Tribunals”
Jenia I. Turner, Dedman School of Law, Dallas, “Defense Perspectives on Fairness and Efficiency at the International Criminal Court”
10:35 Coffee Break
Chair, Joanna Nicholson, Researcher, Pluricourts
10:50 Yvonne McDermott, Bangor University, “Overcoming barriers to reliable fact-finding in International Criminal Trials”
Sergey Vasiliev, Leiden University, “The Dog Biting the Tail Wagging the Dog? The Relationship between International Criminal Jurisdictions and their Governance Institutions”
Geoff Dancy, Tulane University and Florencia Montal, University of Minnesota, “From law versus politics to law in politics: A pragmatist assessment of the ICC’s impact”
12:15 Lunch
Chair, Nobuo Hayashi, Researcher, Pluricourts and International Law and Policy Institute 13:15 Joanna Nicholson, PluriCourts,“Strengthening the Effectiveness of International Criminal Law through the Principle of Legality”
Carola Lingaas, University of Oslo, “Enhancing the Effectiveness of the Crime of Genocide”
Shezad Charania, Legal Adviser, British Embassy in the Hague, “Expediting trials at the ICC: The Role of States Parties in Amending the Rules of Procedure and Evidence”
Coffee Break 14:35
14:50 Session 2 Learning from and Relying Upon other Courts and Institutions Chair: Professor Cecilia Bailliet, Pluricourts
Nobuo Hayashi & Tamas Vince Adany, PluriCourts and Budapest, “How Positive is Positive Complementarity? Assessing the Genuineness of National Procedures by Reference to Human Rights Standards”
Marialejandra Moreno Mantilla, Human Rights in Practice in the Hague, “A Proposal for a Joint Strategy between the Office of the Prosecutor and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights”
16:10 Break
Chair: Gentian Zyberi, Associate Professor, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights
16:20 Viviane Dittrich, London School of Economics,“Learning Lessons and Leaving Legacies:
Constructing Validity at the International Criminal Tribunals”
Kirsten Bowman, Uppsala Univeristy,“The ICC and the Security Council”
Hemi Mistry, University of Nottingham, “The Concept of Collegiality in Theory and Practice:
Lessons for the ICC?”
17:40 End first day 19:00 Dinner
Session 3 More Courts? More Crimes?
9:30 Key Note Speech Judge Mandiaye Niang, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) 10:30 Coffee Break
Chair, Jo Stigen, Professor, Department of Public and International Law, UiO
10:45 Kerstin Carlson, ICOURTS, “Productions and Meanings of Justice in the Trial of Chad’s Hissene Habre in Senegal”
René Provost, McGill University, “Insurgent Complementarity”
Franziska Oehm, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, “From Nuremberg to Malabo: Economic actors and International Crimes”
12:05 Lunch
Chair, Kjersti Lohne, Researcher, Pluricourts
13:15 Dorothy Makaza, University of Hamburg, “The ineffectiveness of the ICL system in Africa:
Alternatives for remoulding ICL on the African Continent”
Marieke de Hoon, University of Amsterdam, “Why the Current International Criminal Justice Project Cannot Succeed and the Choices to Turn it Around”
Marina Aksenova, iCourts, “Symbolism as a Constraint on International Criminal Law”
14:35 Closing Remarks about Forthcoming Publication 14:50 End of Conference
