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Past Events
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February 2012
Thursday 9 February 2012
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The UN War Crimes Commission of 1943-1948
Dr Dan Plesch,
Director, Centre for International Studies & Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies.
Dr Plesch will discuss the history and implications for modern International Criminal Law of the work of the UN War Crimes Commisson (UNWCC) based in the Royal Courts of Justice and of the many national tribunals it supported which were at work in the later 1940s. His work draws on work on the generally inaccessible and overlooked files of the Commission in New York. These concern the development and implementation of law concerning; crimes against states' own citizens, wars of aggression, environmental destruction, abuse of cultural practices and sexual violence before and alongside the Nuremburg and Tokyo processes. |
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Wednesday 8 February 2012
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18:00 |
Restricting the use of the Death Penalty: the releva...
Saul Lehrfreund MBE, Simons Muirhead and Burton; Executive Director of The Death Penalty Project.
Saul Lehrfreund is the co-founder and an Executive Director of the Death Penalty Project an international NGO based at Simons Muirhead & Burton. He has been running the Death Penalty Project since its inception in 1992. In November 2000, Saul was awarded an MBE for services to international human rights and in July 2009, he received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Reading.
Saul specialises in constitutional and international human rights law and has represented prisoners under sentence of death, inter alia, before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; and the United Nations Human Rights Committee. He also provides legal assistance to British prisoners facing the death penalty as a member of the Pro Bono Panel of the UK FCO.
In 1995 the Death Penalty Project won the category of best pro bono activity” at the inaugural UK Lawyer Awards, and in the same year Saul received an individual award from the International Bar Association for his contribution to the promotion and protection of human rights. In 1999, he and Parvais Jabbar were joint winners of the Times/Justice Young Lawyer of the Year award.
Saul is a member of the FCO Minister of State's Expert Group on the Death Penalty and was a founding member of previous Death Penalty Panel advising the Foreign Secretary.. He was appointed as the UK nominated representative at the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue Seminar held in Beijing in June 2005. Saul is a member of the University of Reading's Law School Pro Bono Steering Committee and in 2009, he was invited to join The Times Law Panel.
He has published and lectured extensively on capital punishment and human rights.
Arranged with the Solicitors International Human Rights Group (SIHRG) and the Society for Advanced Legal Studies (SALS)
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Monday 6 February 2012
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17:00 |
EU Criminal Law: What's New for 2012?
Professor John Spencer,
Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Centre of European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge;
President of the European Criminal Law Association (UK).
Organised with the European Criminal Law Association (UK). |
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