Lecture Theatre 0.22, Law Building, Cardiff University
‘International Criminal Law and the European Convention on Human Rights’
Professor William Schabas
National University of Ireland
Professor William Schabas is the author of numerous books including Introduction to the International Criminal Court (CUP, 2007); Genocide in International Law (CUP, 2009); and The UN International Criminal Tribunals: Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone (CUP, 2006) which received the Certificate of Merit of the American Society of International Law in 2007. In May 2002, the President of Sierra Leone appointed Professor Schabas to the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2006 and was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2007.
Thursday 11 March at 17.00h
Room 1.28 Law School Building, Cardiff University.
‘Beyond the Letter of the Law: An Inquiry into the Role of Power, Politics, and Prejudice in Fomenting the Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict ’
Victor Kattan
SOAS, University of London
Victor Kattan is the author of From Cooperation to Co-Existence; International Law and Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1891-1949 (Pluto Press, London, 2009) a number of articles on international law aspects of the Palestinian/Israeli situation as well as the editor of a major collection of essays entitled The Palestine Question in International Law (London, BIICL, 2008). Victor is currently an AHRC Scholar at SOAS, is a former Research fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and has worked for a number of NGOs in the Middle East.
All are welcome to the above events which are free. Any queries regarding them can be made to Urfan Khaliq, Cardiff Law School, tel: 02920 875462. E-mail: Khaliq@Cardiff.ac.uk