80 Years On: The Legacy of the Nuremberg Trials for Accountability

Event Details

BIICL, together with the Robert H. Jackson Center and the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, will hold an event to mark the 80th anniversary of the commencement of the Nuremberg Trials.

The event will focus on the continued importance of the precedents set by the Nuremberg Trials, and the resulting Nuremberg Principles, for the global struggle against impunity today. In particular, our distinguished panel of speakers will consider what bearing Nuremberg has on the much vexed question of whether doctrines of immunity can act as a bar to the arrest and prosecution of State officials accused of international crimes.

Consideration will also be given to the wider legal and political landscape of the 1940s that facilitated transformative approaches to seeking justice, including the work of the United Nations War Crimes Commission. The speakers will reflect on the lessons that remain to be learnt from these past processes in order to close outstanding accountability gaps.

The panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

Event Convenors

• Kristin Hausler, Dorset Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law and Director, Centre for International Law, BIICL;
• Anthony Wenton, Research Fellow in Public International Law, and Convenor of the project "The Immunity of State Officials from Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction: Lessons from the United Nations War Crimes Commission", BIICL. 

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Chair

Judge Joanna Korner CMG KC, Judge of the International Criminal Court

Speakers

• Sir Howard Morrison KCMG CBE KC, former ICC Judge and current Independent Advisor on War Crimes to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General
• Ms Kirsty Sutherland, Barrister, 9BR Chambers
• Professor Dan Plesch, Professor of Diplomacy and Strategy at SOAS University of London, and Visiting Research Fellow, BIICL
• Professor Diane Marie Amann, Regents' Professor of International Law, Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law, and Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center, at the University of Georgia
• Professor Dr Christoph Safferling, Director of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy

 
Event Co-Organisers