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- JON-MIRENA LANDA GOROSTIZA
- WANDA E. HALL
YOLANDA FOSTER is the Sri Lanka expert for the South Asia team at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International. She has extensive experience in field based qualitative research in South Asia; and is responsible for compilation and publication of reports, publicizing human rights violations; advocating before the United Nations, regional and national human rights bodies; and engaging with global and local human rights campaigns. Recent activism includes campaigning for an international independent investigation into allegations of war crimes committed during the recent conflict in Sri Lanka.Her publications record includes reports and media statements for Amnesty International as well as a report on Small arms and light weapons: Challenges in Sri Lanka and options for the future for Saferworld, UK (May 2006) and a number of book chapters including ‘Development in a time of Conflict’, in M. Meyer (ed) Building Local Capacities for Peace. Rethinking Development and Conflict in Sri Lanka, (2003) DAVID FRASER is Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of Nottingham. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia, the University of Texas, Austin and at the European University Institute. In 2003, he was a Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. His research interests are in the fields of legal theory, modern/contemporary legal history, law and popular culture, hate crime, especially antisemitism and Holocaust Denial, and legal aspects of the Holocaust and National Socialism. His publications include, Law After Auschwitz: Towards A Jurisprudence of the Holocaust (2005) and The Fragility of Law: Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940-1945 (2009) (awarded the SLSA Hart Book Prize). His most recent work is Daviborshch's Cart: Narrating the Holocaust in Australian War Crimes Trials (University of Nebraska Press, 2010). His current research includes a study of law and antisemitism in the context of the ‘Jewish School Question’ in Montréal in the 19th and 20th centuries, controversies surrounding the legal categorization of German Jewish refugees under nationality law in the aftermath of WWII, and a critical analysis of the Nuremberg Justice Case in light of legal theories of Nazism. CHRISTOPHE GERMANN has, in the last ten years, worked in various positions at the University of Berne (from where he holds a PhD from the Faculty of Law) and as a visiting academic at the European University Institute of Florence, the Comparative Law Institute (UMRDC) of Paris – Sorbonne /CNRS, at the MacMillan Centre for International and Area Studies of Yale University, at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law of the University of Cambridge and, most recently, at the law schools of Columbia University (New York), and Birkbeck University of London. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, where he is currently conducting research on aspects of the ‘slow death’ of cultural identities, with regard both to intellectual property protection and state aid for the cultural sector. In this context, he is exploring a new concept of variable geometry in copyright duration. This research is funded by the Swiss National Science Federation, and will result in a book on cultural genocide in international law to be published in 2011 MARIANA GOETZ has undertaken legal policy work in the field of international criminal justice and the rights of victims for over 10 years. She has recently taken on the role of Deputy Director / Director of Programmes at REDRESS after having led its International Criminal Court and Post Conflict Justice programmes for a number of years. Prior to joining REDRESS, Mariana worked at International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and later at the Special Court for Sierra Leone where she was the Legal Advisor to the Registrar. Mariana is undertaking a PhD at the London School of Economics on Reparations and the International Criminal Court. Mariana has also taught Public International Law at the London School of Economics, and provided training as part of the IBA Human Rights training programme for Iraqi Judges, Prosecutors and Lawyers. She has also consulted on transitional justice issues STEPHEN KAYE, QC was called to the Bar in 1977, and became QC in 1997. Recorder of the Crown Court 1997. Secretary of the Criminal Bar Association of England and Wales 1993-1996, Prime Minister's Special Committee on Victims in the Criminal Justice System 1995, Founder Member of the European Criminal Bar Association 1997, Founder member of the International Criminal Law Bureau 2008. Lectures throughout the world on issues concerning the International Criminal Tribunals and the International Criminal Court (i.e. Berlin, Amsterdam, New York, Johannesburg, Salzburg, Geneva, London, The Hague, Sarajevo, and Arusha). Training courses in advocacy to enable counsel to have the skills possible to appear before these courts. He is a member of the Criminal Bar Association (England), Association of Defence Counsel (ICTY), Defence Counsel ICC. His international criminal law experience includes: The Prosecutor v Dusko Tadic 1996-1997: U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. This was the first international war crimes trial since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials of the 1940s. This landmark trial in 1996 established the foundation for modern international criminal law. Tadic was charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Prosecutor v Alfred Musema 1998-2001: UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. This was the first trial of a civilian alleging command responsibility for genocide. The team (including Gillian Higgins of 9BRi) was were the first UN defence counsel to enter Rwanda to conduct investigations. The Prosecutor v Slobodan Milosevic 2001-2006: In September 2001 the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia appointed me amicus curiae with responsibility for defence issues in the trial of the ex-President of Serbia. In September 2004, I was appointed the Court Assigned Defence Counsel for Slobodan Milosevic. Gillian Higgins of 9BRi was also counsel with me in this historic case involving the first international trial of a Head of State. The trial was upon 3 joined indictments concerning the wars of the 1990s waged in Kosovo, Bosnia and Croatia by the Serbian forces and was the largest ever international criminal trial in its scope. The Prosecutor v Ivan Čermak 2007-2011: U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia prosecution of Croatian Army Generals as a result of Operation Storm in August 1995 which was the military action that resulted in the liberation of the Croatian territories from the RSK. Gillian Higgins of 9BRi was co-counsel in this case which has been described as the most important trial in the history of the State of Croatia. MPS v. Dariye: Civil and criminal proceedings against the Governor of Jos State in the Federal Republic of Nigeria and England for corruption and money laundering. Syria: Since December 2005 advisor to the Syrian Government and individuals concerning the investigation into the assassination of Lebanese ex-Premier, Rafik Hariri and 14 related terrorist explosions which are the subject of the jurisdiction of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Sudan: Since August 2008 advisor to the government of Sudan re: referral by UN Security Council of Darfur situation to the International Criminal Court and the arrest warrant issued for President Bashir. Kenya: Since April 2010 instructed with Gillian Higgins and Toby Cadman of 9BRi to represent one of the suspects accused of post election violence in 2008 currently being investigated by the International Criminal Court. Bangladesh: Since October 2010 instructed with Toby Cadman and John Cammegh of 9BRi by Jamaat E Islami to represent their members prosecuted by the Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunal. In the International Court of Justice: Application of the Republic of Liberia concerning an international arrest warrant of President Charles Taylor, issued on 7 March 2003 by the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Guantanomo Bay: I have advised suspects held in US Army captivity on ways and means to exercise their human rights. Publications: The Role of the Defence - Commentary on The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ed. Casese) 2002. JON-MIRENA LANDA GOROSTIZA is currently Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law at the Basque Country University (Euskadi, Spain). Professor Landa’s principal lines of research deal with racism, xenophobia and discrimination, as well as crimes against humanity and terrorism crimes. Publications include Criminal policy against xenophobia and the expansionist tendencies of penal law (2001); ‘The “new” crime against humanity (1995 Penal Code art. 607bis): a first approach’, Revista Penal 14 (2004); ‘Article 7. There is no punishment without law’, European Convention on Human Rights. Systematic comment, 2004/2009; ‘Terrorist crimes and penitentiary reforms (1996-2004): a touch on the rudder and course corrections - in which direction?’, Criminal Law of the enemy,. 2, 2006. He has been a visiting research fellow at Hamburg (2000) and Heidelberg (2004) (DAAD) and he was awarded a Von Humboldt research fellowship in November 2005. Professor Landa has been Director of the Human Rights Office of the Basque Government from November 2005 until May 2009 where he was involved in the implementation of the victims, peace education and human rights policies (Victims of human Rights violations derived from politically motivated violence, 2009). Recently he has been researching (Visiting Fellow July-August 2010) at the Lauterpatch Centre for International Law (University of Cambridge, UK) about the differences and interferences between terrorism and crimes against humanity (‘The Shadow of crimes against humanity upon the spanish counterterrorism policy: critical thoughts’ RECPC [Revista Electrónica de Ciencia Penal y Criminología] 12-10 (2010) − http://criminet.ugr.es/recpc − ISSN 1695-0194, pp. 1-30)]. COURTENAY GRIFFITHS QC is joint Head of Garden Court Chambers and currently serves as lead defence counsel for Charles Taylor before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Mr Griffiths was called to the bar in 1980 and was made Queen's Counsel in 1998. During his career he has served as Legal Assistant to the Greater London Council's Police Support Committee, and as a Revson Fellow at the City College in New York. His practice has remained national and he has appeared in most major Crown Courts in England. His criminal practice ranges from fraud to terrorism, murder and serious public order to drugs. His appellate work has included the 'M25' appeal (Johnson, Davis and Rowe). Mr Griffiths holds an LLB (Hons) from the London School of Economics, an Honorary LLD from Leeds Metropolitan University, an Honorary LLD from Coventry University and is a Bencher for Grays Inn. WANDA E. HALL is currently founder and director of Interactive Radio for Justice (www.irfj.org) which is a project designed to encourage an informed and engaged public in communities where the International Criminal Court is investigating genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The project has been operating in The Democratic Republic of Congo since 2005, and began in the Central African Republic in 2008. In addition to producing radio programs IRfJ produces music CDs written by youth on social issues related to justice and human rights and organizes public meetings where average citizens have direct access to high level international justice authorities. Wanda has been working, mostly through media projects, to promote civic society and foster rule of law through community-level projects for 20 years, starting her overseas work in Russia in the early 1990s. She has consistently found that media is one of the most effective means to promote an educated and involved citizenship in societies which are experiencing profound transition. An American, Wanda has worked in Russia, Kazakhstan, Tanzania, Rwanda, at the International Criminal Court in The Netherlands, Cambodia, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic. Wanda earned her BA in Political Science and International Relations at Simmons College and her MA in International Policy Studies at the Monterey Institute for International Studies. JOHANNA HERMANN is a Research Fellow at the Centre on Human Rights on Conflict based at the University of East London (www.uel.ac.uk/chrc). She received her MA in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, with a concentration in human rights. She holds a BA in Social and Political Sciences from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University. Her research interests include transitional justice, peacebuilding and human rights. Her most recent research is on the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia, focusing on the participation of victims as civil parties and on the outreach efforts of the tribunal. She has also written on peacebuilding in Liberia and DDR and transitional justice. She has co-authored War, Conflict and Human Rights (Routledge, 2009) with her colleagues at the Centre and co-edited Peacebuilding and Rule of Law in Africa: Just Peace? (Routledge, 2010) and Surviving Field Research: Working in Violent and Difficult Situations (Routledge, 2009). She can be contacted through email on j.herman@uel.ac.uk. TIM HILLER is a senior lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester where he teaches Criminology, Penology and International Law. He is the author of Principles of Public International Law (Cavendish, 1999) and Sourcebook on Public International Law (Cavendish, 1998). Prior to entering academia Tim worked for a time for al Haq, a Palestinian human rights organisation based in Ramallah. He is currently engaged in research with his colleague Gavin Dingwall on the role of blame in domestic and international criminal justice. MARK HULL is currently Associate Professor of Military History, US Army Command and. General Staff College, where he teaches the War Crimes course in the Department of Military History. Formerly, a prosecutor, he has a degree in modern historian and researches espionage in Ireland for the Nazis, which appeared as Irish Secrets. German Espionage in Ireland 1939-1945 (2002). SZYMON JANCZAREK possesses an LLM General with Distinction from the University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland (1999), and an LLM Public International Law with Distinction from the University of Westminster (2009). He is currently a PhD candidate with the School of Law at Brunel University. In terms of his professional experience he has been a criminal court judge in the District Court Gdańsk (Gdańsk-Południe) in Gdańsk, Poland from 2003 to the present. Between 2007 and 2009 he was Head of the Corporate Crime Section in the 2nd Criminal Division of the District Court Gdańsk – Południe in Gdańsk, Poland and from July 2009, has been the judge seconded to the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw. From December 2009 he has been Head of the Unit for Proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights in the Department of Human Rights, Ministry of Justice, Warsaw, and from August 2010, Head of the Department of Human Rights, Ministry of Justice, Warsaw. JUSTYNA JANICKA is a third year research student in the Department of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research focuses on contemporary civil wars and conflicts and the problem of non-compliance with International Law. Her Ph.D. thesis explores the conditions under which actors choose to target civilians, while other actors, in accordance with international law, refrain from attacking civilian populations. In her PhD research, she aims to analyse a theoretical framework of compliance with international humanitarian law and socialization process to establish causal mechanisms linking changes in the normative basis of international politics to the outcomes of state compliance with international humanitarian law highlighting the growing role of international law as a normative framework for armed conflicts. She received her BA (Hons) from University of Toronto. Justyna holds an MA in European Studies from Jagiellonian University. She is currently a Teaching Assistant at Queen Mary. MELANIE KLINKNER has a Masters Studies in Philosophy, Biological Anthropology and Biology from the Universities of Freiburg and Rome, and has completed is currently working on her PhD on the interaction between international criminal law and forensic science from mass graves. Her research project concentrated on the investigative work conducted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia which led to numerous visits to The Hague, Cambodia and Sarajevo for interviews and further studying. The project was financially supported by Bournemouth University and The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation. In August 2010 she joined Bournemouth University as a Lecturer in Law and is responsible for coordinating the LLM degrees. Her current research focuses on the impact the 'right to truth' will have upon the need for forensic science and international criminal justice provisions. In particular it examines if and how the investigation and trial phase will be affected, and the ramifications a 'right to truth' has for identification efforts. ARNAUD KURZE is the Publication Editor at the Centre for Global Studies (CGS) at George Mason University (GMU) and Coordinator of CGS' 'Human Rights and, Justice and Democracy Project', funded by the Open Society Institute. He is currently pursuing a PhD. in Political Science at GMU and holds a master’s degree in Governance studies from University of Hagen, Germany, and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Sciences Po, France. His dissertation topic ‘Seeking Reconciliatory Truth(s) in the Balkans: The Dilemma of Justice and Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia’ focuses on civil society efforts to cope with past mass atrocity and grave human rights violations. His research interests are Southeast European transitional justice issues; integration and identity politics; and critical security studies. Past research includes a graduate thesis on peace building and the use of private military corporations and an honors thesis analyzing transatlantic politics of genetically modified organisms. He has published numerous articles in academic journals, reports and policy briefs for government institutions and think tanks, as well as op-eds and commentaries. He currently holds visiting fellow positions at Sciences Po Paris (France) and at the University of Zagreb (Croatia). He also taught several undergraduate and graduate classes on globalization and identity politics; social movements in the Balkans; corporate practices and geopolitics; and transitional justice issues in post-conflict societies, among others. PATRYK LABUDA works as a civilian justice advisor to the European Police Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has worked on criminal justice reform, protection of human rights and race discrimination claims. His areas of interest include international criminal law, constitutional law and legal history, and in particular truth and reconciliation commissions. He holds degrees in law and history from Adam Mickiewicz University, Université de Genève and Columbia Law School. THERESA DE LANGIS specialises in the field of women’s human rights in conflict settings. With more than 25 years experience working with the United Nations in Afghanistan, including as Deputy Country Director of Progammes for the U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM, now part of UN Women), Dr de Langis has worked also worked in Camodia and Papua New Guinea. She has more than ten years of senior programme management experience, including as the executive director of the New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Women, an executive branch U.S. state agency mandated to influence policy and legislation to advance the status of women and achieve gender equality. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago, and she has served as part of the adjunct faculty at the University of New Hampshire, and the University of Southern New Hampshire in the areas of race studies, gender studies and theory, and peace studies and conflict resolution. Dr. de Langis carries expertise in the areas of UN Security Resolutions 1325, on women, peace and security, and 1820, on sexual violence during conflict. She is a published author and frequent speaker at conferences and symposia on women in conflict/post-conflict in the U.S. and internationally. FRODE LINDGJERDET is a scholar based at the Museum of Natural History and Archaeology within the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His main research interest is in the popular memory of war and how that is conceptualized and represented in exhibitions, drama and historiography. He is also a freelance military historian, specializing in Norwegian Air Power in the inter war years, and subjects realting to the law of land warfare. He has contributed to the following English language text, Encyclopaedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History (2007), and to many other texts including (for NATO) An Encyclopaedia of International Security (2011); The Age of Imperialism 1800-1914 (2008); ABC-Clio’s World History Encyclopedia 2010; Spies, Wiretaps and Secret Operations. An Encyclopedia of American Espionage (2010); American Espionage: A Historical Encyclopedia (2009); The United States at War (2008); Encyclopedia of Global Terrorism and the War on Terror (2010). Lindgjerdet is also an officer with the task forces of the Norwegian Home Guard (the equivalent of the US National Guard). CHRISTOPHER MAHONY is a justice sector consultant based at the University of Oxford where he is a candidate for a DPhil in Politics and Treasurer of Oxford Transitional Justice Research. He holds Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) and Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degrees from the University of Otago and a master's degree in African Studies (MSc) from the University of Oxford. Chris was admitted to the bar of the High Court of New Zealand in 2006 where he appeared for the crown in criminal and refugee matters. He drafted the recommendations on governance for the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and co-authored the 'Historical Antecedents to the Conflict' chapter. In 2008 Chris directed the Witness Evaluation Legacy Project at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, designing a witness protection programme for Sierra Leone's domestic justice system. His research interests include transitional justice, international criminal law, international human rights and humanitarian law, and African history and politics. He is also author of The Justice Sector Afterthought: Witness Protection in Africa published by the Institute for Security Studies (2010). OLGA MARTIN-ORTEGA is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict (CHRC), University of East London. She holds a Law degree from the University of Sevilla (Spain) and received here in International Human Rights Law at the University of Jaen (Spain) in 2006. Before joining the CHRC she was a lecturer at Napier University, Edinburgh, and University of Jaen. She conducts research in the areas of business and human rights, post-conflict reconstruction and transitional justice. She is the author of Empresas Multinacionales y Derechos Humanos en Derecho Internacional (Bosch 2008), co-author of International Law (Sweet & Maxwell 2009, 6th ed.), War and Human Rights (Routledge 2009) and co-editor of Peacebuilding and Rule of Law in Africa. Just Peace? (Routledge 2010) and Surviving Field Research. Working in Violent and Difficult Situations (Routledge 2009). She is a funding member and sits on the Executive Committee of the London Transitional Justice Network. Directory: conferences conferences -> Simulation and Prediction of Storm Surges, Waves, and Morphological Changes due to Tropical Cyclones by Using a pc-based Integrated Coastal Process Model conferences -> Do remittances have a flip side? 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