Handling the results of the first Review Conference --
Success and failures equally obliging to continue consolidating and amending international criminal law and its enforcement mechanisms
Twelfth Summer Session, Sunday 8 to Friday 20 August 2010
Keynote Speaker SLS 2010: Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni Challenges of the International Criminal Court in the Next Decade (draft title)
Confirmed speakers include: Gilbert Bitti, Senior
Legal Advisor, International Criminal Court; René Blattmann, Judge, International
Criminal Court; Dr. David Donat Cattin, Director, International Law and Human
Rights Programme, Parliamentarians for Global Action; Gillian Higgins, Defence
Counsel in international criminal cases; Steven Kay QC, Defence Counsel in
international criminal cases; Suzannah Linton, Associate Professor of Law,
University of Hong Kong; Daniel N. Nsereko, Judge and President of the Appeals
Division, International Criminal Court, Professor of Law, University of
Botswana, Gaberone; Prof. William A. Schabas OC MRIA, Director, Irish Centre
for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway; Prof. Goran Sluiter, Professor
of Criminal Law and Procedure, University of Amsterdam; Jarinde Temminck
Tuinstra, Lecturer in Criminal Law, University of Amsterdam; Prof. Otto
Triffterer, Professor of Austrian and International Criminal Law, University of
Salzburg; Astrid Reisinger Coracini,
Lecturer, Institute of International Law and International Relations,
University of Graz.
Courses run Monday 9 through Thursday 19
August, daily from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. with a free week-end. The programme consists of lectures, work-shops and case studies and will be
held at the University of Salzburg, Faculty of Law, a 16th-century residence
located in the centre of the old town. Each presentation will be followed by an
extensive discussion, chaired by Prof. Triffterer.
Participants will obtain
a certificate of attendance, but may also take an exam for which 4 credits
according to the European Credit Transfer System are available.
