Thursday, January 6, 2011

Jan 12/CLeveland OH - The Memory of Justice: The Unexpected Place of Lviv, Ukraine in International Law - A Personal History

Philippe Sands will discuss the unprecedented contributions of Hersch Lauterpacht, Rafael Lemkin, and Louis Sohn in helping to forge modern international law. Studying and working in eastern Europe in the early 1900s, these three great legal minds together drafted Nuremberg Statute Article 6, the Genocide Convention, and the International Court of Justice Statute.

Klatsky Seminar in Human Rights presented by the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center
"The Memory of Justice: The Unexpected Place of Lviv, Ukraine in International Law - A Personal History"
Jan 12, 2011 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
http://law.case.edu/Lectures.aspx?lec_id=250
Location:
Moot Courtroom (A59)

CLE Credit:
1.0 of CLE credit available, pending approval.

Additional Information:
Open to the public at no cost. One FREE hour of CLE credit will be available, pending approval, to lawyers who attend.

Please note - Recording in any form is prohibited.

DIRECTIONS TO CAMPUS * PARKING
There is no law school parking, however, public parking, for a fee, is available in the Cleveland Botanical Garden parking underground garage. Also, meter parking might be available.

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The Klatsky Seminar in Human RightsIn 2000, university trustee Bruce J. Klatsky endowed two annual fellowships for Case Western Reserve University law students at Human Rights Watch and an annual lecture, the Klatsky Seminar in Human Rights, which has featured Sir. Christopher Greenwood, International Court of Justice; Harold Koh, U.S. Department of State; Richard Goldstone, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch; and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Samantha Power.

Speaker Information:
Philippe Sands joined the Faculty of the University College of London in January 2002. He is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals in the Faculty, and a key member of staff in the Centre for Law and the Environment. His teaching areas include public international law, the settlement of international disputes (including arbitration), and environmental and natural resources law.

Prof. Sands is a regular commentator on the BBC and CNN and writes frequently for leading newspapers. He is frequently invited to lecture around the world, and in recent years has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto (2005), the University of Melbourne (2005) and the Universite de Paris I (Sorbonne) (2006, 2007). He has previously held academic positions at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, Kings College London and , University of Cambridge and was a Global Professor of Law at New York University from 1995-2003. He was co-founder of FIELD (Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development), and established the programmes on Climate Change and Sustainable Development. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of the European Journal of International Law and Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (Blackwell Press). In 2007 he served as a judge for the Guardian First Book Prize award.

As a practicing barrister he has extensive experience litigating cases before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, and the European Court of Justice. He frequently advises governments, international organisations, NGOs and the private sector on aspects of international law. In 2003 he was appointed a Queen's Counsel. He has been appointed to lists of arbitrators maintained by ICSID and the PCA.

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