2022 Scholars Forum

Welcome to the 2022 ICC Scholars Forum, created by Washington University in St. Louis School of Law and Leiden Law School.

The 2022 Virtual Forum is organized by the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and the University of Illinois College of Law.

Schedule

We will meet from 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time each day.

Thursday, 9 June 2022

Yvonne Dutton, Moderator

9:30 – 9:45 a.m. • welcome 

Welcome to 2022 ICC Scholars Forum, Leila Sadat

9:45 – 10:15 a.m. • workshop

Nancy Amoury Combs, Dissent and Legitimacy in International Criminal Law

Patrick Keenan, Discussant

10:15 – 10:45 a.m. • workshop

Leila Sadat, The Independent Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court

Saira Mohamed, Discussant

10:45 – 11:15 a.m. • workshop

Sasha Greenawalt, The Problem of Genocide

Alex Whiting, Discussant

11:15 – 11:30 a.m. • break

Time to stretch and talk informally on  Zoom.

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. • workshop

Valerie Oosterveld, Delayed Evidence of Sexual Violence:  Implications for the ICC’s Yekatom & Ngaïssona Case and Beyond

Gregory Townsend, Discussant

12:00 – 12:30 p.m. • keynote

Ambassador Beth Van Schaack, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice, Accountability and the War in Ukraine

Friday, 10 June 2022

Patrick Keenan, Moderator

9:30 – 10:00 a.m. • workshop

Yvonne Dutton & Milena Sterio, The War in Ukraine and the Legitimacy of the International Criminal Court

Rebecca Shoot, Discussant

10:00 a.m.  – 10:30 a.m. • workshop

Meg deGuzman, The Habre Effect:  How an African Trial Shaped Justice Norms

Jennifer Trahan, Discussant

10:30 – 11:00 a.m. • workshop

Nicholas Ortiz, Using the Pre-Trial Process to Make Trials More Efficient

Stuart Ford, Discussant

11:00 – 11:15 a.m. • break 

Time to stretch and talk informally on Zoom.

11:15 – 11:45 a.m. • workshop

Liana Minkova, A Battle of Ideas:  Defining Individual Criminal Responsibility in International Law

Matthew Gillett, Discussant

11:45 – 12:15 p.m. • book presentation

Randle DeFalco, Invisible Atrocities:  The Aesthetic Biases of International Criminal Justice

Courtney Hillebrecht, Discussant

12:15 – 12:30 p.m. • closing

Leila Sadat