Event: The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court

 

Johns Hopkins SAIS Rome Auditorium

1619 Massachusetts Ave NW

 Screening excerpt of the film from 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on November 16, 2009 

 followed by panel discussion from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Please RSVP by clicking this LINK

To find out more, email MatthewJOwens@gmail.com

 

Topics of discussion will include:

Should the U.S. positively engage the ICC?

 Should sitting heads of state be indicted by the ICC? If so, who should make the arrests?

 Do ICC prosecutions run the risk of becoming politicized? 

Should the crime of aggression be included in the set of crimes within the jurisdiction of the ICC? 

Should the ICC investigate the post-election violence in Kenya? 

Should the ICC investigate last year’s Gaza conflict?

 

Ruth Wedgwood: Professor of International Law and Diplomacy and Director of the Program in International Law and Organizations at John Hopkins University. Served on the American Society of International Law task force to examine the U.S. relationship with the International Criminal Court. Independent expert for International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. 

Kenneth Anderson: Professor of Law at Washington College of Law, American University, and a research fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Holds expertise in international human rights, international laws of war, terrorism and state terrorism, and the theory of just war.

John B. Bellinger III: Partner in Arnold & Porter's national security and international practice and Adjunct Senior Fellow in International and National Security Law, Council on Foreign Relations.  Served in a number of senior positions in the US government, including as the Legal Adviser to the Department of State from 2005 to 2009 under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Op-Ed entitled "A Global Court Quandary for the President" published in the Washington Post on August 10, 2009.

Gary D. Solis: Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University. For six years he headed West Point's law of war program. His books are Marines and Military Law in Vietnam; and Son Thang: An American War Crime; and The Law of Armed Conflict, in progress for Cambridge University Press.

Jane E. Stromseth: Professor of Law at Georgetown University. She is co-author of Can Might Make Rights? Building the Rule of Law After Military Interventions (2006) and editor of Accountability for Atrocities: National and International Responses (2003).  She has also written many articles on topics including constitutional war powers, humanitarian intervention, post-conflict justice, and law and the use of force.

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