The International Criminal Court

Monday 30 April 2007

Monday 30 April 2007

5.30

7.00

Larmor Lecture theatre- Queen's University Belfast

Free

Event

The prestigious Annual MacDermott Lecture will be held on Monday 30 April at 5.30pm.

The speaker will be Professor William Schabas, and the lecture title is "The International Criminal Court: Sixty Years After Nuremberg, a Permanent Court is Now in Operation."

Professor William A. Schabas is director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where he also holds the chair in human rights law. Professor Schabas holds BA. and MA degrees from the University of Toronto and LLB, LLM. and LLD degrees from the University of Montreal. William Schabas is an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Professor Schabas is the author of eighteen monographs dealing in whole or in part with international human rights law, including Introduction to the International Criminal Court (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 2nd ed.), Genocide in International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 3rd ed.), International Human Rights Law and the Canadian Charter (Toronto, Carswell, 1996), The Death Penalty as Cruel Treatment and Torture (Boston, Northeastern University Press, 1996) and Précis du droit international des droits de la personne (Montréal, Éditions Yvon Blais, 1997). He has also edited many collections of essays and similar volumes.

In May 2002, the President of Sierra Leone appointed Professor Schabas to the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, upon the recommendation of Mary Robinson, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He served as one of three international commissioners throughout the activities of the Commission, from 2002 to 2004.

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