The Past and Present: The 20th Century, atrocity, the rule of law, and the laws of armed conflict in an age of extremes.
A round table discussion exams if the laws of armed conflict are relevant? Discussants include David M. Crane, Special Court for Sierra Leone; Sir Desmond DeSilva, Special Court for Sierra Leone; Whitney Harris, International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg; Hassan Jallow, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; Henry King, International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg; Luis Moreno-Ocampo, International Criminal Court; Robert Petit, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia; Stephen Rapp, Special Court for Sierra Leone; and David Tolbert, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavi.
The conference was hosted by The American Society of International Law (ASIL), in cooperation with The Robert H. Jackson Center, Washington University's Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies, Syracuse University College of Law, and the Chautauqua Institution.
Bio
David M. Crane
David M Crane is an American who was the Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone from April 2002 until July 15, 2005.
Sir Desmond DeSilva
Sir Desmond Lorenz de Silva, QC, KStJ, is a prominent British lawyer, and former United Nations Chief War Crimes Prosecutor in Sierra Leone.
Whitney R. Harris
Whitney R. Harris was a prosecutor for the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg following World War II. His 50-year legal career included government, corporate and private practice as well as teaching.
Hassan Jallow
Born in the Gambia in 1950 Hassan B. Jallow, studied law at the University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania (1973), the Nigerian Law School (1976) and the University College, London (1978). He worked as State Attorney in the Attorney Generals' Chambers in the Gambia from 1976 until 1982 when he was appointed Solicitor General.
Justice Hassan Bubacar Jallow served as Gambia’s Attorney-General and Minister of Justice from 1984 to 1994 and subsequently as a Judge of the Gambia’s Supreme Court from 1998 - 2002. In 1998, he was appointed by the United Nations Secretary General to serve as an international legal expert and carry out a judicial evaluation of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia. He also has served as a legal expert for the Organisation of African Unity and worked on the drafting and conclusion of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights which was adopted in 1981. He has also served the Commonwealth in various respects including chairing the Governmental Working Group of Experts in Human Rights. Until his appointment as Prosecutor to the ICTR, Justice Jallow was a Judge of the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone on the appointment of the UN Secretary-General in 2002 as well as a member of the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal.
Justice Jallow was awarded the honour of Commander of the National Order of the Republic of Gambia.
Henry King
Henry T. King Jr. was a U.S. Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, a legal practitioner and an academic writer.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo
Luis Moreno-Ocampo is the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
He is responsible for investigating and prosecuting war crimes [crimes against humanity and genocide]. Moreno-Ocampo was born in Buenos Aires and is a citizen of Argentina where he gained a reputation prosecuting abuses by senior military officials and for his work to combat corruption.
Robert Petit
Robert Petit is Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.
Stephen Rapp
Stephen J. Rapp of Iowa is Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues. Appointed by President Obama, he was confirmed by the Senate, and assumed his duties on September 8, 2009. Prior to his appointment, he served as Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone beginning in January 2007, leading the prosecutions of former Liberian President Charles Taylor and other persons alleged to bear the greatest responsibility for the atrocities committed during the civil war in Sierra Leone. During his tenure, his office achieved the first convictions in history for sexual slavery and forced marriage as crimes against humanity, and for attacks on peacekeepers and for recruitment and use of child soldiers as violations of international humanitarian law.