by Harris Institute | Feb 25, 2016 | Commercial Law, Uncategorized
By: Tamara L. Slater Earlier this month, alumnus Kevin Ray (PhD ’98, JD ’01), Of Counsel at Greenberg Traurig, LLP in Chicago, gave a public lecture entitled “What’s Fair: Street Art, Appropriation Art, and the Law” to an overflowing classroom in the law school. His...
by Harris Institute | Dec 15, 2015 | Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, International Criminal Law, The International Criminal Court, Uncategorized, United Nations
By: Tamara L. Slater Over the last three years, there has been an increasingly robust discussion within the United Nations about a new global convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity. A few weeks ago the UN General Assembly (UNGA)...
by Harris Institute | Dec 11, 2015 | Climate Change, Environmental Law, Foreign Relations Law, Human Rights, Negotiations, Uncategorized, United Nations
By: Hari Osofsky Expectancy has dominated the last two days as people awaited each day’s new draft of the agreement. Because the negotiations are taking place behind closed doors, people use relationships to learn ever-evolving information about the state of...
by Harris Institute | Dec 9, 2015 | Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, The International Criminal Court, Uncategorized
By: Leila Nadya Sadat On November 20-22, 2015, I was in Nuremberg, Germany, at a superb series of events relating to or commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg trial. I was asked to give the opening address on the 20th itself, in Courtroom 600, 70 years to...
by Harris Institute | Nov 9, 2015 | Human Rights, International Criminal Law, The International Criminal Court, Uncategorized
By: Mathias Holvoet Following the formal establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on July 1, 2002, some expected the future of international criminal justice would center primarily around the ICC and domestic prosecutions. The ‘modest future of hybrid...
by Harris Institute | Oct 29, 2015 | Human Rights, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, The International Criminal Court, Uncategorized
By: Richard A. Goldstone (Originally posted on International Judicial Monitor) During the first week of September 2015 present and former international chief prosecutors gathered at Lake Chautauqua, in upstate New York, for the ninth annual International Humanitarian...
