• Start date

  20 Feb 2012

  18:30h - 20:00h

• Location

  Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS

The Decline of Universal Jurisdiction over International Crimes- Is it Irreversible?

The 10th Annual Ruth Steinkraus-Cohen International Law lecture will be delivered by Mark Ellis. The lecture is held in association with CISD, UNA Westminster and the International Committee, The Bar Council.

Mark Ellis is the Executive Director of the International Bar Association which was established in 1947 and is the world's leading organisation of international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies. With more that 45,000 individual lawyers and over 200 bar associations and law societies, it spans all continents. Its expertise provides assistance to the global legal community. Dr Ellis served as Executive Director of the Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative, a project of the American Bar Association, which provided technical legal assistance to Central Europe countries and the former Soviet Union, and to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He served as Legal Advisor to the Independent International Commission on Kosovo and was appointed by OSCE to advise on the creation of Serbia's War Crimes Tribunal. He was involved with the Iraqi High Tribunal and is presently a member of the Disciplinary Advisory Panel to the Defense Counsel for the ICTY and ICTR. He was a consultant to The World Bank on investment policies in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. His latest book Sovereignty and Justice: Creating Domestic War Crimes Courts within the Principle of Complementarity will be published by Oxford University Press in 2012.

The lecture is free to attend and will be followed by a reception.

To register your place email info@unawestminster.org.uk