• Start date

  9 Feb 2012

  18:00h

• Location

  Institute for Advanced Legal Study, 17 Russell Square, WC1B 5DR

Dr Dan Plesch, Director of CISD, will discuss the history and implications for modern International Criminal Law of the work of the UN War Crimes Commission (UNWCC) based in the Royal Courts of Justice and of the many national tribunals it supported which were at work in the later 1940s. His work draws on work on the generally inaccessible and overlooked files of the Commission in New York. These concern the development and implementation of law concerning; crimes against states' own citizens, wars of aggression, environmental destruction, abuse of cultural practices and sexual violence before and alongside the Nuremburg and Tokyo processes.

To register email IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk or sign up here. Admission is free.

Read more about the Centre's research on the UN in World War II.