Science Café: Is Humanitarian Law becoming a lame duck?

Is international law becoming a lame duck?

Wednesday October 22, 8.00 PM, Hotel De Wereld, Wageningen.

This Science Cafe Freedom Edition focuses on the institutions that (were designed to) support human rights and the international rule of law: the International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Court of Justice (ICJ). Central questions are ‘Are we witnessing an undermining and erosion of the international rule of law?’, ‘What does that mean for the relevance of the courts?’ and ‘Can these trends be reversed?’ By zooming in on the ‘The Hague’ institutions ICC and ICJ we hope to learn more about the difficulties of upholding international law.

The ScienceCafe is on October 22, 8.00-10.00 PM, at Hotel De Wereld in Wageningen and consists of two lectures, live music by Javier Garcia Vicente, and a Q&A with the audience. English spoken. Admission free.

Dr. Iva Vukušić is Assistant Professor in International History at Utrecht University, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. She studies mass violence and criminal accountability, especially in the international courts in The Hague. Iva spent a decade working in practice, as a researcher and analyst, at the Special War Crimes Department of the Prosecutor’s Office in Sarajevo and at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

Dr. Audrey Fino is Assistant Professor of International Law at the University of Groningen and a highly experienced international lawyer with extensive practical experience, including work at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Her academic and practical work focuses on international criminal, human rights, and humanitarian law, with specializations in freedom of expression, victims’ rights, and atrocity crimes.