Lunch seminar with Nina Jorgensen
Justice for International Crimes and the Many Moves Time Makes
Justice, especially at the international level, is in apparent competition with the ‘time of human beings’. This competition is played out on many levels, including the timing of justice in the sense of when the discovery of truth and meting out of punishment should prevail, having in mind concerns of domestic and international political will and stability, and a society’s need for peace and reconciliation; the time lag between describing conduct as being shocking to the conscience of humankind and recognising it as contrary to international law; and the time it takes to deliver justice before a permanent court such as the ICC or an ad hoc mechanism. This book project examines the relationship between time and justice philosophically, comparatively, and practically with a view to explaining the endurance of the ever-evolving architecture of justice for international crimes.
Speaker bio
Nina H. B. Jørgensen is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Southampton and a Judge at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague. She was previously a Professor of Law in Hong Kong and worked for nine years in various roles at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in Phnom Penh, and the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, among other organisations. Prior to these assignments, she was a post-doctoral researcher in international criminal law at the University of Leiden, having obtained her doctorate from the University of Oxford.
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