Breakfast Briefing with Frederik Harhoff

State Responsibility for Genocide and Prosecution of Individuals

Abstract

During his breakfast briefing, Frederik Harhoff will provide some practical and legal observations on South Africa’s case against Israel for genocide and Nicaragua’s case against Germany for complicity in genocide before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and on the request of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Arrest Warrants against Netanyahu and others for crimes against humanity and war crimes. Has the ICJ engaged itself in a political contest by accepting to hear the cases under the Genocide Convention, and will the ICC eventually issue arrest warrants against the suspects?

About the Speaker

Frederik Harhoff is professor emeritus of International Law and International Humanitarian Law at the Department of Law with the University of Southern Denmark in Odense (2013-2016). He served as Senior Legal Officer and Head of Chambers with the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) from 1996 to 1998 and held that same position with the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) from 2002 to 2005. From 2006 to 2013, he served as Judge ad litem with the ICTY. 

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