Thursday 5 May, 6.30pm

Please note CHANGE OF VENUE:

Shaw Library, 6th floor, Old Building, LSE

The Trial of the Juntas: Rewriting the History of International Criminal Law

Speakers: Luis Moreno Ocampo (First Prosecutor of International Criminal Court); Professor Ruti Teitel (New York Law School); Professor Gerry Simpson (LSE)

Limited Places RSVP rsvp@matrixlaw.co.uk

PAST EVENTS:

Monday 21 March, 6pm (Matrix Chambers)

The Liability of Empire: Mau Mau, Batang Kali and other colonial claims

Speakers: Professor Caroline Elkins (Harvard University and Pulitzer prize-winning historian); Richard Hermer QC; Liora Lazarus (University of Oxford)
 

Monday 8 June 2015, 6pm (Matrix Chambers)

The Chagos Islander Award: Marine Protection or Population Resettlement?

Speakers: Lord Hope of Craighead; Professor John Finnis (University of Oxford); Philippe Sands QC (Matrix Chambers); Dr Michael Waibel (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 6.30pm (LSE)

Whales in the ICJ: Assessing the International Judicial Function

Speakers: Professor Hilary Charlesworth (ANU); Professor James Crawford QC (University of Cambridge);  Dr Gleider Hernández (University of Durham)

Tuesday 15 April 2014, 6pm (Matrix Chambers)

The Gul case: Continuing Challenges in the Definition of Terrorism

Speakers: David Anderson QC (Brick Court Chambers); Yasmine Ahmed (incoming Director of Rights Watch (UK)); Professor Ben Saul (University of Sydney)

Tuesday 13 February 2014, 6.30pm (LSE)

Kadi II in the CJEU: Judicial Review v UN Ombudsperson

Speakers: Ben Emmerson QC (UN Special Rapporteur for Counter-terrorism and Human Rights); Professor Carol Harlow (LSE); Kimberly Prost (UN Ombudsperson)

The LSE/Matrix seminar series is run jointly by LSE Law and Matrix Chambers. For further information or to propose a seminar topic, please contact Dr Devika Hovell at D.C.Hovell@lse.ac.uk.