Symposium
Details
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Konrad Adenauer Conference Center, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem
17:00-17:30 Registration and Reception
17:30-18:00 Greetings
18:00-19:30 Keynote Address
Address: Judge Theodor Meron
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
The Minimum Humanitarian Standards project as an attempt to complement IHL – then and now
Response: Prof. Francoise Hampson
University of Essex
Monday, June 2, 2008
Konrad Adenauer Conference Center, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem
09:30-11:00 Panel I: Broadening the Normative Framework
Chair: Dr. Iris Canor
College of Management Academic Studies
Speakers: Ms. Valentina Falco
European University Institute
The internal legal order of international and regional organizations as a complementary framework for their obligations under IHL: The case of the European Union
Prof. Dr. Andreas Paulus
University of Göttingen
Towards a merger of humanitarian law and human rights law? The development of the relationship between humanitarian law and human rights law in Europe
Mr. Charles Shamas
Mattin Group, Ramallah
Peremptory norms, the duty of non-recognition, propriety and legal syncretism: Getting states to mind their own business
11:30-13:00 Panel II: Regulating Non-international and other Atypical Conflicts
Chair: Dr. Hala Khoury-Bisharat
Tel-Aviv University; College of Management Academic Studies
Speakers: Prof. David Kretzmer
Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Ramat Gan Academic Center of Law and Business; University of Ulster
Rethinking application of IHL in non-international armed conflicts
Prof. Dino Kritsiotis
University of Nottingham; University of Michigan
War, armed conflict and characterizations of the war on terror
Prof. Yuval Shany
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Possible directions for regulating the situation in Gaza
13:00-14:30 Recess
14:30-16:30 Panel III: Conceptualizing Modern Challenges to IHL
Chair: Prof. Moshe Hirsch
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Speakers: Mr. Anthony Dworkin
Executive Director, Crimes of War Project
Regulating the spectrum of violence: A conceptual overview
Adv. Rotem Giladi
University of Michigan
Hidden agenda: The broad normative setting of occupation law
Adv. Michael Lieberman
Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington DC
Pragmatism and principle in International Humanitarian Law
Ms. Daphné Richemond-Barak
Tel-Aviv University
Private military companies and combatancy status under IHL
17:00-18:30 Panel IV: The Laws of State Responsibility as a Normative Source
Chair: Prof. Frances Raday
Hebrew University of Jerusalem; College of Management Academic Studies; University College London
Speakers: Dr. Amichai Cohen
Ono Academic College
IHL rules on economic sanctions?
Prof. Francoise Hampson
University of Essex
State responsibility for the extra-territorial acts of armed forces which are not regulated by IHL
Dr. Yaël Ronen
Ono Academic College
Protect or compensate – liability for ‘incidental injury’?
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Van Leer Institute, 43 Jabotinsky St., Jerusalem
09:30-11:00 Panel V: The Complementary Role of Institutions
Chair: Dr. Robbie Sabel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Speakers: Prof. Emiliano Buis
University of Buenos Aires
From La Tablada to Guantanamo Bay: The challenge of new conflict situations in the experience of the Inter-American system of human rights protection
Mr. Gilad Noam
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Complementing IHL: Is there a role for international criminal courts and tribunals?
Dr. Ralph Wilde
University College London
Complementing occupation law? Selective judicial treatment of the suitability of human rights norms
11:30-13:00 Panel VI: Norms Governing the War On Terror
Chair: Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Speakers: Prof. Geoffrey Corn
South Texas College of Law
Untying the Gordian Knott: A proposal for determining applicability of the laws of war to the war on terror
Dr. Knut Dörmann
Head of Legal Division, ICRC, Geneva
The role of IHL in the fight against terrorism
Prof. Claus Kress
Köln University
Towards a new international legal regime against transnational terrorism: An asymmetrical regime of extraterritorial law enforcement including (adjusted) elements of the law of armed conflict
13:00-14:30 Recess
14:30-16:30 Panel VII: Summing Up
Chair: Adv. Eitan Diamond
Legal Adviser, ICRC, Tel-Aviv
Rapporteur: Dr. Hilly Moodrick – Even Khen
Sha'arei Mishpat College
Comments: Adv. Sari Bashi
Director, Gisha: Legal Center for Freedom of Movement
Col. Pnina Sharvit-Baruch
Head of International Law Division, Military Advocate General's Office, IDF
Roundtable: Concluding discussion