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‘Contemporary Challenges in International Criminal Justice’

with

Professor Guénaël Mettraux
Judge, Kosovo Specialist Chambers

Adjunct Professor, Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, NUI Galway 

Time: 01:00 – 02:00 PM (Irish Standard Time)
Date: 28th September 2021
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Speaker Bio

Prof. Guénaël Mettraux is a Judge of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers. Over the past decade, he has represented several high-ranking military and civilian leaders accused of international crimes, including General Sefer Halilović (former Commander of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina), Ljube Boškoski (former Minister of Interior of the Republic of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), General Ante Gotovina (General in the Croatian Army) and Assad Hassan Sabra (Special Tribunal for Lebanon – Rafik Hariri assassination). He also acts as a consultant before the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Dr Mettraux is a Professor of Law at Dickinson Law School, PennState, a guest lecturer at SciencePo, Paris, and a guest lecturer at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He has published extensively in the field of international criminal law. His scholarly works include three books: "International Crimes and the ad hoc Tribunals (OUP, 2005), "Perspectives on the Nuremberg Trial" (OUP, 2008) and "The Law of Command Responsibility" (OUP, 2009).