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Speakers


Speakers of the Salzburg Law School on International Criminal Law are leading experts in the relevant fields of law, including scholars, judges and lawyers from international and internationalized courts and tribunals, delegates to the ICC Diplomatic Conference, the Preparatory Commission for the ICC and the first Review Conference of the Rome Statute, and representatives from intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations. 

The following experts have been, among others, our honourable lecturers since the beginning of the Salzburg Law School on International Criminal Law:


  • Dapo Akande, Co-Director, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC); University Lecturer in Public International Law and Yamani Fellow, St Peter´s College Oxford
  • Dr. Roberta Arnold, Independent IHL Consultant, Riva & Felder Solicitors, Lugano; former Legal Adviser on the Laws of Armed Conflict, Swiss Department of Defence
  • Kelly Askin, Senior Legal Officer for International Justice, Open Society Justice Initiative; formerly Legal Advisor ICTY and the Serious Crimes Unit in East Timor
  • Dr. Mohamed Elewa Badar, Lecturer in International Criminal Law and Islamic Law, Co-Director, Centre for International and Public, Brunel Law School, Brunel University
  • Prof. M. Cherif Bassiouni, Distinguished Research Professor of Law and President, International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul University College of Law (Chicago); President, International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (Siracusa); Honorary President, International Association of Penal Law
  • Dr. Morten Bergsmo, Senior Researcher, University of Oslo; Visiting Professor, Georgetown University; Consultant, ICC; Director, FICHL
  • Gilbert Bitti, Senior Legal Advisor to the Pre-Trial Division, ICC
  • Judge Rene Blattmann, Judge and former Second Vice President of the Trial Division at the International Criminal Court
  • Prof. Bruce Broomhall, Ph.D. (King's College, London School of Law), Professor of Law, Director Center for Studies on International Law and Globalization, University of Quebec
  • Toby Cadman, Defence counsel at the International Criminal Court and International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh; Former Chief Counsel to the Bosnian Special War Crimes Prosecution Department
  • Prof. Antonio Cassese, Professor of Law, University of Florence; Former President International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
  • Eleni Chaitidou, Legal Officer at the Pre-Trial Division, ICC
  • Prof. Roger Clark, Board of Governors Professor, Rutgers University School of Law
  • Prof. David Cohen, University of California, Berkeley
  • Michael Cottier, University of Fribourg
  • Richard Dicker, Director International Justice Program, Human Rights Watch
  • Dr. David Donat Cattin, Director of the International Law and Human Rights Programme, Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA)
  • Prof. Benjamin Ferencz, A former Nuremberg War Crime Prosecutor, author and frequent lecturer on international criminal courts and world peace (website www.benferencz.org)
  • Don Ferencz, Attorney; Adjunct Professor of Law at Pace Law School; Director Planethood Foundation  
  • Dr. Tathiana Flores-Acuna, Trust Fund Liaison Officer, Victims Participation and Reparations Section, ICC
  • Prof. Charles Garraway, Fellow, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex; Associate Fellow, Chatham House, International Security Programme; Former Stockton Professor of International Law, United States Naval War College
  • Dr. Irene Gartner, Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice
  • HE Justice Richard J. Goldstone, Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa; former Chief Prosecutor for the ICTY and ICTR
  • Prof. Gerhard Hafner, Professor of International Law, University of Vienna; Member of the ILC
  • Christopher Hall, Legal Advisor, International Justice Project, Amnesty International, UK
  • Gillian Higgins, Barrister UK, former Assigned Counsel to Mr. Slobodan Milosevic at the ICTY
  • Dr. Gudrun Hochmayer, Assistant Professor of Criminal Law and Procedure, University of Salzburg
  • John F. Hocking, ICTY
  • Bianca Jagger, Founder and Chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador
  • Dr. Florian Jeßberger,Humboldt University Berlin
  • Judge Claude Jorda, former President International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
  • Prof. Wolfram Karl, LL.M., Professor of International Law, University of Salzburg
  • Judge Dr. iur. h.c. Hans-Peter Kaul, Second Vice-President at the ICC
  • Steven Kay, Queens Counsel, Barrister UK, former Assigned Counsel to Mr. Slobodan Milosevic at the ICTY
  • Philippe Kirsch, President of the International Criminal Court
  • Prof. Nicholas N. Kittrie, Distinguished University Professor of Law at the American University and chairman of the United Nations Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
  • Prof. Claus Kreß, LL.M. (Cambridge), Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, European and International Criminal Law, University of Köln
  • Prof. Otto Lagodny, Professor of Criminal Law and Procedure, University of Salzburg
  • Colonel William Lietzau, US Marine Corps, Special Assistant to the General Council, Department of Defense
  • Prof. Suzannah Linton, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong
  • Robert Manson, Solicitor, Researcher, Co-founder of the UK based Institute for Law & Peace, Defence Lawyer in the English case R. vs. Jones & Milling
  • Dr. Harald Meyer, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Salzburg
  • SC Dr. Roland Miklau, Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice, Vienna
  • Paul Milling, Magistrate and City Councillor in the City of York, Peace Activist; Defendant in the English case R. vs. Jones & Milling
  • Dr. A. Sam Muller, Director, Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HIIL)
  • Salim A. Nakhjavani, Secretariat, Commission of Experts to Review the Prosecution of Serious Violations of Human Rights in Timor-Leste in 1999
  • Prof. Michael Newton, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University Law School and Department of Law, United States Military Academy
  • Prof. Daniel Ntanda Nsereko, Professor of Law, University of Botswana, Gaberone
  • Judge Alphons Orie, ICTY
  • Prof. Raul C. Pangalangan, Dean and Professor of Law, University of the Philippines, College of Law
  • HE Navanethem Pillay, Judge International Criminal Court, Former President International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  • Dr. Michael Postl, Minister Plenipotentiary, Head of Multilateral International Law Issues Unit, Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs
  • Dr. Rod Rastan, Legal Advisor in the Office of the Prosecutor, ICC
  • Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, Lecturer of international human rights litigation at the Yale Law School and the Columbia School of Law
  • Astrid Reisinger Coracini, Lecturer, Institute of International Law and International Relations, University of Graz
  • Gabor Rona, Legal Advisor, Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 
  • Prof. Christoph Safferling, Professor for Criminal Law and Procedure and International Criminal Law, University of Marburg
  • Patricia Viseur-Sellers, Legal Officer, Office of the Prosecutor, ICTY
  • Prof. William Schabas, Professor of Human Rights Law, National University of Ireland Galway, Eire; Director Irish Centre for Human Rights; Member of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission
  • Prof. Michael P. Scharf, Professor of Law, Case Law School and Director, Frederick K. Cox International Law Center
  • Dr. Carsten Stahn, Associate Legal Officer, ICC, Chambers
  • David Tolbert, Deputy Prosecutor, ICTY  
  • Jennifer Trahan, Assistant Clinical Professor of Global Affairs, NYU; Chair, American Branch of the International Law Association, ICC Committee; American Bar Association, ICC Task Force
  • Prof. Otto Triffterer, Professor for Austrian and International Criminal Law and Procedure, University of Salzburg
  • Dr. Jarinde Temminck Tuinstra, Lecturer in Criminal Law, University of Amsterdam
  • Prof. Ruth Wedgewood, Distinguished Professor of International Law at Yale University, member of the UN Human Rights Committee
  • Prof. Gerhard Werle, Professor for Criminal Law, Humboldt University Berlin
  • Dr. Peter Wilkitzki, German Ministry of Justice, Berlin
  • HE Sharon Williams, Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Judge ad litem ICTY
  • Prof. Michail Wladimiroff, Lawyer (the Hague), Defence Council ICTY and ICTR and for Charles Taylor, Professor of Economic Criminal Law, President ICLN, Former Amicus Curiae in the case Prosecutor vs. Slobodan Milosevic