Event: Current legal developments in the field of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
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Date of Recording: 21/02/2019 Description: Genocide and crimes against humanity are the quintessential international crimes. Our understandings of these terms continue to evolve, the result of judicial and political initiatives. Recent developments in international case law and ongoing work to develop a crimes against humanity convention will be reviewed. Speaker bio: Professor William A. Schabas is a professor of international law at Middlesex University in London. He is also professor of international human law and human rights at Leiden University, emeritus professor of human rights law at the National University of Ireland Galway and honorary chairman of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, invited visiting scholar at the Paris School of International Affairs (Sciences Politiques), honorary professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, visiting fellow of Kellogg College of the University of Oxford, visiting fellow of Northumbria University, and professeur associé at the Université du Québec à Montréal. ____________________________ For more news and information on upcoming events, please visit our website at kcl.ac.uk/security-studies
