International Criminal Justice

Venue: Richmond Building (LT2 and LT3), University of Portsmouth or online (the joining link will be sent prior to the event)

4:00pm - Book Launch: Transnational Networks and Justice in the Global South by Dr. Tony Kirabira (University of East London)

• Discussants: Prof. Nina Jørgensen (Southampton University) and Prof. Leïla Choukroune (UoP)

5:30pm - Public Lecture by Sir Howard Morrison, Former Judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC)

Professor Nina Jørgensen, Professor of Public International Law (University of Southampton)

Nina H.B. Jørgensen has been Professor of Public International Law at the University of Southampton since 2019 and served as Deputy Head of the Law School (research) from 2019 to 2021. She was previously Professor of Law (2014-2018) and Associate Professor of Law (2010-2014) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. From 2001 to 2010, she worked in various capacities at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, as well as at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, and the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. She has also worked for the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Warsaw as the Legal Adviser for Tolerance and Non-Discrimination. She has published widely in the field of international criminal law and procedure

Sir Howard Morrison, Former Judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC)

Sir Howard Morrison has a distinguished career spanning decades in international criminal law. He was selected as a Senior Judge of the Sovereign Base Areas of Cyprus in 2008 and a Judge of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in 2009 in both trial and appellate roles. He was a trial judge in the landmark case of the former President of Bosnia, Dr Radovan Karadzic. He was elected by the Rome Statute Assembly of State Parties in New York as the UK Judge to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2012 and sat as an Appeals judge of the ICC, serving for two terms as the President of the Appeals Division. He has presided over some of the most significant war crimes trials in history and currently serves as an advisor on judicial reforms in conflict zones, including Ukraine and Sudan. He was appointed in turn, OBE, CBE and KCMG by HM Queen Elizabeth. He is a Senior Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre of Cambridge University, Hon Professor of Law at Leicester University and Visiting Professor at Northumbria University and has been a visiting lecturer at some 25 universities in the UK, Holland, Italy, Australia, the USA, China and the Middle East. He holds an Hon LLD from Leicester University and regularly undertakes advocacy training for Grays Inn and judicial training for the International Bar Association, and other institutions, in the UK and Europe and, extensively, in the Middle East and Africa.

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