the International Criminal Court and the state of International Criminal Law

  • Conférence
  • 24 mars 2022
  • 15h-16h

Professor Harry POST will give a farewell speech on the International Criminal Court (ICC).

24
mars

Valedictory lecture
In perspective: the International Criminal Court and the state of International Criminal Law

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After 10 years teaching in Lille, Professor Harry POST will give a farewell speech on the International Criminal Court (ICC) which is under constant attack
(too costly, only African cases, cases that go wrong, etc.). Although this is certainly somewhat overdone -and perhaps we expect too much-, there is some
reason for concern. Surprisingly International Criminal Law itself seems healthier than ever. It will be argued that this is also a result of the ICC.


Harry post

Visiting Professor of International Law, Faculté de Droit, at the Université Catholique de Lille (France)

Professor of International Law, ret., University of Exeter, UK.

Harry H.G. Post is currently a Visiting Professor at the Université Catholique de Lille (France), where he teaches International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law. In 2002, he retired as Professor of International Law at the University of Exeter, where he has been Honorary Professor until 2008. Harry H.G. Post was previously Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria (Canada), at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome. He was additionally a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (Germany) and a Leverhulme Fellow at Queen Mary’s University of London. His research interests include International Humanitarian Law and (the future of) International Criminal Law, Management of Waste in Environmental Law and Territorial Sovereignty and Conflict. He has recently published The State of a Human Right to a Healthy Environment, in the 2019 Israel Yearbook of Human Rights and is currently finalising a book entitled Territorial Sovereignty: its Acquisition and Loss in Modern International Law.