Исследовательский семинар ‘Преступление агрессии: история, концепция и современное значение’, Профессор Клаус Кресс (Университет г. Кёльна)

‘THE CRIME OF AGGRESSION:

SOME REFLECTIONS ON ITS HISTORY, CONCEPT AND CONTEMPORARY SIGNIFICANCE’

Professor Claus Kress (University of Cologne)

November, 5 at 4:20 p.m. (Moscow time)

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/98480373070?pwd=WHRNZTRzYUJyQUhQazRlK3kyS3B6Zz09

Meeting ID: 984 8037 3070

Passcode: 476305

Abstract:
On 17 July 2018, the International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression was activated. The guest lecture will sketch out the key elements of the so-called Kampala amendments of the Statute of the International Criminal Court. It will also offer a few reflections on the almost century long historic journey that has allowed the first permanent international criminal court in history to prosecute State leaders responsible for aggression, on the values that underlie the criminalization of aggression and on the contemporary significance of the consensus reached by the States Parties to the Statute of the International Criminal Court on the subject-matter. 

About the speaker:

Claus Kress is a Professor of International Law and Criminal Law. He holds the Chair for German and International Criminal Law and is the Director of the Institute of International Peace and Security Law at the University of Cologne. His prior practice was in the German Federal Ministry of Justice on matters of criminal law and international law. In addition to his scholarly work, comprising more than 150 publications on the law on the use of force, the law of armed conflicts and international criminal law, he has been a member of Germany’s delegations in the negotiations regarding the International Criminal Court since 1998. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall College at the University of Cambridge, a Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Northrhine-Westfalia, and the recipient of the 2014 M.C. Bassiouni Justice Award as well as of honorary doctorates from the State University Tbilisi of and the University of Huánuco. He was a Guest Professor at Columbia Law School, Melbourne Law School, University of Kyoto and Fernand BraudelSenior Scholar at the European University Institute (Fiesole). In 2019 he was appointed ad hoc judge to the International Court of Justice in the case on ‘Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia v. Myanmar)’.

On any questions related to the event, please, contact Ms. Yulia Kozlova: yvkozlova@hse.ru.