Special Lecture Presented by The Top Global University Project New Unit Global Asia Studies: Toward Reconciliation and Sustainable Development
The Shift toward International Criminal Law
Challenges Arising from a New Enforcement Regime
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How should the international community confront contemporary difficult issues, such as recurrent terrorist acts and inhumane or cruel treatment of prisoners of war and civilians in civil strife? One of the methods chosen was to try the perpetrators of those acts for violating international humanitarian law, typically by the International Criminal Court. Judge Pangalangan is working at the center of this trend, and will tell us vividly how this new approach is being run.
- Admission: Free
- Language: English
- Venue: Multi-Purpose Lecture Room (No. 104, First Basement), Okuma Memorial Tower (Building No.26, Waseda Campus)
- Audience: Students, faculty, staff and general public
- Organizer: Global Asia Studies: Toward Reconciliation and Sustainable Development
- Co-organizer: CAMPUS Asia: East Asian Global Leadership Program for Multi-layered Conflict Resolution and Social Innovation
- Contact: [email protected]
Speaker: Judge Raul Cano Pangalangan, International Criminal Court
Judge Pangalangan has been a judge of the International Criminal Court since 2015. Prior to that, he was a Professor of Law and former Law Dean at the University of the Philippines. He has taught inter alia at the Harvard Law School and The Hague Academy of International Law. He is a contributing author to the Commentary on the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court. A Member of the Philippine Bar since 1984, he has argued before the Philippine Supreme Court and has been designated as amicus curiae in leading constitutional law and international law cases. He was a Philippine Delegate in the drafting of the Rome Statute in 1998 and co-chaired the national campaign for ratification by the Philippines and other Asia-Pacific states. He sits in the governing councils of the Asian Society of International Law.
