CHALLENGES OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Professor Albin Eser, of the University of Freiberg/Germany and Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Law, visited the University of Houston Law Center on November 2, 2009 to present a lunch talk, titled “CHALLENGES OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Reflections of a Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague.”

“In assuming that for an American audience it might be of particular interest to hear a little bit about the experiences of judge who, as in my case, comes from a continental-European tradition, I would like to concentrate my talk on frictions resulting from the ICTY-procedure as a hybrid of common law and civil law traditions which are difficult to handle in practice. So, in order to have a lively discussion, I will primarily address aspects in which the adversarial system does not appear as the best preferable procedure of handling complex international crimes.”

Prof. Eser’s talk was held from 12:12:50 on November 2, 2009.