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Workshop: Victims of War / Victims of Crime: The Determination of the Status of Victims in International Criminal Law

Wednesday, October 1, 2008 12:30
Chancellor Day Hall 3644 rue Peel, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W9, CA

Presented by the Human Rights Working Group and the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, this workshop discusses recent developments in the determination of the status of victims of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity under international criminal law.

In ascertaining whether a given individual or group can qualify as a victim of these crimes, a number of recent cases at the national and international level have expanded or restricted the scope of application of international criminal justice. These developments are used as a springboard to reflect upon the way in which international criminal law conceives of victims of atrocities and mass violence and how this conception differs from those of other perspectives.

Sébastien Jodoin is a John Peters Humphrey fellow in international human rights law at the University of Cambridge and a Legal Research Fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law. He has worked in the Appeals Chamber of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and in Trial Chamber III of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. A graduate of the McGill law faculty, he also holds an LL.M. in international law from the London School of Economics and studied in international law D.E.A. programme at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

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