Donald M. Ferencz Visiting Professor Convenor, The Global Institute For the Prevention of Aggression http://crimeofaggression.info/ Middlesex University Middlesex University School of Law The Burroughs Tel: +44 (0)1628 670694 Hendon Mob: +44 (0)7884 483974 London NW4 4BT email: D.Ferencz@mdx.ac.uk United Kingdom www.mdx.ac.uk LECTURES, PUBLICATIONS, CONFERENCES, AND BRIEFINGS: Discussant and moderator of two events: Defining the Crime of Aggression and Beyond Nuremberg: The Future of International Criminal Justice, together with Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-­‐Hussein, Permanent Representative of Jordan to the UN, sponsored by Programs in Coexistence and Conflict at the Heller School and the Ethics Center at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 30 January 2013 Opening remarks and panel moderator: Legal Workshop for States Parties Interested in the Ratification and Implementation of the Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute, a workshop for delegates of States Parties to the International Criminal Court, co-­‐
sponsored by the Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression and the Permanent Mission of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the United Nations, World Forum Convention Centre, The Hague, 17 November 2012 Panel Briefing to Invited Delegates of the ICC Assembly of States Parties: “The Kampala Amendments on the Crime of Aggression: Why Ratify?, Luncheon event at the Eleventh session of the Assembly of States Parties of the ICC, co-­‐sponsored by the Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression and the Permanent Mission of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the United Nations, entitled Promoting the ratification and implementation of the Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute, The Hague, 16 November 2012. Publication: Handbook on the Ratification and Implementation of the Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, served as contributing author and worked with a group of editors as part of a collaborative effort of contributing scholars and diplomats to develop this ”how-­‐to” manual, advising States with respect to issues pertaining to ratification of the Kampala ICC Review Conference amendments on aggression, distributed to Members of the Assembly of States Parties at the Eleventh Session of the ASP during November, 2012. Published by the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-­‐Determination of Princeton University. Available online at http://crimeofaggression.info/documents/1/handbook.pdf . 1 Lecture on the crime of aggression at French judicial training program: “De la répression de la guerre, Crime d’agression”, École Nationale de la Magistrature, Paris, France, 23 October 2012. Lecture: The Crime of Aggression – Past, Present, and Future, Including Current Developments Regarding the Worldwide Ratification Campaign on the Kampala Amendments on Aggression; to graduate and doctoral international law students at the Universiteit Leiden, Campus den Haag, The Netherlands, 18 October 2012. Panellist: “Resolution RC/Res.6 on the Crime of Aggression, and required action before 2017”, presentation with co-­‐panellist Christian Wenaweser, Ambassador of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the United Nations, at the 10th, Annual Seminar of Counsel of the International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands, 16 October 2012. Conference Participant: Grotius Expert Seminar on the ICC, by invitation only closed-­‐
session discussions on the Kampala compromise on the crime of aggression with U.S. Department of State representatives, selected academics, NGO representatives and government delegates. Leiden University, The Peace Palace, The Hague, September 28-­‐
29, 2012. Invited attendee as an expert on the crime of aggression, Ministerial Program “Preventing the illegal use of force through judicial accountability: The role of the ICC and its States Parties after the adoption of the Kampala Amendments on the Crime of Aggression”, UN Headquarters, New York City, 24 September 2012. Co-­‐organizer and sponsor of the “Workshop on the Ratification and Implementation of the Rome Statute Amendments on the Crime of Aggression” in conjunction with the Permanent Mission of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the United Nations, New York City, June 25th and 26th, 2012. Guest Speaker at the Barbican Cinema, introductory commentary to accompany the showing of the film Nuremberg: Its Lessons for Today, London, England, 16 June 2012. Panellist on ICC progress on the crime of aggression, Amsterdam Law Forum Program, Ten Years of International Criminal Court, 14 May 2012, VU University, Amsterdam. Panel Moderator: The Evolution of International Criminal Law: Problems and Perspectives, with Benjamin Ferencz and Michael Byowitz, The International Law Section of the American Bar Association’s spring meeting, New York City, 19 April 2012. Lecture on the crime of aggression, “The Crime of Aggression: From de Vattel to Jackson to Kampala and Beyond”, Middlesex University seminar, Nuremberg and the London 2 Charter, with co-­‐panellists Professors William Schabas and Gregory Gordon, and U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues, Stephen J. Rapp, London, England, 22 February 2012. Co-­‐organizer and presenter, briefing on the crime of aggression to delegates at the ICC Assembly of States Parties 10th session at the U.N. in New York, December 2011, including letter to all delegations on The International Criminal Court: Commitment against the illegal use of force and progress on the ratification of the Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute and distribution of a Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression working paper to those present, reviewing the details of the Kampala amendments on aggression, entitled The way Forward on the Crime of Aggression. Lecture on the crime of aggression delivered at Denver University Sturm College of Law, September 1-­‐2, 2011 entitled “The Crime of Aggression: Who’s Trying to Kill it and Why”, available on-­‐line at http://law.du.edu/index.php/news/details/the-­‐crime-­‐of-­‐
aggression-­‐whos-­‐killing-­‐it-­‐and-­‐why-­‐with-­‐mr.-­‐donald-­‐ferencz/ . Lecture and presentation of paper entitled "Sanctioning the Crime of Aggression: Are the Nuremberg Principles Dead?" at The 7th European Peace Research Association (EuPRA) General Conference, Tampere, Finland July 20-­‐22, 2011. Panellist on the crime of aggression at The Regional Conference on the International Criminal Court sponsored by the League of Arab States and the State of Qatar in cooperation with the ICC, Doha, Qatar, 24 May 2011, Panel 1: Crimes Falling Under the Court’s Jurisdiction including Discussion of the Newly Adopted Resolution on the Crime of Aggression. Post-­‐conference paper published on the Conference website: “Possible Accession of Arab League States to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: Does ICC Jurisdiction over the Crime of Aggression Make a Difference?” available on-­‐line at http://www.icc.pp.gov.qa/DownloadHandler.ashx?pg=3690c36a-­‐4b21-­‐4f8f-­‐9176-­‐
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Convenor of the Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression, formally launched at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, 12 May 2011 at the international law symposium entitled Beyond Kampala: The ICC, the Crime of Aggression, and the Future of the Court;
conference moderator and panellist on the crime of aggression. See http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/event=11104 . Briefing at the Scottish Parliament: “Preventing Scotland from being drawn into Illegal Wars", panellist/discussant regarding possible Scottish national implementation of the amendments on aggression adopted in June, 2010 by the Assembly of States Parties to 3 the International Criminal Court, in conjunction with the Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression and the Institute for Law, Accountability and Peace, 18 January 2011 (subsequent to which the Scottish National Party resolved to make such implementation part of their party platform). Legal Journal Article: “The Crime of Aggression: Some Personal Reflections on Kampala,” Leiden Journal of International Law, volume 23, issue 04, published by Cambridge University Press, November 2010, available on-­‐line at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=7926037&jid=LJL&vol
umeId=23&issueId=04&aid=7926035&fromPage=cupadmin&pdftype=6316268&reposit
ory=authInst. Lecturer on the impact of the ICC Review Conference held in Kampala, Uganda: "Consequences of Kampala: The United States and the International Criminal Court", Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio 11 November 2010, available on-­‐line at http://www.ratedesi.com/video/v/NkYlUYAmmZM/Consequences-­‐of-­‐Kampala:-­‐The-­‐
United-­‐States-­‐and-­‐the-­‐International-­‐Criminal-­‐Court . Lecturer on the crime of aggression vis-­‐à-­‐vis national courts: “The Crime of Aggression and the Complementarity Principle”, The Road From Kampala Conference, Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina, November 12–13, 2010. Lecturer on the crime of aggression: St. John’s College, Oxford, conference entitled Building Peace, “Countdown to Kampala: Will aggressive war-­‐making finally be outlawed?” May 15, 2010, Audio podcast available at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/?feed=sjoh-­‐peace-­‐conf-­‐audio-­‐feed#sjoh-­‐peace-­‐conf-­‐audio-­‐
feed . Encyclopaedia Article setting forth the history and functioning of the International Criminal Court, The Oxford International Encyclopaedia of Peace, Oxford University Press, launch held at Magdalen College, Oxford, March 29, 2010. Participant in informal consultations on the crime of aggression, invited by Ambassador Christian Wenaweser, President of the Assembly of States Parties, as an expert on the crime of aggression, New York, March 22, 2010. Conference Observer, invited by the Office of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights to attend experts meeting on The Right of Peoples to Peace, Geneva, Switzerland, December, 2009. Law Review Article: “Bringing the Crime of Aggression within the Active Jurisdiction of the ICC,” Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vol. 42, 2009. 4 Panel Moderator: “Nuremberg Categories of Crimes and their Significance for the Present,” The Nuremberg Trial – Taking Stock, Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds, Nuremberg, Germany, October, 2009. Lecturer on the crime of aggression: Oxford University, Oxford Transitional Justice Research Institute, “The crime of aggression and the International Criminal Court: an insider's view,” June, 2009. Course participant, International Center for Transitional Justice, London, February, 2009. Invited Conference Observer, Foundation for Law, Justice, and Society, “Can International Courts do Justice? Conceptions of Justice in Responding to Conflict,” January, 2009. Lecturer on the crime of aggression: conference entitled “El concepto del Derecho en su historia y la juridificación de las relaciones internacionales”, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico, October, 2008. Symposium co-­‐chair, The International Criminal Court and the Crime of Aggression, and panel moderator “A Roundtable Discussion about the Process by which Aggression is Included in the Statute and its Effect on Non-­‐Party States” at the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio, September, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLwHLOGZ5mw . Conference sponsor and participant, “Conference on Restorative Justice and International Humanitarian Law”, in conjunction with the Marcus Garvey Pan-­‐Afrikan Institute, Kampala, Uganda, and Nairobi Kenya, August, 2008. Panellist on rule of law developments, United Nation Department of Public Information Annual Meeting and Conference, Paris, France, September 5, 2008. Law Review Article: “Commentaries on the Genocide Convention: A Reintroduction to Nehemiah Robinson,” Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vol. 40, 2008. Panel Chair: “The Origins of the Genocide Convention: From Nuremberg to Lake Success”, To Prevent and to Punish, an International Conference in Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Negotiation of the Genocide Convention, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio, September 2007. Conference sponsor and participant, International Humanitarian Law Dialogs, Chautauqua Institute (with international tribunal prosecutors), 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010. Conference sponsor and participant, Conference on International Criminal Justice, Turin, Italy, May, 2007. Conference sponsor and participant, “The ICTR Symposium on the Legacy of International Criminal Courts and Tribunals for Africa,” Arusha, Tanzania, November, 2007. Lecturer/panellist: “Darfur, the International Criminal Court, and Beyond,” Young Global Leadership Summit, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, February, 2007. 5 Lecturer/panellist: “Guantanamo Bay, Military Commissions and Recent US Supreme Court Decisions”, Salzburg Law School on International Criminal Law, Salzburg, Austria, August, 2007. Lecturer/panellist: “The International Crime of Aggression Mirrored in National Jurisdictions: Case Study of the House of Lords’ Decision in Jones & Milling et al.”, Salzburg Law School on International Criminal Law, Salzburg, Austria, August, 2006. Legal Journal Article regarding a House of Lords decision dealing with the crime of aggression, “Introductory Note to the United Kingdom House of Lords: R V Jones, et al”, American Society of International Law’s International Legal Materials Vol. 45, July 2006. Participant, United Nations NGO Millennium Forum at United Nations Headquarters, New York, June, 2000. Participant, Irish Centre for Human Rights inaugural summer program on the International Criminal Court, University of Ireland at Galway, July, 2000. Participant, Conference on "Replacing the law of force with the force of law, African
Conflicts and the International Criminal Court”, sponsored by the Committee for an
Effective International Law, Konstanz, Germany, April, 2000. Letters to the Editor: • New York Times (New York), published September, 2000 on the International Criminal Court and humanitarian intervention, reproduced on-­‐line at http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/17/opinion/l-­‐an-­‐international-­‐court-­‐170828.html • The Economist on-­‐line, February 5, 2007, criticising fallacy in the U.S. policy towards the ICC, found on-­‐line at http://www.economist.com/node/20003955/print • The Daily Mail (London), published December 2009 commenting on criminalization of aggression before the International Criminal Court PROFESSIONAL: Founder and Convenor, The Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression, a worldwide cooperative effort among lawyers, academics, diplomats and advocates, whose priority is to share ideas, information, and educational materials regarding the activation of the International Court’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression; we currently are co-­‐organizers, along with the Mission of Liechtenstein to the UN, of the worldwide campaign to ratify the 2010 Kampala amendments to the ICC Statute, so as to activate the Court’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression (2010 to present, please see http://crimeofaggression.info/). Advisory Board Member, American Bar Association’s Center For Human Rights Project on the ICC (an effort currently in formation to advance US cooperation with the ICC). Advisory Board Member, the Journal of Philosophy of International Law. Co-­‐Founder and Executive Director of The Planethood Foundation, 1996 to present, working with NGO’s and others towards establishment of the International Criminal Court and educating to replace the law of force with the force of law. Representative of The Planethood Foundation to the 6 Working Group on the Crime of Aggression of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (attending all meetings of the working group from 2005 to 2010 and serving as NGO advisor on issues pertaining to adoption of provisions on aggression, meetings held at United Nations Headquarters, New York, The Hague, Princeton, New Jersey, and at the ICC Review Conference held in Kampala, Uganda in May and June 2010). Adjunct Professor of Law, Pace University School of Law, 2001, sponsor and co-­‐initiator of the Pace Law School International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition. Tax consultant and senior tax executive, employed by Touche Ross, Deloitte & Touche, United States Surgical Corporation, The Warnaco Group, Chemtura Corporation, 1983-­‐2005, serving as senior tax executive for multibillion dollar transnational corporations. Tenured Teacher, Liverpool Central Schools, Liverpool, New York, 1975-­‐1980. ACADEMIC STUDIES AND AFFILIATIONS: Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, B.A. in Peace Studies, 1974 Canadian Peace Research Institute, Summer Program 1972 State University of New York at Cortland, Masters Degree in Education, 1975 Pace University School of Law and Graduate School of Business, J.D. and M.B.A., 1983 and 1984, respectively; Member of Law Review. Summer program in law at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1981. Internships with New York State Supreme Court, Federal Securities and Exchange Commission’s Enforcement Division, Federal Bankruptcy Court, and United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. • Member, Senior Common Room, St. Anne’s College, Oxford, 2011 – present • Visiting Professor, Middlesex University School of Law, London, England, initial appointment 2012 to 2015 •
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DATE OF BIRTH: May 11, 1952, Nuremberg, Germany UPCOMING: Panellist / Commentator: “Moving Forward with Criminalizing Aggression: Who’s Helping and Who’s in the Way?”, Law Conference at Florida International University College of Law, Miami, Florida, February 6, 2013 (program currently in formation, invited by Associate Professor Noah Weisbord) Panel Presenter, “Criminalizing the Illegal Use of Force at the ICC: Does it Matter to Africa?” Conference entitled, Africa and the ICC: One Decade On, sponsored by Africa Legal Aid (AFLA) in cooperation with The Commonwealth Secretariat and the International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC), Arusha, Tanzania, February 28 – March 1, 2013. Presenter of an active dialogue, “Closing the Impunity Gap for Perpetrators of the Worst Crimes: Law Students Making a Difference”, International Association of Law 7 Schools Annual Conference entitled, The Role of Law Schools and Human Rights, Mysore, India, March 6-­‐8, 2013. 8