22nd September 2007, Saturday, 10:00 am – 5:30 pm

2. Panel: The ICC at work – institutional challenges of the Court, 10:00 – 12:00 am

Chair: Sabine Birken, Chair of the United Nations Association in
North-Rhine Westphalia, Criminal Defence Councel

• Remarks on prosecutorial strategy in international criminal justice
  Morten Bergsmo, Senior Researcher, International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Norway
• Equality of arms: building an effective defence before the ICC
  Hadi Shalluf, Lawyer and Member of the List of Counsel before the ICC, former Ad Hoc-Counsel for the Defence in the Darfur Situation before the ICC, Member of the Paris Bar, France
• The rights and the role of victims before the ICC
  George Gebbie, Lawyer and Member of the List of Counsel before the ICC, UK
• The institutional framework of the defence and the participation of victims before the ICC
  Sam Shoamanesh, Associate Legal Officer, Division of Victims and Counsel of the ICC, The Hague

Discussion

Lunch, 12:00 am – 1:00 pm

3. Panel: Strengthening cooperation with the ICC, 1:00 – 3:00 pm

Chair: Beate Wagner, Secretary General, United Nations Association of Germany

• Cooperation between the Office of the Prosecutor, states parties and international organisations
  Miriam Spittler, Judicial Assistance Advisor, Jurisdiction, Cooperation and Complementarity Division of the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC, The Hague
• The legal instruments of state cooperation under the Rome Statute
  Christopher Keith Hall, Director of the International Justice Project, amnesty international, UK
• Achieving peace and justice: how states must support the justice mandate of the ICC
  Richard Dicker, Director International Justice Program, Human Rights Watch, USA
• Legal and logistical cooperation between the ICC and humanitarian relief organisations from the perspective of the ICRC
  Stéphane J. Hankins, Legal Advisor, Geneva
• Reinforcing national capacities to prosecute serious human rights violations
  Helen Ahrens, Justice Sector Reform Expert, German Technical Corporation, Germany

Discussion

Coffee Break

4. Panel: Complementarity and effective implementation of the Rome Statute, 3:15 – 4:30 pm

Chair: Heike Spieker, Senior Legal Advisor, German Red Cross

• The notion of universal jurisdiction
  Andreas Paulus, Professor of International Law, University of Goettingen, Germany
• Making universal jurisdiction a reality in Europe: progress and failure
  Géraldine Mattioli, Human Rights Watch, Brussels
• Law without a case: The German Code of International Crimes
  Frank Selbmann, Lawyer, amnesty international, Germany
• Implementing the German Code of International Crimes
  Christian Ritscher, Prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice, Germany

Discussion

5. Closing remarks to the conference and outlook on the ICC,
4:30 - 5:00 pm

Hans Peter Kaul, Judge at the International Criminal Court, President of the Pre-Trial Division, The Hague

Leonie von Braun, amnesty international, and Robert Heinsch, German Red Cross