The CAH Initiative welcomes everyone to a one-day symposium to discuss the emerging Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity. Global experts, advocates, and diplomats will convene to explore the need for such a treaty, alongside key questions of treaty design and negotiation.
We are thrilled to host the symposium, as WashU Law has been at the forefront of developing a treaty on crimes against humanity since it hosted the world’s first conference on the topic in 2009. The process reached an essential milestone in 2024, when U.N. General Assembly Resolution 79/122 advanced the Draft Articles out of the U.N. Sixth (Legal) Committee and set a five-year process for States to negotiate and conclude the new global treaty.
The symposium will convene experts who have contributed to this sixteen-year process. This includes our very own Professors Leila Sadat and MJ Durkee, alongside Colonel Brenda Hollis (USAF, Ret.) (Prosecutor, International Criminal Court); Professor Patricia Galvao Teles (Member, International Law Commission); Ms. Ana Paula Lavalle Arroyo (U.N. Legal Adviser, Mexico); Mr. Amadou Jaiteh (U.N. Legal Adviser, The Gambia); Ms. Akila Radhakrishnan (Atlantic Council); Professor Larry D. Johnson (Vienna Diplomatic Academy); Mr. Hugo Relva (Amnesty International; Mr. Pablo Arrocha (Legal Adviser, Foreign Ministry of Mexico), and many others.
The event is open to the public but pre-registration is encouraged: https://lnkd.in/gcHuMAM3.
Thank you to the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute, WashU Law International Law Students Association, Washington University Global Studies Law Review, WashU Law Veterans Association, and WashU Law’s Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Program (NDR) for co-sponsoring this event.
