Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism – Centre sur les droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique & Société québécoise de droit international

17 February 2006
Faculty of Law
3644 Peel, Room 202

Conference Programme

9h00 – 9h15 Welcome: René Provost (McGill & SQDI)

9h15 – 10h30 Panel 1: Taking Stock of Current Challenges facing Hybrid Courts

Chair: Valerie Oosterveld (U. of Western Ontario)

Panelists:
David Crane (Former Prosecutor SCSL)
Theme: Special Court for Sierra Leone
Jan Kleffner (University of Amsterdam)
Theme: East Timor Serious Crimes Panel

10h30 – 10h45 Break

10h45 – 12h00 Panel 2: Taking Stock of Current Challenges facing Hybrid Courts (cont’d)

Chair: Ariane Brunet (Rights and Democracy)

Panelists:
Peter Leuprecht (UQAM & UN SG Special Representative for Cambodia)
Theme: Extraordinary Chamber for Khmer Rouge Crimes
Stéphane Bourgon (ICTY defence counsel)
Theme: Referrals to the Bosnian War Crimes Chamber

12h00 – 14h00 Lunch (Faculty of Law Common Room)

14h00 – 15h30 Panel 3: Relations with other entities

Chair: Luc Côté (former SCSL Chief of Prosecution)

Panelists:
Richard Dicker (Director, International Justice Project, Human Rights Watch, NYC)
Theme: strategies for Burundi
Frédéric Mégret (McGill)
Theme: theoretical justification of hybrid courts, with a focus on Iraq
Caitlin Reiger (former legal officer, SCSL and In’t Centre for Transitional justice, NYC)
Theme: contribution to domestic courts

15h30 – 15h45 Break

15h45 – 17h15 Panel 4: Contribution to post-Conflict reconciliation

Chair: Chile Eboe-Osuji (former ICTR prosecutor)

Panelists:
Payam Akhavan (McGill & former prosecutor, ICTY)
Theme: Potential and limits of international criminal law
Bruce Broomhall (UQAM)
Theme: Civil society and hybrid courts
Chandra Sriram (London)
Theme: the SCSL and society in SL

17h15 – 17h30 Concluding Word: René Provost (McGill & SQDI)

19h00 – 22h00 Dinner

Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism – Centre sur les droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique

& Société québécoise de droit international

17 February 2006
Faculty of Law
3644 Peel, Room 202

Conference Programme

9h00 – 9h15 Welcome: René Provost (McGill & SQDI)

9h15 – 10h30 Panel 1: Taking Stock of Current Challenges facing Hybrid Courts

Chair: Valerie Oosterveld (U. of Western Ontario)

Panelists:
David Crane (Former Prosecutor SCSL)
Theme: Special Court for Sierra Leone
Jan Kleffner (University of Amsterdam)
Theme: East Timor Serious Crimes Panel

10h30 – 10h45 Break

10h45 – 12h00 Panel 2: Taking Stock of Current Challenges facing Hybrid Courts (cont’d)

Chair: Ariane Brunet (Rights and Democracy)

Panelists:
Peter Leuprecht (UQAM & UN SG Special Representative for Cambodia)
Theme: Extraordinary Chamber for Khmer Rouge Crimes
Stéphane Bourgon (ICTY defence counsel)
Theme: Referrals to the Bosnian War Crimes Chamber

12h00 – 14h00 Lunch (Faculty of Law Common Room)

14h00 – 15h30 Panel 3: Relations with other entities

Chair: Luc Côté (former SCSL Chief of Prosecution)

Panelists:
Richard Dicker (Director, International Justice Project, Human Rights Watch, NYC)
Theme: strategies for Burundi
Frédéric Mégret (McGill)
Theme: theoretical justification of hybrid courts, with a focus on Iraq
Caitlin Reiger (former legal officer, SCSL and In’t Centre for Transitional justice, NYC)
Theme: contribution to domestic courts

15h30 – 15h45 Break

15h45 – 17h15 Panel 4: Contribution to post-Conflict reconciliation

Chair: Chile Eboe-Osuji (former ICTR prosecutor)

Panelists:
Payam Akhavan (McGill & former prosecutor, ICTY)
Theme: Potential and limits of international criminal law
Bruce Broomhall (UQAM)
Theme: Civil society and hybrid courts
Chandra Sriram (London)
Theme: the SCSL and society in SL

17h15 – 17h30 Concluding Word: René Provost (McGill & SQDI)

19h00 – 22h00 Dinner