Events CICJ

CICJ regularly organizes conferences and guest lecturers which are open to a general audience. In addition, monthly seminars are organized which are by invitation only.

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Conferences and seminars
The Center regularly organizes one or two day conferences focused on international criminal justice. These conferences are sometimes by invitation only, but are usually open to a wider audience.
Past conferences and seminars:
Guest lectures
The Center invites guest lecturers on a regular basis to provide lectures for one of the Master’s courses. These lectures are usually open to faculty members and students.
Past guest lectures:
- Mallika Kaur (UC Berkeley Law), 2 April 2025
- Mikhail Fishman (exiled journalist), 11 March 2025
- His Honour Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin (former President Iraqi High Tribunal), 25 November 2024
- Olivera Simić (Griffith Law School), 3 May 2023
- Maryna Slobodyanuk (Truth Hounds), 23 March 2023
- Kerstin Bree Carlson (Roskilde University), 28 March 2023
- Ojok James Onono, (poet from Northern Uganda), 24 November 2022
- Julie Jarland (University of Copenhagen), 13 October 2022
- Emily Gilbert (University of Toronto), 18 May 2022
- David Eichert (Londen School of Economics), 14 March 2022
- Arne Doornebal, former Africa correspondent, 17 February 2022
- Lindsay Freeman (UC Berkeley Human Rights Center), 16 March 2021
- Carla Ferstman (University of Essex), 25 November 2020
- Jonathan Lee (European Roma Rights Centre), 23 January 2020
- Kinga Tibori-Szabó (Kosovo Specialist Chambers), 16 January 2020
- Maja Munivrana Vajda (KNAW fellow, University of Zagreb), 28 November 2019
- Kristof Titeca (University of Antwerp), 15 May 2018
- Olivera Simic (Griffith University Antwerp), 20 April 2018
- Nesam McMillan (University of Melbourne), 2 October 2017
- Caroline Buisman (defence counsel at International Criminal Court), 30 November 2015
- James C. Simeon (York University, Toronto), 26 March 2015
- Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi (International Criminal Court), 1 December 2014
- Herman von Hebel (Registrar at the International Criminal Court), 3 December 2013
- Judge Alphons Orie (International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia), December 2012
- Xabier Agirre Aranburu (Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court), October 2012
- Dion van den Berg (Pax), October 2012
- Guénaël Mettraux (defence counsel/Professor University of Amsterdam), December 2011
- Joseph Rikhof (University of Ottawa and Senior Counsel at the Department of Justice’s Crimes against humanity and War Crimes Section), April 2012
CICJ lunch seminars (by invitation only)
The Center organizes a monthly lunch seminar, during which CICJ researchers either present their own work or discuss important current developments and case law. On occasion, we welcome guest speakers to present and discuss their research.
Below you will find a selection of past seminars as well as upcoming seminars insofar confirmed. If you are interested in presenting at a CICJ lunch seminar, please contact Willemijn Born.
Past seminars:
- Nina Petzel (CICJ), Extending universal jurisdiction over the crime of aggression: A legal-empirical analysis of the status of customary international law
- Arpita Mitra (CICJ), ‘The guilt complex’: Assessing the guilt of youth returning from terrorist groups in the narratives of justice
- Tom van den Berg & Luigi Corrias (CICJ), The moral self and the empirical study of perpetrators and resisters of international crimes
- Maarten Bolhuis (CICJ), International legal assistance to accomplish accountability for the crimes committed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide
- Annika van Baar (CICJ), A Fair Price for Human Rights Due Diligence
- Suzanne Schot (CICJ), Balancing interests to protect traumatised witnesses in court: Confrontational questions, demanding answers
- Julie Jarland (University of Copenhagen), The local impact of the ICC in Northern Uganda
- Adina Nistor (University of Groningen/NSCR), The ICC and the Construction of Evidence: A Cultural Perspective
- Yarin Eski (VU Amsterdam), A Criminological Biography of an Arms Dealer
- Yasin Huber (University of Copenhagen, visitor at CICJ), Multilateral Police Organizations and Police Forces in the International Criminal Justice System in Theory and Practice
- David Eichert (London School of Economics, visitor at CICJ), Feminist Contestations in International Criminal Law, 1990-2005
- Tasniem Anwar (CICJ), Beyond the shadow of a doubt: the prosecution of terrorism financing in European courts
- Mridula Shobinath (NSCR), The Palermo Protocol as a tool to combat human trafficking
- Fabienne Thijs (NSCR), Radicalisation and extremism in the Netherlands
- Tessa van der Rijst (CICJ), Defendants using their right to remain silent
- Fikret Demirçivi (NSCR), Reparations for Turkish victims of gross human rights violations
- Klaas Rozemond (CICJ), What did the Dutch know about the Holocaust during the occupation?
- Samuel Matsiko (Humboldt University), Geographical Approaches to International Criminal Justice: Mobile Courts and Locating Justice
- Lachezar Yanev (CICJ), Universal jurisdiction trials in domestic courts
- Francesca Anzovino (CICJ), Conduct of counsel before international criminal courts and tribunals
- Maartje Weerdesteijn & Willemijn Born (CICJ), Nonviolent resistance in Turkmenistan
- Beatriz Mayans Hermida (CICJ), Transitional justice in Colombia
- Yifang Ye (Hitotsubashi University), State practices in international crimes prosecutions in East Asia
- Gabriele Chlevickaite & Barbora Hola (CICJ), State of the art of empirical research concerning international criminal justice
- Maarten Bolhuis (CICJ), Citizenship deprivation in relation to terrorism
- Barbora Hola (CICJ) & Mark Drumbl (Washington and Lee University), Collaboration with The Secret Police in Communist Czechoslovakia and post-Communist transitional justice
- Hossein Mojtahedi (CICJ), Transitional justice in post-IS Iraq
- Marjolein Cupido (CICJ), Causality in international criminal law
- Corinne Aurelie Moussi (visiting fellow, Stellenbosch University), The ICC and recognition of the wartime experiences of African women
- Maja Munivrana Vajda (visiting fellow, University of Zagreb), Researching hate crimes in Croatia
- Patryk Gacka (visiting fellow, Warsaw University), Victimization of international crimes
- Isabella Regan (CICJ), Digital investigations and citizen’s involvement
- Lachezar Yanev (CICJ), The application of domestic laws in universal jurisdiction cases
- Timothy William Waters (Indiana University Bloomington), The Persecution of Stones: War Crimes, Law’s Autonomy and the Cooptation of Cultural Heritage
- Marianne Hirsch Ballin (CICJ), Challenges for cooperating authorities in evidence collection
- Lidewyde Berckmoes (African Studies Centre, Leiden University), Life and career ‘choices’ in the context of cyclical conflict in Burundi
- Maartje Weerdesteijn (CICJ), The relationship between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and responsibility to protect (R2P) from a global governance perspective
- Jenny Domino (CICJ’s Global Diversity Fellow 2018), The role of Facebook in the Philippine war on drugs and in Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis
- Furtuna Sheremeti (Leuven Institute of Criminology), The harms caused by state crimes committed in Kosovo as perceived by the bearers of harm and stakeholders in the country
- Gabriele Chlevickaite (NSCR), The credibility of insider witnesses
- Kevin Heller (university of Amsterdam): The alleged crimes committed against refugees in private Australian detention centers
- Suzanne Schot (University of Groningen), Misrepresentations of Truth? Testimonial Distortions throughout the Investigation and Prosecution of International Crimes
- Marjolein Cupido & Stephanie Schilder (CICJ)
- Annika van Baar (Utrecht University), Corporate involvement in international crimes
- Marjolein Cupido (CICJ), Corporate complicity for international crimes: the complaint against Rabobank
- Lianne Boer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), International law as we know it: the production of legal knowledge in the academic discourse on cyberwar and international law
- Sofia Stolk (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), A solemn tale of horror: the opening statement of the Prosecution in international criminal trials
- Barbora Hola (CICJ), Criminal justice after atrocities: a case study of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Willem de Haan (CICJ), The case of AkzoNobel in light of perspectives on organizational liability
- Daniel Wand (Leeds University), The procedural legitimacy deficit of the International Criminal Court and its consequences: South Africa’s decision to withdraw from the Rome Statute regime
- Maarten Bolhuis and Joris van Wijk (CICJ), Jihadism and the immigration process: signalling possible jihadists amongst refugees
- Kate van Doore (Griffith University, Australia), Orphanage Tourism
- Yvonne McDermott (Bangor Law School), Analysis of Evidence in International Criminal Trials
- Juan Pablo Cardona (Dirección de Justicia Transicional, Colombia), Corporate Accountability and Transitional Justice
- Emma Irving (University of Amsterdam), The obstacles to relocation post-conviction/acquittal (ICC)
- Maarten Bolhuis & Joris van Wijk (CICJ), Identifying jihadism in the immigration process
- Lily Rueda Guzman (CICJ), Colombia and the ICC
- Willem de Haan (VU), Involvement of Dutch multinational corporations in crimes against humanity in Argentina in the 1970s: The cases of Shell, Philips and AKZO
- Mark Drumbl (Washington and Lee University), The Legacy of the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland
- Elinor Fry (CICJ), The Contours of International Prosecutions
- Nicole Siller (Groningen University), The crime of ‘trafficking in persons’ and international criminal law
- Kelly Pitcher (University of Amsterdam), Remedies for procedural violations in international criminal proceedings
- Lachezar Yanev (Tilburg University), Between Myths and Facts: The Customary Status of JCE III Liability
- Barbora Hola (CICJ), Early release at the international criminal tribunals
- Sergey Vasiliev (CICJ), Reparative justice for victims at the ICC
- Annika van Baar (CICJ), Corporate involvement in crimes of Apartheid
- Kevin Jon Heller (SOAS), What is an international crime?
- Joris van Wijk (CICJ), Life after acquittal by the ICT’s
- Alexandra Popova (CICJ), The purpose requirement of aiding and abetting
- Marjolein Cupido (CICJ), Facts Matter: A Study into the Casuistry of Substantive International Criminal Law
- Cassandra Steer (University of Amsterdam), Translating Guilt: Identifying Leadership Liability for Mass Atrocity Crimes
- Alexandra Popova (CICJ), The Origins of Aiding and Abetting in ICL
- Elinor Fry (CICJ), Remedying Defective Indictments: The Limits of Amending and Recharacterizing
- Koen Vriend (University of Amsterdam), Evidence of contextual elements in Dutch and international criminal proceedings
- James Meernik (Castleberry Peace Institute, University of North Texas), Judicial Voting Behavior at the Appeals Chambers of the International Tribunals
- Sander Wirken (University of Amsterdam), Guatemala: CICIG, Claudia Paz y Paz and the genocide case
- Nesam McMillan (University of Melbourne), Imagining the International: Crime, Justice and Community on the Global Stage
- Damien Scalia (Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles), Legitimacy of International Criminal Tribunals, A perspective of the accused
- Alexandra Popova (CICJ), The Charles Taylor appeals judgment
- Magali Bobbio (ICC), Corporations and Crimes Against Humanity in Argentina
- Barbora Hola & Jessica Kelder (CICJ), Life after conviction
- Elies van Sliedregt (CICJ), Aiding and abetting (specific direction)
- Sarah Joseph (Monash University), Protracted Lawfare: The Tale of Chevron Texaco in the Amazon
- Christina DeJong (Michigan State University), Male Rape and Transitional Context: A Comparison of War Rape and Prison Rape
- Krit Zeegers (University of Amsterdam), The Impact of International Human Rights Law on International Criminal Procedure
- Ayşe Gül Altınay (Sabanci University of Istanbul), Who Is a Survivor in a Genocide? The Gendered Silencing of Islamized Armenian Survivors in Turkey
- Caroline Fournet (University of Groningen), ¿Dónde están? – Between Crimes against Humanity and Genocide: A Legal Analysis of Enforced Disappearances in Argentina
- Sergey Vasiliev (CICJ), Unraveling SCSL Justice Sow’s Riddle
- Joris van Wijk & Maarten Bolhuis (CICJ), Rwandan Genocidaires in the Netherlands
- Willem de Haan (CICJ), Knowing What We Know Now: International Crimes in Historical Perspective
- Elinor Fry (CICJ), Lubanga and the Use of Intermediaries
- Barbora Hola (CICJ), Charles Taylor: Judgment and Sentencing
- Marjolein Cupido (CICJ), Co-Perpetration in the Lubanga Judgment
- Marieke de Hoon (CICJ), How Senegal Violated the CAT by not Extraditing Habré, and the Creation of the “Extraordinary African Chambers”
- Nancy Combs (William and Mary Law School), Fact-Finding Without Facts

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