On February 1, 2015, Professor Charles C. Jalloh spoke on a panel entitled, Expanding the Jurisdiction of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights at the International Bar Association’s (IBA) Annual Conference on International Criminal Law: International Legal Challenges for 2015. The speakers examined the ongoing project of the African Union to expand the jurisdiction of Africa’s human rights court to prosecute international and transnational crimes.
Professor Jalloh intervened, among other issues, on whether the African Criminal Chamber was a genuine attempt to prosecute and try serious crimes regionally or an attempt to conveniently shield the continent from the permanent International Criminal Court (ICC). The other scheduled speakers were Professor Githui Muigai, SC, the Attorney-General of Kenya, and Judge Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko, Appeals Chamber, Special Tribunal for Lebanon and former President of the Appeals Chamber of the ICC. Ms. Gillian Higgins, a noted international criminal defense attorney, moderated.
More than 300 hundred criminal and international law practitioners and academics attended the conference which took place at the Peace Palace, the seat of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, The Netherlands. The IBA is the largest organization of lawyers in the world and is based in London, England. Professor Jalloh has sat pro bono on the IBA war crimes committee’s advisory board for several years. The program is available here