The International Bar Association War Crimes Committee invites you to a webinar "Guantánamo Bay: an IHL and ICL perspective".
Date: December 8, 2022
Duration: 1430 - 1545 GMT
Language: English

This webinar will discuss the legitimacy of the Guantánamo Bay war crimes tribunals from an IHL and ICL perspective. It brings together the world’s leading IHL and ICL authorities to discuss the rights granted to detainees captured in armed conflict and whether the trial of ‘unprivileged enemy belligerents’ at Guantánamo Bay complies with the Geneva Conventions and customary international humanitarian law.

The trial of so-called ‘unprivileged enemy belligerents’ by war crimes tribunals at Guantánamo Bay is one of the most important IHL and ICL questions of the century. The question is particularly timely, given the fact that the 9/11 case (US v Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al), one of the most complex ICL cases in US history at the first American war crimes tribunal since the Second World War, is moving towards trial at Guantánamo Bay after nearly two decades of delay.

Session Chair

• John Balouziyeh, Dentons, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; North American Regional Forum Liaison Officer, War Crimes Committee

Moderator

• Karen J Greenberg, Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, New York, New York, USA

Speakers

• Colonel Fred L Borch [ret], The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center & School, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
• Michel Paradis, US Department of Defense, New York, New York, USA
• Alka Pradhan, Military Commissions Defense Organization, Washington, District of Columbia, USA; Co-Vice Chair, Human Rights Law Committee
• Kevin Jon Heller, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

The participation in the event is free.

Book online here.

Certificates of attendance for this webinar are only available to IBA members. IBA members who have attended the live broadcast for more than 30 minutes based on verified sign-in and sign-out times will be sent a certificate to the email address provided at the time of registration. Certificates can only be issued to the name provided at the time of registration. If you have any queries relating to your Certificate of Attendance, please email webinars@int-bar.org

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