Photo of ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda speaking at CWRU School of Law.
CWRU School of Law faculty and students aim to improve the world with their impactful research and scholarship, which are on display at the following annual events:
- Cox Center annual International law conference on topics such as climate change, the Geneva Conventions, and the “New Cold War,” featuring distinguished speakers whose articles are then published in Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, one of the oldest and most cited international law journals in the world.
- Bruce J. Klatsky Endowed Distinguished Lecture in Human Rights, featuring world renowned human rights experts such as Samantha Power (US Ambassador to the UN), Harold Koh (Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights), Prince Zeid Bin Ra'ad (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights), Ken Roth (Executive Director of Human Rights Watch), and Fatou Bensouda (Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court). The lecture is published in Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law.
- Canada-United States Law Institute bi-national conference, with articles published in the Canada-United States Law Journal.
- Regular meetings of experts that have transformed the international conversation on topics such as “Torture and the War on Terror,” "Amending the Rome Statute to add the Crime of Aggression," and “The Need to Update the Geneva Conventions.”
The Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone nominated our War Crimes Research program for a Nobel Peace Prize for the groundbreaking work students and faculty did to assist in the prosecution of Liberian President Charles Taylor. And our Yemen Accountability Project continues that tradition.