The 2024 Bruce J. Klatsky Endowed Distinguished Lecture in Human Rights
Wednesday, August 28th, 2024 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Followed by a reception in the student lounge, Ben's Place
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Event Description
In recent years, international criminal law has become one of the most important enforcement mechanisms for international human rights. And no matter the conflict, Andrew Cayley has been at the forefront of the effort to ensure accountability, having held a variety of positions at five different international tribunals over the past thirty years. He has successfully prosecuted in a number of seminal cases and is currently serving as Principal Trial Lawyer at the International Criminal Court.
Cayley is a Kings Counsel and British Barrister who holds an LL.B and an LL.M from University College London. He is a professional officer graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Topping off an impressive career in the field of international criminal justice, in December 2009, the UN Secretary-General appointed Cayley to be the Chief International Co-Prosecutor of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
After serving as the International Chief Prosecutor of the ECCC in Phnom Penh for four years, Cayley returned to the UK. In 2013 he was appointed by Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as the Director of Service Prosecutions, the United Kingdom’s chief military prosecutor (the equivalent of the JAG in the US). Then, in April 2021, Cayley was appointed by the UK Attorney General to be His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service (the equivalent of Inspector General in the US)
In March 2024, Cayley returned to the Hague to take up the position of Principal Trial Lawyer at the International Criminal Court. He had previously led in one of the ICC’s first prosecution of perpetrators in the Darfur conflict and was seen as the right person for this incredibly challenging job.
Cayley is a Governing Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. In 2014 Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II appointed Cayley Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George for services to human rights and international criminal law.
About the Klatsky Lecture
The Klatsky Endowed Distinguished Lecture in Human Rights was created in 2001 by Bruce J. Klatsky, chair and CEO of Phillips Van Heusen Corp., and a member of the board of directors of Human Rights Watch. The Klatsky endowment also provides annual fellowships for two CWRU law students at Human Rights Watch. As the 2024 Klatsky Lecturer, Andrew Kaley joins a veritable "who's who" among the most impactful human rights luminaries on the planet who have delivered the Klatsky Lecture at Case Western Reserve University School of Lawa, including: 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), Navi Pillay (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights), Sir Christopher Greenwood (Judge of the International Court of Justice), Ken Roth (Executive Director of Human Rights Watch), Nicholas Koumjian (head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar), Catherine March-Uhel (head of the UN International Impartial and Independent Mechanism for Syria), Michael Reisman (President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights), Albie Sachs (anti-Apartheid activist and later Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa), Sean Murphy (member of the UN International Law Commission and President of the American Society of International Law), Paul Williams (President of the Public International Law and Policy Group), Fatou Bensouda (Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court), and most recently Professor Leila Sada (author of the International Crimes Against Humanity Treaty).
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Event Location
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
George Gund Hall
Room A59, Moot Courtroom
11075 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106
