Will Kampala Agreements make it easier for U.S. to join the ICC?

Thursday, October 14, 2010
Loyola Law School Student Lounge
919 Albany Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015

(Paid parking available in the structure next to the school)

For the first time in almost a decade, the US’s joining the International Criminal Court might be a plausible reality, and not just a pipe dream. Come listen to distinguished international legal scholars and survivors discuss their hopes, concerns and impressions of the recent changes to the ICC Treaty agreed to at the Review Conference of the Rome Treaty held June 2010 in Kampala, Uganda.

PROGRAM

3:30 p.m. Registration and Check In

4:00 p.m. Welcome

Cesare Romano, Loyola Law School
Kathy Emanuel, ICCA Secretary

ICC Film Excerpt
Voice of the Survivor

Keynote Address
Gillian Sorensen, Senior Advisor, United Nations Foundation
For video of Keynote Address: click here

5:15 p.m. Recess (15 minutes)

5:30 p.m. Panel Discussion

Moderated by Edwin “Rip” Smith, USC School of Law
Gillian Sorensen - Senior Advisor/National Advocate at the United Nations Foundation
Cesare P.R. Romano - Professor of Law and W. Joseph Ford Fellow at Loyola Law
David Kaye - Executive Director of the Law School’s International Human Rights
For video of Panel discussion: click here

6:30 p.m. Call to Action Interactive Workshop