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Key Figures in the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice Visit UCLA Law
Top: Luis Moreno-Ocampo speaks with a student. Bottom left: Luis Moreno-Ocampo and Sanela Diana Jenkins. Right: Judge Joan Donoghue.
lUiS moreno-ocampo, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), delivered a keynote address at UCLA School of Law in November. His lecture focused on questions concerning the ICC’s issuance of arrest warrants for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his son Saif al-Islam. To a packed audience, Prosecutor MorenoOcampo described the ICC’s investigation into crimes against humanity committed in Libya, including the timeline of applying and issuing arrest warrants. Prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo posed the question of whether the situation in Libya signals that the world is no longer accepting crimes against humanity, or whether this was a unique case. He also talked about the role of the prosecutor, saying that politics do not affect judicial decisions and that he must follow the criminal prosecutor's mandate. The visit, co-sponsored by UCLA School of Law’s Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project, was part of the American Society of International Law (ASIL)’s second annual Midyear Meeting, which was held at the law school. The law school was also pleased to welcome Judge Joan Donoghue of the International Court of Justice to UCLA Law as part of the ASIL event. Elected in 2010 (she is the third woman elected to the court), Judge Donoghue spoke to students about her experience as one of 15 judges on the court in The Hague. She described the function and history of the International Court of Justice, talked about the ways the court is different from national courts and gave examples of the kinds of cases the court decides, including boundary dispute cases.
UCLA Law Review Symposium Addresses Women, Race and Criminalization in JanUary, the law School hosted the UCLA Law Review symposium, “Overpoliced and Underprotected: Women, Race, and CrimiKemba Smith Pradia nalization.” The symposium convened national experts in the area of racial justice, as well as practitioners and community activists, to examine how the criminalization of women and girls is mediated through the intersection of race, class and gender. The two-day symposium opened with a screening of “When the Bough Breaks—Children of Women in Prison,” and a discussion with Kemba Smith Pradia, founder of the Kemba Smith Foundation. Panelists addressed topics including the impact of women’s incarceration on their families and communities, the effect of re-entering society with a criminal record and the ways in which law, public policy and social advocacy function to normalize widespread punishments of women of color behind prison walls. The event was sponsored by the law school’s Critical Race Studies Program and David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law Policy, as well as Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
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The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations co-hosted the premiere of “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” a film about the war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and the directorial debut of Angelina Jolie. From left: Professor Kal Raustiala, director of the Burkle Center, and Kathleen McHugh, director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, join actor Rade Serbedzija, actresses Angelina Jolie, Vanessa Glodjo, Zana Marjanović and actor Goran Kostic on the red carpet at the December 2011 event.