Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
presents
The 2008 Wing-Tat Lee Lecture in International and Comparative Law
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Loyola Law Center
25 East Pearson Street
Kasbeer Hall - 5:00 p.m.
"The Future of International Criminal Justice"
by Richard Goldstone
HON. RICHARD J. GOLDSTONE
Richard J. Goldstone has served as a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, and as the chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He has taught at New York University, Georgetown University Law Center, Harvard, and Fordham Law Schools.
In April 2004, he was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the Independent International Committee to investigate the Iraq Oil for Food program. He is co-chair of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association. His most recent appointment is to chair a UN Committee to advise the United Nations on appropriate steps to preserve the archives and legacy of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
Goldstone is a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary member of the Association of the Bar of New York. He is an honorary member of the Inner Temple, London and an honorary fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. He also serves on the boards of the Human Rights Institute of South Africa, Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights, the International Center for Transitional Justice and the Center for Economic and Social Rights.
In May, 2007, he received the Richard E. Neustadt Award from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In January, 2007, he received the World Peace through Law Award from the Whitney Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies at International Law at Washington University in St. Louis.
Goldstone is the author of numerous articles on international humanitarian law. He has written forewords to several books, including Martha Minow's Beyond Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence and War Crimes: The Legacy of Nuremberg. Mass Violence examines the political and legal influence the Nuremberg trials have had over contemporary war crime proceedings. More recently, he has written about the challenge to individual human rights posed by counter-terror measures in R. A. Wilson, ed., Human Rights in the 'War on Terror'.
Wing-Tat Lee, a Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist, made a generous gift to the School of Law, which funds Loyola’s annual Wing-Tat Lee Lecture in International and Comparative Law. Each year, a distinguished scholar brings to Loyola University Chicago a variety of knowledge and experience. In addition to the lecture series in international and comparative law, the Wing-Tat Lee endowment funds the Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law. The School of Law is currently seeking a national scholar in international and comparative law to fill the recently vacated chair.
For a full list of the speakers in this lecture series, click here.
