Legal Alternatives to War (LAW not War): Increasing the universality and effectiveness of the ICJ
Channel: Citizens for Global Solutions
Date: 2023-10-28

#LawNotWar #ICJ #UN #internationalcriminalcourt 

This event discusses and promotes the jurisdiction and use of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as an important judicial mechanism to assist countries in resolving international disputes peacefully rather than through recourse to the threat or use of force.

Welcome
Tadashi Inuzuka
Co-President, World Federalist Movement- Institute for Global Policy. Former Senator from Nagasaki. 

Moderators
Jutta Bertram Nothnagel
United Nations Representative, International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms. Vice-President of Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy and Focal Point on the International Criminal Court. 

Alyn Ware
Program Director, World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy. International Representative, Aotearoa Lawyers for Peace. 

Speakers
Dr. Bogdan Aurescu (Romania), Member of the UN International Law Commission, former Foreign Minister of Romania, Agent of Romania before the International Court of Justice (2004- 2009) and leader of the Declaration on promoting the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice which is now endorsed by 33 countries;

Sir Kenneth Keith (New Zealand)
Judge of the International Court of Justice (2006-2015). Emeritus Professor, Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Law. Member of the New Zealand Court of Appeal (1995-2006) and NZ Supreme Court (2001 and 2003);

H. E. Mr. Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo Verduzco (Mexico)
Deputy Permanent Representative of Mexico to the UN in New York. Member, International Law Commission (2012-2022). Agent for Mexico in the ICJ Avena case (Mexico v USA);

Rebecca Shoot (USA)
Executive Director, Citizens for Global Solutions. Co-Convener, Washington Working Group for the International Criminal Court;

Tadashi Inuzuka (Japan)
Co-President, World Federalist Movement- Institute for Global Policy. Former Senator from Nagasaki; 

Neshan Gunasekera (Sri Lanka)
Research Fellow, Raoul Wallenberg Institute. Member, World Future Council. Former assistant to ICJ judge Christopher Weeramantry;

Roger Clark (New Zealand/USA)
Professor Emeritus of Law, Rutgers Law School. Representative for Samoa in the 1996 ICJ case on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, 1998 Rome negotiations for an International Criminal Court and subsequent ICC negotiations on the Crime of Aggression.

The launch of Legal Alternatives to War (LAW not War), a global campaign to enhance the universality and effectiveness of the International Court of Justice. The campaign supports the efforts of like-minded countries which have published a Handbook on accepting the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice and released the Declaration on promoting the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice.