The International Criminal Court in a New Era with Phillip Kirsch, President of ICC (at the time) and Hon. Patricia Wald

Citizens for Global Solutions,
The United Nations Association of the National Capital Area and
the United Nations Association of the United States of America

cordially invite you to

The International Criminal Court in a New Era

Featuring

Phillip Kirsch
President of the International Criminal Court

introduced by

The Honorable Patricia Wald

Friday, February 13 at 10 a.m.
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2200
Independence Ave and South Capital Street SW, Washington, DC
Please RSVP by February 11, 2009 to RSVP@unanca.org with "ICC event" in the subject line.

Learn more about the International Criminal Court (ICC). Relevant Issues:

• The ICC has begun its first trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, a militia commander in the Democratic Republic of Congo accused of conscripting child soldiers. .
• The ICC is expected to indict Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese President with war crimes.
• The Obama administration is reevaluating the U.S. relationship with the ICC.
• The Court's prosecutor has been asked to consider looking into the situation in Gaza and will determine if the Court has jurisdiction.

Judge Phillippe Kirsch is a Canadian lawyer and has served as the President of the International Criminal Court since March 2003. He has extensive experience in the establishment of the International Criminal Court, international humanitarian law, international criminal law and public international law. In 1998 Kirsch served as Chairman of the Committee of the Whole of the Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court. He was also Chairman of the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court (1999 to 2002). Kirsch holds a Bachelor of Civil Law and an LL.M. degree from the Université de Montréal (1972).

Judge Patricia Wald is a native of Torrington, Connecticut. She graduated with honors from Yale Law School in 1951. In 1977 she was appointed as Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs for the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter nominated her to fill a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was the first woman ever to sit on that bench, and served as chief Judge from 1986 until 1991. In 1999, after having served on the bench for twenty years, Judge Patricia Wald retired and accepted an invitation to serve as one of the 14 panel judges of the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague to hear cases on the war atrocities in the former Yugoslavia.

Please RSVP by February 11, 2009 to RSVP@unanca.org with "ICC event" in the subject line.