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24/10/2024
The 2nd Lauterpacht Centre for International Law Conference on International Dispute Settlement will be held in Cambridge on 25 October 2024. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Adjudicating International Crises’. Émilie Pottle will be participating in a roundtable considering international crimes with a focus on the domestic prosecution of such crimes in domestic jurisdictions.
Émilie is recognised as a leading junior in the field of international criminal law. She has an established practice in international human rights law and related areas. Émilie is currently instructed as junior counsel in a case concerning genocide under the International Criminal Courts Act 2001. She was junior counsel for the Crown in the landmark case of R v TRA [2019] SC 52 concerning the interpretation of the UN Torture Convention. The case arose out of a domestic prosecution for torture carried out during the civil war in Liberia. Émilie provides advice to government agencies and NGOs on domestic prosecutions for international crimes and completed her thesis on the obligation to prosecutes offences of genocide in national courts.
The conference is free of charge but subject to prior registration at the following link: https://forms.gle/bgS2sfRMmBLDHo1b7