Distinguished Judicial Visitors - Judge Fausto Pocar
February 23, 2005February 23, 2005
Presentation by Judge Fausto Pocar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Judge Pocar is a professor of International Law at the University of Milan (Italy). In 1984, he was elected member of the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations, a position he held until 2000; he was its chairman in 1991 and 1992. He took part in the world conference on Human Rights in Vienna in 1993, and was special representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Chechnya in 1995 and in Russia in 1996. Judge Fausto Pocar served several times as a member of the Italian delegation to the General Assembly in New York and to the Commission of Human Rights in Geneva. He was also a member of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. He is a member of the Institut de droit international and of several academic associations. He was appointed a judge of the ICTY in 1999 and has been a member of the Appeals Chamber of the ICTR since 14 February 2000.
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: campus - Gordon D. Schaber Law Library, California Room
