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Panel 1: An Overview of the Issues Involved in Prosecuting Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Coordinator: Mr Tom Hamilton, Legal Consultant, United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials
Chair: Baron Serge Brammertz, Chief Prosecutor, ICTY
On 28 November 2007, Serge Brammertz was appointed by the United Nations Security Council to serve as Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Dr. Brammertz was subsequently appointed to serve concurrently as Chief Prosecutor of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals on 29 February 2016.
Dr. Brammertz has served for more than a decade in senior positions charged with investigating and prosecuting grave international crimes. Prior to his current appointment, in January 2006 he was appointed as Commissioner of the UN International Independent Investigation Commission into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. In September 2003, he was elected as the first Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
Prior to his international appointments, Dr. Brammertz was a national magistrate then the head of the Federal Prosecution of the Kingdom of Belgium. In these roles, he supervised numerous investigations and trials related to cases of organised crime, terrorism, international drug trafficking, human trafficking and violations of international humanitarian law.
Dr. Brammertz is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Prosecutors, and previously served as Chairman of the European Judicial Network. He has published and lectured widely on the investigation and prosecution of complex crimes, international humanitarian law, organized crime, terrorism and judicial capacity building. He was a professor of law at the University of Liège until 2002.
Panelists
 Professor Louise Anette Chappell, Professor, School of Social Sciences, The University of New South Wales
Louise Chappell is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, at The University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. Louise's research explores questions of how gender justice can be strengthened through political, legal, bureaucratic and corporate institutions. She has published widely in this area, and her most recent book The Politics of Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court: Legacies and Legitimacy (OUP 2016) considers the implementation by the ICC of its advanced gender justice mandate in its formative years.
Ms. Kelisiana Thynne, Regional Legal Advisor for Southeast Asia, International Committee of the Red Cross
Kelisiana Thynne is a Regional Legal Advisor with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Based in Kuala Lumpur, she covers South East Asia and Japan, promoting international humanitarian law to governments and academic institutions in the region. Kelisiana was previously the Director of Capability and Research Manager at the Australian Civil-Military Centre for two years. Prior to that, she was the Legal Advisor to the Afghanistan Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross working on detention and conduct of hostilities in that conflict. For the three years before that she was Regional Legal Advisor to the ICRC Pacific Regional delegation. Kelisiana has also worked for the Office of International Law in the Australian Attorney-General's Department, the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice (an NGO dealing with gender issues at the International Criminal Court), and was Associate to an Australian Federal Judge.
Kelisiana has a Master of Laws from the University of Sydney, and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the Australian National University. Kelisiana is originally from New Zealand, but grew up mostly in the Pacific, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Mr. Tom Hamilton, Legal Consultant, United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials
Tom Hamilton is Legal Consultant to the UN Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials in Cambodia. He was formerly Associate Legal Officer in the Chambers of the ICC where he worked on the Bemba trial judgement. He writes and publishes on international criminal law and is completing a PhD at King's College London on the arMs. trade.
 Professor Gregory S. Gordon, Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Development and External Affairs), Faculty of Law, CUHK
Professor Gregory S. Gordon is Associate Dean (Development/External Affairs) and Director of the Research Postgraduates Programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. Prior to joining CUHK, he was a tenured faculty member at the University of North Dakota School of Law and Director of the UND Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies. Not long after earning undergraduate and law degrees from UC Berkeley, he served as an attorney with the ICTR on the landmark "media" cases, the first international post-Nuremberg incitement prosecutions of media executives. For this work, he received a commendation from the U.S. Attorney General. Professor Gordon subsequently worked with the U.S. Department of Justice, serving, in sequence, as a street crime, white collar, organized crime and then human rights prosecutor (working in, inter alia, the Office of Special Investigations, the so-called "Nazi Hunters" unit). While at DOJ, he was detailed to Sierra Leone to conduct a post-civil war justice assessment. He has been featured on CNN, the BBC, C-SPAN, NPR, Radio France Internationale and was the BBC World News live television analyst for the announcement of the historic Charles Taylor trial verdict. His work on hate speech was recently discussed in a National Public Radio broadcast by Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman. Professor Gordon has trained Ethiopian federal prosecutors in Addis Ababa, prosecutors at the ECCC for the Khmer Rouge leadership trial, and attorneys and judges in Sarajevo for war crimes trials. He is one of the world's foremost authorities on international hate speech law.
Panel 2: Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict in the Asian Context
Coordinator: Professor Suzannah Linton, Distinguished Professor, Zhejiang Gongshang University Law School, Hangzhou
Chair: Dr. Philip Beh, Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong
Graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1981, Dr. Philip Beh began his career in forensic medicine in 1982 with the Forensic Pathology Service of the Hong Kong Government. He trained at Guy's Hospital, London and obtained his DMJ (Clin et Path) in 1988. He joined the Department of Pathology, The University of Hong Kong in 1995 and is currently there as a Clinical Associate Professor in Forensic Pathology.
Professionally, he is the Chief Examiner for Forensic Pathology for the Hong Kong College of Pathologists and had been an examiner for the DMJ and was also the External Examiner for the MD in Forensic Medicine for Sri Lanka. He is a member of the Forensic Advisory Group for the ICRC, as well as a member of the expert group for a UNODC training project in forensic capacity. He is also a member of the Editorial board for several forensic journals including Forensic Science International, Medicine, Science & Law, Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Journal of Forensic Science, Medicine & Pathology, Romanian Journal of Legal Medicine and the Turkish Clinical Journal of Medical Sciences. He was the President of WPMO from 2005-08 and was Vice-President of IAFS 2002-2005 and was the Chair of the Scientific Committee for IAFS 2005.
He has published numerous research papers on rape, homicides and medical education. He has contributed to 12 book chapters in multi-authored encyclopedias and textbooks of forensic medicine and forensic pathology. He is one of the founders of Hong Kong's only rape crisis center Rain Lily.
Panelists
 Dr. Rachel Killean, Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
Dr. Rachel Killean originally completed a Scots Law degree in Dundee, before pursuing her interest in International Law at Leiden University. An internship at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia cemented her interest in international criminal law, and inspired her PhD, which examined the victim participation system at the ECCC. She now works as a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, and her research interests centre around two key topics: first, the ways in which states and other actors respond to international crimes and mass human rights violations, and second, the various factors and contexts which influence the invisibility or visibility of certain crimes and harms. She has published in the Journal of International Criminal Justice, the International Criminal Law Review, the Irish Yearbook of International Law, and the Feminist Law Review.
Professor Suzannah Linton, Distinguished Professor, Zhejiang Gongshang University Law School, Hangzhou
Professor Suzannah Linton is a UK solicitor and Distinguished Professor at Zhejiang Gongshang University Law School in Hangzhou, China. Her career has combined international practice and academia. In relation to the theme of this conference, Professor Linton has worked on legal aspects of sexual violence at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia as Law Clerk to Judges Cassese and Mumba (Furundžija and Kunarac et al cases) and as International Law Advisor to the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor. She has presented on sexual violence in armed conflict at the University of Marburg in Germany, and lectured on reparations for World War II military sexual enslavement at the China University of Political Science in Beijing, Zhejiang Gongshang University in Hangzhou and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Ms. Priya Gopalan, former ICTY Prosecutor, The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR
Priya Gopalan is a Malaysian lawyer working in international human rights and criminal law. Priya's work focusses on gender justice and covers issues relating to access to justice, conflict-related sexual violence, and the rule of law in post-conflict settings.
Priya has worked as a litigator both nationally and internationally. During her seven years at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, she prosecuted war crimes at the trial and appellate levels. Her cases included that of Prosecutor v. Đorđević and Prosecutor v. Šainović et al. which resulted in important international legal precedents on conflict-related sexual violence. Priya has also worked at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva in various capacities. She was the gender advisor to the UN Fact-Finding Mission for Sri Lanka conducted by the OHCHR.
Priya is a contributing author to the publication: Prosecuting Conflict-Related Sexual Violence at the ICTY (OUP, 2016).
Ms. Kelisiana Thynne, Regional Legal Advisor for Southeast Asia, International Committee of the Red Cross
Kelisiana Thynne is a Regional Legal Advisor with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Based in Kuala Lumpur, she covers South East Asia and Japan, promoting international humanitarian law to governments and academic institutions in the region. Kelisiana was previously the Director of Capability and Research Manager at the Australian Civil-Military Centre for two years. Prior to that, she was the Legal Advisor to the Afghanistan Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross working on detention and conduct of hostilities in that conflict. For the three years before that she was Regional Legal Advisor to the ICRC Pacific Regional delegation. Kelisiana has also worked for the Office of International Law in the Australian Attorney-General's Department, the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice (an NGO dealing with gender issues at the International Criminal Court), and was Associate to an Australian Federal Judge.
Lunch: Keynote Speaker: ICC Judge Christine Van den Wyngaert
Judge Van den Wyngaert (1952) graduated from Brussels University in 1974 and obtained a PhD in International Criminal Law in 1979. She was a professor of law at the University of Antwerp (1985 - 2005) where she taught criminal law, criminal procedure, comparative criminal law and international criminal law. She authored numerous publications in all these fields. She was a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge (Centre for European Legal Studies (1994 - 1996), Research Centre for International Law (1996 - 1997)) and a visiting professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Her merits as an academic were recognised in the form of a Doctorate Honoris Causa, awarded by the University of Uppsala, Sweden (2001). In 2010, she was awarded a doctorate honoris causa by the University of Brussels, Belgium. In 2013, she received two further a Doctorates Honoris Causa, one from Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland Ohio) and one from Maastricht University (The Netherlands).
Judge Van den Wyngaert gained expertise in various governmental organisations. She was a member of the Criminal Procedure Reform Commission in Belgium (Commission Franchimont) (1991 - 1998) and served as an expert for the European Union in various criminal law projects. She has extensive international judicial experience. She served in the International Court of Justice as an ad hoc judge in the Arrest Warrant Case (2000 - 2002) and was elected as a judge in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia where she served for more than five years (2003 – 2009).
In 2013, the Flemish Government awarded her a golden medal for her achievements in international criminal law. In 2014, she was elected Vice President of the International Association of Penal Law. Judge Van den Wyngaert was granted the title of Baroness by the King of Belgium for her merits as an academic and as an international judge.
She was an expert for the two major scientific organisations in her field, the International Law Association and the International Association of Penal Law, which elected her to the position of Vice President at the Rio de Janeiro Congress of Penal Law in 2014. She was an observer of the Human Rights League at the trial of Helen Passtoors in Johannesburg in 1986 and made human rights a focal point in her teachings and writings throughout her career. In 2006, she was awarded the Prize of the Human Rights League.
Panel 3: Building Bridges Between International and National Practitioners
Coordinator: Dr. Joseph Rikhof, Part-Time Professor in International Criminal Law, Faculty of Common Law, University of Ottawa; Senior Counsel, Manager of the Law, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Section, Department of Justice
Chair: The Honourable Justice Kevin Zervos, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court
The Honourable Justice Kevin Zervos is a sitting Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong. He previously served as Director of Public Prosecutions of the Department of Justice of Hong Kong, and worked in other capacities with the Department of Justice for some 20 years doing a variety of trial and appellate work. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2003.
Prior to his career in Hong Kong, Justice Zervos was admitted as Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia in 1978. He was also registered as Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of Australia in 1983, and admitted as Barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1991. He began work in Australia as a solicitor in private practice and later as a Legal Officer and eventually Senior Legal Officer of the Melbourne Office of the Special Prosecutor (Federal). In 1986, he was appointed Senior Assistant Director to the Office of the Federal Director of Public Prosecutions, Melbourne and Sydney Offices. In 1989 until 1992 he was General Counsel to the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Zervos holds a Master of Laws (Human Rights) from the University of Hong Kong, and a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Science (Psychology) from Monash University.
Panelists
Dr. Joseph Rikhof, Part-Time Professor in International Criminal Law, Faculty of Common Law, University of Ottawa; Senior Counsel, Manager of the Law, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Section, Department of Justice
Joseph Rikhof has received a BCL, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands; a LL.B, McGill University; a Diploma in Air and Space Law, McGill University and a PhD, Irish Center for Human Rights.
He teaches the course International Criminal Law at the University of Ottawa. He is Senior Counsel, Manager of the Law with the Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Section of the Department of Justice, Canada. He was a visiting professional with the International Criminal Court in 2005 while also serving as Special Counsel and Policy Advisor to the Modern War Crimes Section of the Department of Citizenship & Immigration between 1998 and 2002.
His expertise lies with the law related to organized crime, terrorism, genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, especially in the context of immigration and refugee law. He has written over 40 articles as well as the book The Criminal Refugee: The Treatment of Asylum Seekers with a Criminal Background in International and Domestic Law,exploring these research interests and has lectured on the same topics around the world. In addition, he is co-author, with Robert Currie, of the book International and Transnational Criminal Law, Second Edition, as well as a faculty member of the Philippe Kirsch Institute.
Ms. Kathy Roberts, Legal Director, Center for Justice and Accountability
Kathy Roberts serves as Legal Director at the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), a non-profit organization dedicated to deterring torture, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other severe human rights abuses through innovative litigation, policy, and transitional justice strategies. She brings more than ten years' strategic litigation experience, mostly on behalf of victiMs. of international crimes in U.S. courts, with particular attention to genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture, sexual and gender based violence, universal jurisdiction, and foreign official immunity. Dr. . Roberts supervises CJA's legal team, including overseeing international investigations, selection of cases, progress of litigation, and related advocacy work, as well as collaboration with pro-bono co-counsel, law enforcement and other partners.
Mr. Jeremy Dein, Queen's Counsel, 25 Bedford Row
Jeremy Dein QC has practiced in the UK as a Criminal defence barrister since 1982. He was appointed Queen's counsel in 2003, and a part time trial judge in 2004 ("Recorder) . He became "ticketed" to try serious sex offences in 2011. He is a Judicial College course tutor. In 2014, he was appointed as a Recorder at the UK's Central Criminal Court ("The Old Bailey").
Jeremy is joint Head of Chambers at 25 Bedford Row London, and head of the Crime Group. He has defended in many serious, complex and high profile cases. He has appeared in countless serious sex, murder and terrorism trials. He was nominated for Crime Silk of the year 2015 and is ranked Band 1 in Chambers Directory and Legal 500 2016 , where he is described as " ..caring more about his clients than anything else.." .
In 2015, Jeremy appeared in the first ever domestic trial of a British national, tried for serious sex offences committed in Africa. He was Criminal Bar Association Director of Education (2008-12), and lectures on all aspects of the criminal justice process, including sexual offences. Internationally he has recently featured as keynote speaker in India, S outh Korea , Sri Lanka and Hong Kong .
25 Bedford Row was the first UK set of chambers to undertake war crimes defence work. Chambers has wide experience in this field and in all manner of defending crime, with enormous experience in the defence of serious sex offences.
He is a frequent criminal justice and human rights commentator on UK radio. He features heavily on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio London, BBC Three Counties, LBC and Talk radio.
Jeremy is extremely passionate about fair trial, fearless defence, quality advocacy and the development of criminal justice systems. In his spare time he enjoys politics, reading, travel, music and Salsa dancing.
 Professor Nina Jørgensen, Professor, Faculty of Law, CUHK
Nina H. B. Jørgensen joined the Faculty of Law in 2010 and teaches, writes and consults on public international law with a focus on international criminal justice. She is a qualified barrister and previously worked for eight years in different capacities (prosecution, judges' chambers, defence) at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown and The Hague, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in Phnom Penh, and the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in The Hague and Arusha respectively. She has also worked for the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Warsaw as the legal adviser for tolerance and non-discrimination. Prior to these assignments, she was a post-doctoral research fellow in international criminal law at the University of Leiden.
Panel 4: "Comfort Women": Sexual Slavery in Asia During World War II
Coordinator: Professor Suzannah Linton, Distinguished Professor, Zhejiang Gongshang University Law School, Hangzhou
Chair: Professor Gregory Gordon, Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Development and External Affairs), Faculty of Law, CUHK
Panelists
Dr. Yuki Tanaka, Researcher, Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts, Hamburg Institute of Social Studies
After teaching and conducting research for almost 20 years at several different universities in Australia, in 2002 Yuki Tanaka took up a research professorship at Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University. In October 2008, he was invited as a visiting professor to Birkbeck College of London University, and for two months between November and December of the same year he was the Sir Ninian Stephen Visiting Scholar at the Asia Pacific Military Law Center of the Law School, Melbourne University. However, he retired from Hiroshima Peace Institute at the end of March 2015. He now works as a freelance historian and political critic. He is also a coordinator of an electronic journal "The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus," and a member of the SVAC (Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts) research project group funded by Hamburg Institute of Social Studies. His book publications include, Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution during World War II and the US Occupation (Routledge, 2002) and Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II (Westview Press, 1996). The latter volume provided extensive background material for a BBC TV documentary series entitled 'Horror in the East' produced in 2000. He has also published many books and articles in Japanese, including Sorano Senso-Shi (A History of Aerial Warfare) (Kodansha, 2008). In 2009, He co-edited the book (together with Marilyn Young), Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History (New Press), and in 2011, co-edited another book (with Tim McCormack and Gerry Simpson), Beyond Victor's Justice?: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial Revisited (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers).
Professor Suzannah Linton, Distinguished Professor, Zhejiang Gongshang University Law School, Hangzhou
Professor Suzannah Linton is a UK solicitor and Distinguished Professor at Zhejiang Gongshang University Law School in Hangzhou, China. Her career has combined international practice and academia. In relation to the theme of this conference, Professor Linton has worked on legal aspects of sexual violence at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia as Law Clerk to Judges Cassese and Mumba (Furundžija and Kunarac et al cases) and as International Law Advisor to the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor. She has presented on sexual violence in armed conflict at the University of Marburg in Germany, and lectured on reparations for World War II military sexual enslavement at the China University of Political Science in Beijing, Zhejiang Gongshang University in Hangzhou and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Dr. Danny Friedmann
Dr. Danny Friedmann was visiting scholar at the California Western School of Law, San Diego, in 2016, and research associate and lecturer at CUHK Law between 2013 and 2016. Dr. Friedmann was awarded CUHK's 2013 Post Graduate Research Output Award. He holds a PhD in Laws from CUHK, an LLM from The University of Amsterdam and a BBA from Nyenrode Business University of Breukelen, the Netherlands.
Professor Nina Jørgensen, Professor, Faculty of Law, CUHK
Nina H. B. Jørgensen joined the Faculty of Law in 2010 and teaches, writes and consults on public international law with a focus on international criminal justice. She is a qualified barrister and previously worked for eight years in different capacities (prosecution, judges' chambers, defence) at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown and The Hague, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in Phnom Penh, and the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in The Hague and Arusha respectively. She has also worked for the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Warsaw as the legal adviser for tolerance and non-discrimination. Prior to these assignments, she was a post-doctoral research fellow in international criminal law at the University of Leiden.
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