John Balouziyeh to participate in International Law Association panel

Partner John Balouziyeh will join a panel of experts convened by the International Law Association in New York City on 25 October 2024 to debate the establishment of the Exceptional Chemical Weapons Tribunal (ECWT). Panelists will discuss how such a tribunal would be situated in the current international legal framework alongside the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the ICC. The session will examine how the current international legal framework leaves gaps in international criminal justice and the role the ECWT can play in filling these gaps.

Participants in the panel include:

- Congressman (ret.) Luis Fortuño, Partner, Reed Smith; Chair of the International Law Association, Arms Control and Disarmament Committee (moderator)

- John Balouziyeh: Partner, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, New York

- Robert Petit, Head of the United Nations International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM), Geneva

- Joumana Seif, Legal Advisor, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), Berlin

- George P. Fletcher, Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia Law School, New York

- Paula Silfverstolpe, IHL Lecturer and Military Advisor, Swedish Defence University, Stockholm (TBC)

The panel, to be held at Fordham University School of Law as part of International Law Weekend in New York City, will take place on Friday, 25 October from 15:15 to 16:30. Plenary and Keynote Speakers who will join International Law Weekend include:

- Dapo Akande, Chichele Professor of Public International Law, University of Oxford

- Lori F. Damrosch, Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, Columbia Law School

- Diane Desierto, Professor of Law and Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame

- Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale Law School and former Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State

- Sean D. Murphy, Professor of International Law, George Washington University Law School and Special Rapporteur for Crimes Against Humanity

- Marko Milanovic, Professor of Public International Law, University of Reading

- Nilüfer Oral, Director of the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore and member, UN International Law Commission

- Michael P. Scharf, ABILA President and Leila N. Sadat, ABILA Chair

- J.H.H. Weiler, Joseph Straus Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

The full program for International Law Weekend can be found here and you can register here.