Tuesday, May 17th, 2022 Russia-Ukraine War and the Law: War Crimes, Legal Accountability, and Other Campaigns on the Legal Front

DateTimeLocation
Tuesday, May 17, 202212:00PM - 1:30PMOnline Event,

Description

Since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine began, the law has become its own front, full of maneuvers, counter-attacks, and campaigns. Genocide, martial law, sanctions, the crime of aggression against a sovereign state, war crimes against civilians: the law has proven a tool that Ukrainian authorities have wielded in creative and complicated ways. This panel of experts considers legal aspects of Russia’s war on Ukraine, from martial law to a Putin war crimes tribunal, considering both international and domestic legal doctrines, and thinking about innovations and experiments as well as limitations and risks of “campaigns” on the legal front.

Contact

Olga Kesarchuk (olga.kesarchuk@utoronto.ca)
416-946-8938

Speakers

Ron Levi
Chair
Professor of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Sociology; Distinguished Professor of Global Justice; Director, Global Justice Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

Monica Eppinger
Speaker
Associate Professor; Co-Director, Center for International and Comparative Law, Center for International and Comparative Law, Saint Louis University

Mykola Hnatovsky
Speaker
Professor, International Law Department at Kyiv Shevchenko University, First Vice-President of the Ukrainian Association of International Law, Judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Ukraine

Alex Whiting
Speaker
Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, former Investigations Coordinator at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague

Evgeny Finkel
Speaker
Associate Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University

Oleksandr Merezhko
Speaker
Ukrainian MP, Head of the Committee on Foreign Policy and Interparliamentary Cooperation

Sponsors

Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine

Co-Sponsors

the Center for International and Comparative Law, Saint Louis University School of Law

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