Friday Lunchtime Lecture: 10 October 2008

"Victims' Participation in International Criminal Court Proceedings" by Olivia Struyven

Time	:	Lecture starts at 1pm (with a sandwich lunch, sponsored by Cambridge University Press, from 12:30pm
Venue	:	Finley Library, Lauterpacht Centre, 5 Cranmer Road, Cambridge

Olivia Struyven has been working for the International Criminal Court since December 2003. Being amongst the first staff members of the Office of the Prosecutor, she worked on organisational issues before joining the Uganda case (The Prosecutor v. Joseph Kony, Vincent Otti, Okot Odhiambo and Dominic Ongwen). Since January 2005, she is working as a trial lawyer on the Lubanga case (The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga).

Prior to joining the ICC, Olivia Struyven worked as a commercial trial lawyer for the Brussels Office of the law firm Linklaters. She also worked as a research assistant for the United Nations and as a legal intern at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Olivia Struyven received her LL.M. degree (focus on international public law) from the University of Cambridge. She received her law degree with honours from the Catholic University of Leuven and from the Université Notre Dame de la Paix (Namur).
 

Presentation:

The presentation will compare the notion of victim’s participation as applied in national civil law systems with the regime foreseen in the Rome Statute. The lecture will analyse the decisions and interpretation of the ICC regime of victim’s participation by the different Pre-Trial Chambers, Trial Chamber I and the Appeals Chamber.  Finally the presentation will examine the practical implications of these decisions.

The Centre's Friday Lunchtime Lectures are recognised by both the Law Society and the Bar Council as Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accredited courses. Information on other lectures held at the Lauterpacht Centre can be found here.