Date:    November 27, 2017
Place:  Faculty of Law, Charles University, nám. Curieových 7, Prague 1, Czech Republic (Conference room No. 117)
Organizer: UNCE, Human Rights Research Centre of the Charles University Faculty of Law&Department of International Law, Charles University Faculty of Law

Preliminary Conference program

Start:  9:30
Invitation and Introduction (Pavel Šturma, Charles University)

Panel I: International Law Framework
Panel Chair: prof. JUDr. Pavel Šturma, DrSc.
1. Human rights and international investment law (Pavel Šturma, Charles University)
2. Question of s.-c. cross fertilization of human rights protection in the framework of international economic institutions (Martin Faix, Charles University)
3. Social networks: The Internet as a weapon of terrorist groups to recruit young people (ViníciusAlmadaMozetic, UNOESC)
4. The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (Ondřej Svoboda, Charles University)

Panel II:EU and Constitutional Framework for National Implementation
Panel Chair:
5. Business Corporations and the Constitutionalization of Private Law (Pavel Ondřejek, Charles University)
6. The European Union and the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (Harald Ch. Scheu, Charles University)
7. Czech National Action Plan for Business and Human Rights (Martin Archalous, Office of the Czech Government)

Lunch (13:00 - 14:00)

Panel III:CSR and Labour Law
Panel Chair:
8.  Legal aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility – selected examples from the CzechRepublic (Jana Ondřejková, Charles University)
9.  The complexity of migration and the possible protection to foreign workers (Rogério Nery da Silva, UNOESC)
10.  No right to privacy on workplace (Martin Štefko, Charles University)
11.  Cap and trade and its effect on human rights (Ana Vrabič, The Hague University)

Panel IV:Business and Human Dignity
Panel Chair: 
12.  Decision-making autonomy and right to the own body: The reflection of the new conception of private autonomy gender, genetic identity and euthanasia in the XXI century (Riva Sobrado de Freitas, UNOESC)
13.  Selling and owning human body parts in the light of human rights: the ideal and the current practice (Petr Šustek, Charles University)

Conclusions

Refreshment (17:30)
 

Date:    Monday, October 2, 2017
Place:  Faculty of Law, Charles University, Nám. Curieových 7, Prague, Czech Republic
Organizer: UNCE, Human Rights Research Centre of the Charles University Faculty of Law&Department of International Law, Charles University Faculty of Law

Invitation:

International Criminal Law Conference_2017_Prague.pdf 

Conference program

Start:  9:30
Invitation and Introduction (Pavel Šturma, Charles University and ILC)

Panel I: A way to the Rome Statute and beyond
Panel Chair: prof. JUDr. Pavel Šturma, DrSc.

• 1. Ad hoc tribunals (ICTY and ICTR) and their significance for developing the activities of the ICC (Anna Richterová, Czech Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office and Eurojust)
• 2. The International Criminal Court as the peak institution of international criminal law – development finished or bounces ahead? (TamásLattmann, Institute of International Relations, Prague)
• 3. The Rome Statute in the works of the UN International Law Commission (Pavel Šturma, Charles University and ILC)

Panel II:Contribution of the ICC to the definition and interpretation of international crimes
Panel Chair: JUDr. Ivana Hrdličková, Ph.D.

• 4. The crime of aggression (Claus Kreß, University of Cologne)
• 5. International Criminal Court, war crimes and crimes against humanity (Josef Mrázek, Institute of Law, CAS and West Bohemian University, Plzeň)
• 6. The contribution of the ICC to the prosecution of sexual and gender-based crimes (KateřinaUhlířová, Masaryk University, Brno)
• 7. Mental element (mens rea) of the crime of aggression and related issues (Milan Lipovský, Charles University)

Lunch (12:30 - 13:30)

Panel III:Preliminary examination and investigation
Panel Chair: JUDr. Robert Fremr

• 8.  The ICC Prosecutor’s discretion: Somewhere between law, politics, strategy and pragmatism (Iryna Marchuk and AlokaWanigasuriya, University of Copenhagen)
• 9.  The International Criminal Court and Syria: absence of jurisdiction and the pressing need for international criminal justice (Jan Lhotský)
• 10.  The principle of complementarity in practice of the ICC (KristýnaUrbanová, Charles University)
• 11.  Al-Bashir and related issues (OndřejSvaček, Palacký University, Olomouc)

Panel IV:Trials
Panel Chair: Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c. Claus Kreß LL.M.

• 12.  The strengths and weaknesses of the ICC in the mirror of the Ruto and Sang case (Robert Fremr, Judge, ICC)
• 13.  All roads lead to Rome – The ICC’s hybrid system and pluriprocedural trials (Simon De Smet, ICC)
• 14.  Experience from the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (Ivana Hrdličková, President, STL)

Conclusions

Refreshment 17:30