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No Chaos in this Courtroom!

By International Association of Penal Law

Originally posted on the Trial of Charles Taylor Blog: http://charlestaylortrial.org/expert-commentary-2/professor-michael-p-scharf-no-chaos-in-this-courtroom/   After the conclusion of the Saddam Hussein trial, which was perhaps the messiest trial in legal history, I was invited by Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, to make a presentation to his staff about the best ways an international criminal court can maintain control of a war crimes trial in the face of a defendant or defense counsel who seeks to disrupt the proceedings.   I subsequently was invited to speak about this important issue to the judges and prosecutors of the Rwanda Tribunal and Cambodia Tribunal.  The text of my presentation is available on the ICC’s website: http://www...continue to full post

Full post as published by AIDP Blog on February 04, 2008 (boomark / email).