LCIL Lecture: 'The ICC at 15: prospects and challenges' - Olympia Bekou

Lecture summary: Fifteen years after the coming into force of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, international criminal justice is thought to be in crisis. Despite the many positive developments, in terms of completing the institution-building process as well as emerging jurisprudence, the Court is also facing a number of challenges. Universality, complementarity, cooperation, as well as effectiveness and efficiency are all areas of concern. The lecture discusses the prospects as well as the challenges faced by the International Criminal Court at 15.

Olympia Bekou is Professor of Public International Law and Head, International Criminal Justice Unit, University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre. A qualified lawyer, she specialises in international criminal law. Olympia has undertaken numerous capacity-building missions, including in post-conflict situations (such as Uganda, the DRC and Sierra Leone), has provided legislation drafting assistance to Samoa (with legislation enacted in November 2007) and Jamaica, and has been involved in training the Thai judiciary. She is Deputy Director of the Case Matrix Network and a member of the Advisory Board and Editor of the Forum of International Criminal and Humanitarian Law. She is also a member of the Board of Civitas Maxima. Olympia is responsible for the National Implementing Legislation Database (NILD) of the ICC Legal Tools Project and has taught extensively worldwide. In 2014, she was awarded the University of Nottingham Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Award for Societal Impact in Social Sciences for her work and in 2015-2016 she was recognised as an Impact Leader as part of ESRC’s impact leaders programme.

  The Lauterpacht Centre Friday lecture series is kindly supported by Cambridge University Press.

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