Events
Brandeis Institute for International Judges 2009
A complete report of the sixth session of the Brandeis Institute for International Judges is now available. The BIIJ was held in Trinidad, the home of the Caribbean Court of Justice, from January 4-8, 2009. Click the cover above to download the report.
North American Judicial Colloquium
A complete report is now available on the North American Judicial Colloquium, which brought together national judges with their international counterparts from November 6-8, 2008, at Brandeis. Click the cover above to download the report. To read a transcript and see a video of Louise Arbour's keynote speech, click here.
Lecture by Hassan Bubacar Jallow, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Justice Hassan Bubacar Jallow, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, delivered the inaugural Distinguished Lecture in International Justice and Human Rights on November 30, 2009: "International Criminal Justice: Developments and Reflections on the Future." Part of the Social Justice Leadership Series.
Conference on women and access to justice in Africa
As a follow-up to West African Judicial Colloquia, Programs in International Justice and Society collaborated with Partners in Gender Justice and the United Nations Development Program on a conference held November 19-21, 2008, in Ghana. Click here for a report.
Brandeis Programs in International Justice and Society
The Peace Palace in The Hague
The world of international justice is complex and changing. Over the past several decades, a number of new international justice institutions have been established in response to specific events and to a generalized view that some kinds of judicial proceedings can best serve the interests of the global community. At the same time, many processes meant to complement international justice have emerged, such as truth and reconciliation commissions, localized forms of justice adapted to new circumstances, and various human rights endeavors. Neither institutions of justice nor complementary processes take their forms from legal notions alone; they are products of complex social realities and subsequently serve to shape these same realities. The field of international justice thus benefits from a multidisciplinary perspective that incorporates the insights not only of law but also of the humanities and social sciences.
Brandeis Programs in International Justice and Society aim to enhance the work of the international justice system by informing the general public about its accomplishments and challenges, serving the needs of the international judiciary through institutes and meetings, and encouraging inquiry on related activities in the fields of human rights and complementary justice programs. Central to the formulation of the Brandeis programs is the inclusion of intellectual approaches provided by literature, history, anthropology, philosophy and many other disciplines. The staff of the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life strives to enrich the experience of practitioners of international justice and its "constituents"--judges, attorneys, victims, witnesses, scholars, advocates and others--by developing programs that take account of the full complexity of justice institutions and the work they perform.
A Brandeis library research guide to international justice, which offers an overview of the field, was prepared by the Center. It can be found here.
A presentation on the Center's work in West Africa related to international justice and coexistence is available here.
Brandeis Programs in International Justice and Society are directed by Leigh Swigart.