TOKYO WAR CRIMES TRIAL CONFERENCE
10-12 November 2008
APCML announces a forthcoming major international conference and public lecture to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Judgment in the Tokyo War Crimes Trial.
The Conference will be important as a way of enhancing the prospects of global justice, understanding a neglected aspect of Australasian history and continuing to promote friendship and reconciliation among Asian neighbours and Australia. This is not a project designed to re-examine Japan’s conduct during the war; rather the intention is to learn lessons from the Tokyo Trial with a wide-ranging discussion about the future of international law and the law of war crimes. A special feature of the Conference is a public lecture, entitled The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: Humanity’s Justice or Victors’ Justice? to be delivered by Professor Hisakazu Fujita at 6pm on Monday 10 November.
Speakers at the conference include authors of several recent books on the Tokyo Trial, a number of eminent Japanese, Korean, and Chinese scholars, and APCML Director Tim McCormack and APCML Deputy Director Ian Henderson. The conference is expected to attract around 100 participants including legal and historical scholars, political scientists, military and other historians and interested members of the public.
Dates: Monday 10, Tuesday 11 and Wednesday 12 November 2008
Venue: The University of Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton, Melbourne
Further information:
Cathy Hutton, APCML, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010
Tel: (03) 8344 4775 Fax: (03) 8344 0054 Email: law-apcml@unimelb.edu.au
The Conference is presented in association with Hiroshima Peace Institute, American Society of International Law’s Lieber Society, London School of Economics International Humanitarian Law Project, and is supported by Australian Red Cross and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
PROFESSOR MICHAEL SCHMITT 2006 LECTURE NOW PUBLISHED
International Humanitarian Law and Contemporary Armed Conflict: Can the Law Survive? Public Lecture - 13 September 2006 at 6pm
 The 2006 Sir Ninian Stephen Visiting Scholar Lecture was presented at the Melbourne Law School on 13 September by Professor Michael N. Schmitt, Professor of International Law and Director of the Program in Advanced Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. In his lecture, entitled' International Humanitarian Law and Contemporary Armed Conflict: Can the Law Survive?', Professor Schmitt considered how the changing nature of warfare is affecting the content, application and interpretation of the Law of Armed Conflict and International Humanitarian Law, with particular reference to the use of technology in armed conflict.
The text of Professor Schmitt’s lecture has now been published in the latest edition of the Melbourne Journal of International Law.
Select for further information on Professor Schmitt
Second Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Regional Workshop
6-7 March 2006
The Second Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Regional Workshop, co-hosted by the Australian Department of Defence and the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs under the auspices of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law (APCML), was held in Bali, Indonesia on 6-7 March 2006. This was a follow up to the First BWC Regional Workshop held at the University of Melbourne Law School in February 2005. The Workshops provide a regional forum for discussion of effective national implementation of the 1975 Biological Weapons Convention.
Thirty seven participants attended the Second Workshop, with representatives from Indonesia, Australia, Cambodia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. The Australian delegation included representatives from the APCML (Dr Bob Mathews, LTCOL Geoff Cameron CSC, Treasa Dunworth and Sarah Finnin), the Department of Defence, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
The objectives of the Second Workshop were to promote regional awareness of and engagement in the BWC; to discuss the importance of bio-security; to examine national mechanisms for maintenance of the security and oversight of pathogenic micro-organisms and toxins; to facilitate the establishment of a forum for networking with a view to developing partnerships in enhancing bio-security and bio-safety; and to provide a forum for sharing of information.
The Workshop was officially opened by H.E. Mr. M. Slamet Hidayat, Director-General for Multilateral Affairs of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, and Dr Bob Mathews, Head of NBC Arms Control, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), Australia. H.E. Mr. M. Slamet Hidayat remarked that the Workshop enabled the officials and scientists from participating countries to acquire a better understanding of the importance of implementation of the BWC. Similarly, Dr Bob Mathews stressed that the Workshop was a very important step for sharing experience among the participants in the implementation of the BWC with the objective of developing a range of implementation tools.
The APCML is currently preparing the second (2006) volume of
the Workshops proceedings.
Select for further information on the BWC workshop
Select to visit the Biological Weapons Convention website
Contact details:
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Cathy Hutton
Administrator
Asia-Pacific Centre for Military Law
Law School
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010 AUSTRALIA
Tel: + 61 3 8344 4775
Fax: + 61 3 8344 0054
Email: law-apcml@unimelb.edu.au
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Military
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Ian Martin
Administrator
Asia-Pacific Centre for Military Law
Building 100
Randwick Barracks
Avoca Street
RANDWICK NSW 2031 AUSTRALIA
Tel: + 61 2 9349 0628
Fax: +61 2 9349 0757
Email: mlc.admin@defence.gov.au
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