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Impulses and Reflections at a Historic Venue: The Marburg Lecture on International Criminal Law and the Annual Celebrations of the ICWC
Each year, on the occasion of its founding day, the ICWC celebrates its anniversary with the now traditional “Marburg Lecture on International Criminal Law,” which is always given by a distinguished guest in this field. Most recently, on December 5, 2019, this was Prof. Dr. Sabine Andresen, who spoke about the work of the Independent Commission for the Study of Child Sexual Abuse, before the “Marburg Lecture on International Criminal Law” had to pause for two years due to Corona. On December 6, 2018, we welcomed Kimberly Prost, Judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, who spoke on the topic “Twenty Years of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: Achievements and Challenges.” On December 5, 2017, we hosted Bishop Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Huber, who lectured on the topic “The Cultural Dimension of Genocide.” On December 8, 2016, we welcomed Professor Dr. Christoph Safferling, LL.M., among other things spokesperson of the Independent Academic Commission for the Study of the Nazi Past at the Federal Ministry of Justice. Previously, on December 3, 2015, Professor Bertram Schmitt, Judge at the ICC, was received in Marburg. In 2014, the ICWC had the honor that Professor Andreas Wirsching, Director of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich/Berlin, gave this lecture. It also took place within the framework of a multi-day international and interdisciplinary academic conference at the ICWC. Another special highlight was the anniversary celebration in 2013, which at the same time represented the ceremonial act for the tenth anniversary of the center and, in addition to the keynote lecture by former Federal Constitutional Court Judge Professor Udo di Fabio (Bonn) on the topic “The Criminal Jurisdiction of World Society,” included an interdisciplinary workshop on international criminal law. The workshop panels were staffed with high-ranking representatives from academia and practice.
On these pages you can learn more about the 2022 annual celebration as well as about all previous annual celebrations and commemorative lectures, at which the keynote speakers included, among others, Professor Heiner Bielefeldt (United Nations Special Rapporteur and former Director of the German Institute for Human Rights), Professor Andreas Paulus (Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court), Professor Manfred Görtemaker (Professor of Modern History at the University of Potsdam and later, together with former ICWC Director Professor Christoph Safferling, member of the Independent Academic Commission at the Federal Ministry of Justice for the Reappraisal of the Nazi Past), Professor Kai Ambos (Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Göttingen and Judge at the Regional Court), and Professor Edgar Wolfrum (Professor of Public History and Applied History at the University of Heidelberg).