June 17th – Proving International Crimes
In this talk, Professor Yvonne McDermott Rees guided us on how international criminal tribunals had tackled the immense and complex task of proving international crimes such as genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Proving International Crimes demonstrates that, as a consequence of the flexibility built in to the legal and procedural frameworks of international criminal courts and tribunals, the law of international criminal evidence is currently unpredictable and uncertain.
Yvonne McDermott Rees is Professor of Law at the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, Swansea University, UK. Yvonne is the author of, amongst others, Fairness in International Criminal Trials (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Proving International Crimes (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024). She is currently Principal Investigator on the TRUE project, a £1.2 million project selected for funding by the European Research Council and funded by UK Research and Innovation, which examines the impact of the rise of deepfakes on trust in user-generated evidence of human rights violations. Yvonne is a Legal Advisor to the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and a Master of the Bench of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.
