Justice Richard Goldstone, who served as chief prosecutor
at the United Nation’s Ad Hoc International Criminal Tribunals
for both the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, is giving a free
lecture at UBC on Oct. 10.
Goldstone, a justice of the constitutional court of South
Africa, will speak on the law of war, the legacy of the Nuremberg
trials, the importance of the UN war crimes tribunals and
the need for a permanent international criminal court. The
lecture is sponsored by the International Centre for Criminal
Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy at UBC.
On leaving his post in The Hague last month, Goldstone publicly
blasted Western leaders for failing to back up the work of
the criminal tribunal with arrests. He faulted the nations
most closely involved in establishing the tribunal for their
failure to arrest Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and
Ratko Mladic.
Goldstone, who has received numerous awards in the field
of human rights, was born in South Africa and received his
law degree in 1964. He has served as a judge since 1980.
Goldstone will speak at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday Oct. 10 in
Room 101 of the Curtis Building, 1822 East Mall, UBC. There
is no charge to attend.
He will also speak Thursday evening at a special dinner hosted
by the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal
Justice Policy at the Law Courts Inn in Vancouver. Tickets
are $125.
- Date: Oct. 10, 1996
- Time: 12:30 p.m.
- Place: Room 101, Curtis Building, 1822 East Mall
Parking is available in the Rose Garden Parkade off Northwest
Marine Drive.
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