News - 11. February 2009
PRIO researcher Morten Bergsmo lectured at the Farewell Seminar of President Philippe Kirsch of the International Criminal Court held in the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague on 6 February 2009. The seminar theme was Judicial Independence – Operational Interdependence: Perspectives on the Judicial Mandate of the ICC. Morten’s innovative lecture addressed the sociology or parameters of the discourse on judicial independence in international criminal justice: which questions can be asked, by whom, and how real can the discourse realistically be?