Contested Visions of Justice:
Allied War Crimes Trials in a Global Context, 1943-1958
CONFERENCE PROGRAM DUBLIN SEPT 25-27, 2015

Panel I: International Collaboration in Administering War Crimes Trials
Fri 3pm Moderator: Franziska Seraphim

The London/Chongqing Hub: UNWCC as Global Coordinating Agency Narrelle MORRIS, Curtin U. AU
The Southeast Asia Hub: SEAC in Singapore Robert CRIBB, Australian National U. AU
The Pacific Hub: SCAP” in Tokyo/Shanghai/Manila HAYASHI Hirofumi, Kanto Gakuin U. JP
Western Europe: From Allied to National Administration Devin PENDAS, Boston College, US
A Moscow Hub? The Soviet Extraordinary State Commission Tanja PENTER, Heidelberg U. GER

Keynote Address by William SCHABAS, Middlesex U. London, UK:
London 1941-1944: Conceiving the Permanent International Criminal Court

Panel II: Competing Notions of Criminality in Comparison
Sat 9am Moderator: Barak Kushner

Comparing National War Crimes Jurisdictions Henning RADTKE, FRG Supreme Court, GER
Response: CHEAH Wui Ling, National U. of Singapore, SIN
The Problem of State Crime in Axis Regimes Wolfgang FORM, Marburg U. GER
Response: Matthias ZACHMANN, U. of Edinburgh, UK
Soviet Justice betw. International & Domestic Law Franziska EXELER, Free University, Berlin, GER
Response: Tanja PENTER, Heidelberg U. GER
State vs. Individual Responsibility: Plurality of Views on Justice Suzannah LINTON, British Institute of
International & Comparative Law, UK
Response: Devin PENDAS, Boston College, US

Panel III: Cold War and Civil Wars as Contexts for Defining “Justice”
Sat 2pm Moderator: Kerstin von Lingen

German-German Competition in Adjudicating Crimes of War Annette WEINKE, U. of Jena, GER
Chinese-Chinese Competition in Adjudicating Crimes of War Barak KUSHNER, Cambridge U. UK
Geopolitics & Justice: United States as Ascending Global Power Elizabeth BORGWARDT, Washington U. US
Geopolitics & Justice: Soviet Trials as Cold War Missiles Andreas HILGER, Hamburg U. GER

Panel IV: Post-trial Negotiations for Clemency and Release
Sun 9am Moderator: Wolfgang Form

Topics of short provocation by the participants followed by a roundtable discussion
Review Boards, Clemency, and Parole Sandra WILSON, Murdoch U. AU
Reparations and the Economics of Release NAGAI Hitoshi, Hiroshima Peace Institute, JP
Rearmament and the Politics of Release Kerstin von LINGEN, Heidelberg U, GER
Prisons and the Social Justice of Release Franziska SERAPHIM, Boston College, US