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SLAC Colloquium | "Enemies of All Mankind": Accountability for War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, and Grave Human Rights Abuses in U.S. Courts
Carmen Cheung Ka-Man, Center for Justice and Accountability
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At the end of the Second World War, the Allied powers convened a series of international military tribunals to prosecute Nazi and Japanese officials responsible for the mass atrocities that occurred in both the European and Pacific theaters. International criminal law as we know it today was still in its infancy, and the legal language to describe the horrors of the Nazi extermination camps and the brutality of the Nanjing Massacre was still not fully developed. Yet from those trials emerged many of the core principles that form the foundation of international justice today – chief among them, the concept that there are certain crimes so serious, they are crimes against all the people of the world and the perpetrators of those crimes should be held accountable wherever they are found. We now have names for many of these crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, torture. In the United States, a patchwork of laws makes it possible to hold perpetrators of these serious international crimes accountable in U.S. courts, regardless of where these crimes took place. This presentation will examine opportunities for international justice in U.S. courts, challenges faced by survivors and victims, and a practitioner’s perspective on investigating and litigating cases against “enemies of all mankind”.
About Carmen Cheung Ka-Man
Carmen Cheung Ka-Man is Executive Director at the Center for Justice and Accountability, which is dedicated to working with impacted communities to seek truth, justice and redress for crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture, and other core international crimes through innovative litigation and transitional justice strategies. An international litigator, Carmen has acted as counsel in significant public interest cases involving security and human rights, and has appeared as an expert witness before governments and international human rights bodies. Prior to joining CJA, she was a Professor of Global Practice at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, where her research and teaching focused on terrorism, security sector accountability, and human rights. Carmen received her JD from Columbia Law School and graduated with an AB in Social Studies from Harvard University.
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