On 24 Oct.,  renowned international lawyer and former ICTY and ICTR Judge, Prof. Flavia Lattanzi, will be giving a seminar on the history of international criminal justice, from the Treaty of Versailles to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Prof. Lattanzi was member of the Rome Conference for the establishment of an International Criminal Court (1998) and the ICC Preparatory Commission (1999-2002), Judge ad litem of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2003-2006) and of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (2007-2016, where she, in particular, rendered a dissenting opinion in the Šešelj trial). She is also author and editor of numerous publications, inter alia on: the powers of the UN Security Council and its power to refer a situation to ICC; the distinction between war crimes and crimes against humanity; the diversification and fragmentation of International Criminal Law; law interpretation by International Criminal Tribunals; the ICC jurisdiction; primacy and complementarity of international criminal jurisdictions; the implementation of the Rome Statute by national legislators.

Prof. Lattanzi will be introduced by Prof. Giuseppe De Vergottini, constitutional lawyer (UniBo).

Prof. Lattanzi's lecture will be followed by comments of  Prof. Paolo Pezzino (Università di Pisa), historian and current president of the Istituto Nazionale Ferruccio Parri. Prof. Pezzino is an expert on history of war crimes during the German occupation of Italy and has been special consultant of the Military Court of La Spezia for the prosecution of Nazi crimes following the discovery of the Armoire of Shame.