News

On 5 December 2022, the Nuremberg Academy organised a side event, hosted by Germany, at the twenty-first session of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court (ICC ASP), which took place in The Hague from 5 to 11 December 2022. The panel discussion was titled “The Trials at t...

On May 2nd, we had the great honour to welcome Professor David Tolbert as a guest speaker at the FAU. Thanks to his extensive knowledge and experience which he gained as the former president of the International Center for Transitional Justice as well as registrar of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon...

Last Wednesday the „Erlanger Cybercrime Tag“ took place for third time. Every year different experts are invited by the International Criminal Law Research Unit (ICLU) of Professor Dr. Christoph Safferling, LL.M. to discuss current topics and phenomena in the field of cybercrime. This year’s topic of the conference – which is sponsored by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community – was “Financial Cybercrime and Virtual Money Laundering”. Almost 100 interested visitors joined the workshop which took place in the beautiful Wassersaal of the Erlanger Orangerie. The audience consisted of representatives of police departments, law enforcement authorities, tax authorities and lawyers as well as computer scientist and bankers. Furthermore, interested students majoring in law or computer science joined the event.

On Monday, 21 Januar 2019 Professor Dr. Angana Chatterji of the University of California Berkeley paid a visit to the FAU Law School on invitation of ICLU to present evidence which she collected on human rights abuses in Kashmir in India. Professor Chatterji is addressing sexual violence in conflict...

For four weeks professor Safferling will be staying at Stanford University in California. He has been invited by the known legal historian professor David Cohen to work as a visiting scholar at the WSD Handa Center for Human Rights & International Justice. To intensify the cooperation between IC...

On 19 and 20 October 2018, the International Nuremberg Principles Academy is organizing the Nuremberg Forum 2018 at the historic Courtroom 600 in Nuremberg. The Nuremberg Forum 2018 will pay tribute to the 20th anniversary of the Rome Statute and will critically evaluate the past 20 years while also...

ICLU researcher Dr. Christian Rueckert presents a paper at the WEIS 2018 (Workshop in the Economics of Information Security) on “Virtual Currencies and Fundamental Rights”. The WEIS is the world’s leading forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on information security and privacy, combining expertis...

The International Nuremberg Principles Academy invites to a conference on the subject of “70 Years Later: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East”. The event will take place in the historic Courtroom 600 in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice from May 17 to May 19, 2018. The conference mark...

Yesterday, Professor Safferling and Gurgen Petrossian from ICLU met with the new deputy director, Dr. Viviane Dietrich and other staff members of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy (INPA) at the Law School in Erlangen in order to plan for the Nuremberg Moot 2018. Cooperation will continu...

Last week many renowned experts in international relations and international criminal law met in Nuremberg for the Nuremberg Forum 2017 on invitation of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy (INPA). The topic of the conference was the Nuremberg Declaration on Peace and Justice which was ado...