Critical Response Event: The International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court has played an increasingly prominent role in international politics in recent years. This session aims to explain the history, structure, and limitations of the International Criminal Court in the world today by considering examples such as the issuance of arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin in 2023 and Benjamin Netanyahu in 2024, as well as other contemporary situations before the ICC. In what ways can the court help to uphold legal justice in the face of broad human rights crimes? When and how does a crime come before the court? What are the major political arguments for and against the court? This event will feature legal expert Mariana Salazar Albornoz. Q&A will be moderated by Cohen Institute Specialist, Prof. Phil Barker.

Speaker Bio:

Mariana Salazar Albornoz is an international lawyer with 20+ years of experience in the fields of Public International Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law & Atrocity Prevention, International Human Rights Law and Cyberoperations. She is a Member of the Board of the United Nations’ Register of Damage Caused by the Construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, a Member of the Editorial Board of the ICRC’s International Review of the Red Cross, and Coordinator of the Unit of Study and Reflection on International Law of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations. She is an Adjunct Professor at IE Law School in Madrid and at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.

Among her previous roles, Mariana was a Member of the InterAmerican Juridical Committee of the Organization of American States (2019-2022), where she served as Special Rapporteur on International Law applicable to Cyberspace and as Special Rapporteur on Privacy and Data Protection. She was also Academic Programs Associate for the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (2019-2023), and prior to that she served for 13 years (2005-2018) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, where she was Coordinator of International Law, Director for International Humanitarian and Criminal Law and Director for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

A former practitioner in law firms in Mexico City, Mariana holds a Law Degree from Universidad Iberoamericana and a Master’s Degree (DEA) in International Relations specialized in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.

Additional Information and Registration:

This event is hosted by the Cohen Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College as part of our ongoing series of Critical Response Events. These events are meant to spotlight ongoing or emerging crises across the globe. Speakers in this series represent a wide range of scholarly research and views; our guests' perspectives should not be taken as representative of the Cohen Institute or Keene State College as a whole.

The webinar is free and open to everyone, but advanced registration is required. Please register here.

This event is part of the Cohen Center calendar.