Previous Conferences

2011 Conference

The papers from the third conference were published in the North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation. Below is a each speaker and a link to their external webpage.

Speakers

• Jacqueline Hodgson, Professor of Law, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
• Christopher Slobogin, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, USA
• Taru Spronken, Professor of Criminal Law, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
• Dorris de Vocht, Professor of Law, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands*
• Richard E. Myers II, Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
• Martin Boese, Professor of Law, University of Bonn, Germany*
• Donald Dripps, Professor of Law, University of San Diego, California, USA

Abstracts

The abstracts for the papers that were presented at the 2011 conference are available in this PDF.

2010 Conference

The 2010 conference hosted guest speakers from around the world to lead the discussion. The papers from the conference were published in the North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation. An introduction to the papers was written by Noah Weisbord, Duke Law. Below, you will find a short biography of each speaker and a link to each respective speaker's external webpage.

Speakers

• Fatou Bensouda, Deputy Chief Prosecutor in Charge of Prosecutions for the ICC
• Michele Caianiello, Associate Professor of Criminal Procedure at Bologna University
• Mirjan Damaska, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School
• Robert Mosteller, J. Dickson Phillips Distinguished Professor at UNC Law (formerly Chadwick Professor of Law at Duke)
• Barbara O'Brien, Assistant Prof. of Law, Michigan State Law School
• Steve Thaman, Co-Director, Center for International and Comparative Law at St. Louis University
• Thomas Weigend, Director of the Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law at the University of Cologne
  Moderators
• Jocqueline Hodgson, Director of the International and Comparative Criminal Justice Programme at the University of Warwick, England.
• Giulio Illuminati, Director of the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Bologna
• Richard Myers, Assistant Professor of Law, UNC Law
• Lorena Bachmaier Winter, Professor of Criminal Procedure at Complutense University, Madrid.
• Ron Wright, Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Professor of Law, Wake Forest Law

2009 Conference

The 2009 Conference was the first of, what we hope to be, many future conferences focused on the role of the Adversarial System in International Comparative Criminal Law. It's title was "Conversations on the Future of the Adversarial System." The conference hosted speakers from England, Italy, Canada, and the United States. It was funded by the European Union, the UNC Center for European Studies and UNC School of Law.

Speakers & Topics

• Ron Wright, Wake Forest Law: "Adversarial Justice and Prosecutors in Mexico"
• Giulio Illuminati, University of Bologna Law: "The Accusatorial Process from the Italian Point of View"
• Richard Myers, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Law: "Does the Adversarial System Benefit the Guilty at the Expense of the Innocent?"
• Theresa Newman & James Coleman, Duke Law: "Unfortunate Persistence: The Post-Conviction Adversarial Posture and the Need for Reform"
• Jackie Hodgson, University of Warwick Law: "Inquisitorial Elements in Recent English and Welsh Pro-prosecutorial Reforms"
• Kent Roach, University of Toronto Law: "Adversarial and Inquisitorial Themes in the Causes and Remedies of Wrongful Convictions: A View from Canada"

Abstracts

The abstracts for the papers that were presented at the 2009 Conference are available.