Mike Newton discusses the role of international and hybrid courts in bringing justice in Ukraine on June 24 panel

1:00 – 11:20: Welcoming remarks

Andryi Kostin, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy
Vsevolod Kniaziev, Chairman of the Supreme Court
Representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine
Representative of the National School of Judges
Anna Adamska – Gallant, International Key Expert of EU Project “Pravo Justice” on judicial reform
Marc Ellingstad, Director of the Office of Democracy and Governance, USAID Mission to Ukraine and Belarus

11:20 – 11:50 – Existing models for adjudicating war crimes cases

Dariusz Sielicki, PhD, former international judge of the Supreme Court of Kosovo, EU legal reform adviser in Somalia

11:50 – 12:50 – Transitional justice in war crime cases – lessons learnt in the Balkan

Mersudin Pružan, prosecutor of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Prosecutor’s Office, War Crime Division
Marijan Bitanga, PhD, judge of the High Specialized Criminal Court of Croatia
Anna Adamska – Gallant, PhD, former international judge of the Supreme Court of Kosovo

12:50 – 13:50 – International and hybrid courts as a tool of bringing justice

Martin Hackett, member of the ACA, former prosecutor of EULEX, and of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
Michael Newton, Professor of the Practice of Law, Professor of the Practice of Political Science, Vanderbilt University Law School

13:50 – 14:20 – Challenges related to war crimes cases adjudication in Ukrainian courts

Yuriy Ponomarenko, Chairman of Criminal Law Department at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University

14:20 – 14:50 – Perspectives of setting up a special international tribunal to punish the crimes committed against Ukraine

Andriy Pasichnyk, Deputy Director of Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ International Law Department

14:50 – 15:40 – Discussion on the applicability of various models of war crimes cases adjudication in Ukraine

15:40 – 16:00 – Closing remarks

Cosponsored by USAID, EU Project Pravo-Justice