Wednesday, 3 December 2014
13.00: Arrival of Participants
15.00: Welcome by the Director of the ICWC
Part A : Historical Dimension
15.15-16.45: PANEL 1: The Defence in War Crimes Trials after 1945
Chair: Christoph Safferling, ICWC
-The Legal Framework for the Defence at the IMT; Lars Büngener, Frankfurt/Main
-Justice Jackson, the IMT & OMGUS, Delivering 'the Assistance of Counsel' to the Nuremberg Defendants; John Q Barrett, St. John's University, N. Y.
-Defence in British War Crimes Trials 1945-1949; Margaretha F. Bauer, Augsburg University
-Defence in American Trials - The Justice Trial; Martin Luber, ICWC
-German Defence Lawyers and Angloamerican Procedure; Michael S. Bryant, Bryant University, Smithfield
16.45-17.15 Coffee Break
17.15-19.00: PANEL 2: Biographies, Strategies and Interests
Chair: Eckart Conze, ICWC
-Friedrich Bergold as Defence Counsel before the IMT and NMT; Benedikt Salleck, ICWC
-Hans Laternser: From the IMT to the Auschwitz-Trial; Heike Krösche, Linz
-Jahrreiß, Takayanagi and Crimes against Peace; Kirsten Sellars, National University of Singapore
-Robert Servatius: Defending Eichmann and Selling him; Willi Winkler, Munich
Thursday, 4 December 2014
10.00-12.00: PANEL 3: Politics of the Past and Historical Memory
Chair: Wencke Meteling, ICWC
-Transition and Combination Play. Organising the Nuremberg Defence, 1945-51; Kim C. Priemel, Humboldt University of Berlin
-Revision and Revisionism: The Example of Erich Schmidt-Leichner; Irina Schulmeister, Frankfurt/Main
-"Hitlerising": Defence Strategies and Images of History; Annette Weinke, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
12.00-14.00: Lunch Break
Part B: Modern Trials
14.00-16.00: PANEL 4: Defence before International Courts and Tribunals
Chair: Stefan Kirsch, Frankfurt/Main
-The Impact of Defence Work in Modern International Criminal Law; Steven Kay QC, The Hague
-The Legal and Institutional Framework of the Defence; Melinda A. Taylor, The Hague
-Trial in Absentia; Andrè Klip, Maastricht University
-The Accused without Counsel; Peter Robinson, The Hague
18.30-20.00: Marburg Lecture of Internatinal Criminal Law
18.30: Welcome Addresses
Dean of the Law Faculty
Director of the ICWC
19.00: Lecture: Verteidiger der Unmenschlichkeit? Probleme der Verteidigung in den deutschen Kriegsverbrecherprozessen nach 1945; Andreas Wirsching, Institute of Contemporary History, Munich
20.00: Reception in the Alte Universität
Friday, 5 December 2014
08.30-10.30: PANEL 5: The Defence between National and International Prosecution
Chair: Eberhard Kempf, Frankfurt
-The Position of the Defence in Adversarial and Inquisitorial Trail Proceedings; Michael G. Karnavas, The Hague
-Collection of Evidence Abroad; Stefan Wäspi, Berne
-The Dramatic Absence of a proper Organisation of Defence and of an Independent Bar and it's Far-Reaching Consequences; Jean Flamme, The Hague
10.30-11.00: Coffee Break
11.00-12.30: PANEL 6: The Defence and the Quest for the Truth - Roundtable Discussion
Chair: Peter Wilkitzki, Berlin
-Gillian Higgins, The Hague
-Michael A. Newton, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
-Ulrich Herbert, Albert Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg
12.30-13.00: Endnote
13.00-14.00: Lunch