Survey of the death penalty worldwide Meeting the goals for 2015 Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht Academicsforabolition.net - Institute of European and International Criminal Law (UCLM) International Society of Social Defense (ISSD) 26th July 2012 Fürstenbergstraße 19, 79100 Freiburg
Thursday, 26 th July 2012 I. Latest research results on abolition of the death penalty and the prohibition of torture or inhuman or degrading treatment 9.30h Opening of the workshop Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Ulrich Sieber 9.45h Perspectives for a world moratorium in 2015 Prof. Dr. William Schabas 11.00h Coffee break 11.30h Presentation of DVD-Project Still Killing by Academicsforabolition Dr. Teresa Manso Porto, mag. iur. comp. Dr. Marta Muñoz de Morales Romero II. Status of the death penalty throughout the world Panel 1 Chair: Priv.-Doz. Dr. phil. Dietrich Oberwittler 12.00h China Prof. Dr. Liling Yue, LL.M. Zunyou Zhou, LL.M. 12.30h Maghreb Dr. Salim Hmimnat 2
12.50h India Dr. Antonio Muñoz Aunion 13.00h Lunch 14.30 Panel 2 Chair: Jan-Michael Simon Mongolia Khurelbaatar Erdem-Undrakh, LL.M. Russia Svetlana Paramonova, LL.M. Panel 3 Chair: Dr. Carolin F. Hillemanns Iran Seyed Emadeddin Tabatabaei, LL.M. Saudi Arabia Mojgan Amrollahi Byouki, LL.M. Afghanistan Mandana Knust Rassekh Afshar Panel 4 Chair: Dr. Johanna Rinceanu, LL.M. Uganda Catherine Stella Namakula, LL.M. Kenya Josephine Ndagire, LL.M. 3
Panel 5 Chair: Nandor Knust USA Emily Silverman, J.D. (Berkeley), LL.M. Japan Dr. Mai Sato Singapore Birte Schöler 16.30 Discussion 17.00h Coffee break III. Final Conference Günterstalstraße 73 17.30h Panel Discussion Chair: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Ulrich Sieber Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dr. h.c. Hans-Jörg Albrecht Prof. Dr. Stefano Manacorda, LL.M. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Luis Arroyo Zapatero 18.30h End of the conference Scientific coordination: Dr. Johanna Rinceanu, LL.M. (j.rinceanu@mpicc.de) Prof. Dr. Antonio Muñoz Aunion (Antonio.MAunion@uclm.es) Nandor Knust (n.knust@mpicc.de) 4
Curricula vitae Hans-Jörg Albrecht Director at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg. Professor of criminal law, criminal justice and criminology at the University of Freiburg. Guest professor at the Center for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice of the China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing; Law Faculty of Hainan University; Law Faculty of Renmin University of China, Beijing; Law Faculty of Wuhan University; Law Faculty of Beijing Normal University. Life membership Clare Hall College at Cambridge University/UK; professorship and permanent faculty membership Faculty of Law of Qom High Education Center, Teheran/Iran; Honorary member of the Serbian Section of Criminology at the University of Belgrade/Serbia. Luis Alberto Arroyo Zapatero Professor for Criminal Law and International Criminal Law at the University of Castilla-La Manacha. President of the Sociètè internationale de Defense Sociale, Director of the Institute for European and International Criminal law (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), vice-president of the Association International de Droit Pénal, member of the Spanish National Commission of Legislation and Consultant for the Criminal Law Reform (since 2004) at the Spanish Ministry of Justice, vice-president of the advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, and fellow scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. Stefano Manacorda Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Naples (I). Visiting professor at the Ecole de Droit de la Sorbonne Université Paris 1 and at the University of Geneva, member of the UMR de Droit Comparé de Paris and the Ecole Doctorale de Droit Comparé de la Sorbonne. Since 2010 Director of the research team Internormativities in Criminal Law at the Collège de France/Paris. Vice- President of the Société internationale de Défense sociale, vice-president of the Association de Recherches Pénales Européennes and vice-president of the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations 5
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme. Director of the Cahiers de Défense Sociale, member of the Editorial Board of the Revue de Science Criminelle et de droit pénal comparé and member of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of International Criminal Justice. Fellow scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. Marta Muñoz de Morales Romero Assistant Professor of Criminal Law and European Criminal Law at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. She holds a Master in European Community Law and a PhD at the same University, awarded with the 2011 Best Dissertation Award. Visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law for eighteen months. Author of many publications, inter alia a book on El legislador penal europeo: legitimidad y racionalidad, Civitas-Thomson Aranzadi (2011). William A. Schabas Professor of international law at Middlesex University in London. Professor of international criminal law and human rights at Leiden University, professor of human rights law at the National University of Ireland Galway, chairman of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, and a visiting professor at the Paris School of International Affairs (Sciences-Po). Author of more than 20 books and 300 published articles, on such subjects as the abolition of capital punishment, genocide, and the international criminal tribunals. He was a member of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He is a president of the Irish Branch of the International Law Association and chair of the Institute for International Criminal Investigation. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a member of the Royal Irish Academy and holds several honorary doctorates. Ulrich Sieber Director at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg. Professor at the law faculties of the Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg and the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. Guest professor at Peking University, Renmin University of China, Beijing Normal University and the University of Wuhan/China. President of the Association for European Criminal 6
Law; vice-president of the Société Internationale de Défence Sociale pour une Politique Criminelle Humaniste; Member of the Board of Directors of the AIDP. For more details http://www.mpicc.de/sieber. Liling Yue Full professor at the China University of Political Science and Law. She has been teaching courses at the Criminal Justice Institute, EU-China School of Law; Center for Human Rights and Humanity; Sino-German Institute on Criminal Procedure, Comparative Criminal Procedure, Comparative Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Human Rights Protection, German Criminal Justice, Implementation of Human Rights Law, and International Human Rights. English language courses for foreign students: Chinese Criminal Law, Chinese Criminal Procedure Law, and Chinese Criminal Justice. Program Officer of EU China School of Law. Fellow scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation and Fulbright fellow scholar. 7
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