Nuremberg Academy Lecture 2026 - Judge Hilary Charlesworth

Nuremberg Academy Lecture 2026 - Judge Hilary Charlesworth

00:00 Christoph Safferling 10:32 Viviane Dittrich 15:05 Tania von Uslar-Gleichen 22:22 Beate Ehrt 30:04 Nasser Ahmed 34:11 Viviane Dittrich 38:19 Hilary Charlesworth 01:35:23 Q&As "Does the International Court of Justice have a Criminal Jurisdiction?“ Judge Hilary Charlesworth, Judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) whose distinguished career has combined judicial service at the highest international level with a pioneering legal scholarship, delivered the fifth Nuremberg Academy Lecture on 28 April 2026. The lecture titled “Does the International Court of Justice have a Criminal Jurisdiction” was held in the historic Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice. Judge Hilary Charlesworth was re-elected as a Judge of the International Court of Justice on 9 November 2023, having previously been elected on 5 November 2021 to serve the remainder of the late Judge James Crawford’s term. Prior to her election, Judge Charlesworth was Harrison Moore Professor of Law and a Melbourne Laureate Professor at Melbourne Law School. She was also a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University. Judge Charlesworth has been a visiting professor at various institutions including Harvard Law School, New York University Global Law School, University of California, Los Angeles, Paris I and the London School of Economics. She has been a member of the Executive Council of the Asian Society of International Law and the American Society of International Law as well as President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law. Judge Charlesworth is a member of the Institut de Droit International and the British Academy. She served as Judge ad hoc in the International Court of Justice in the Whaling in the Antarctic case (Australia v Japan) (2011-2014) and in the Arbitral Award of 3 October 1899 case (Guyana v Venezuela) (2019-2021).