A book discussion with Judge Theodor Meron CMG

• Date: 03 February
• Time: 17:00 - 19:00
• Location: Leiden University, Wijnhaven, Room 2.01

Sometimes the worst atrocities produce the greatest reforms of the law. Judge Meron spent his childhood in a labour camp in Poland and lost most of his family during the holocaust. He has devoted his life to the pursuit of human rights, humanitarian law and justice. ‘For somebody with my background, to become a Judge to judge war crimes, genocides, and crimes against humanity’ he writes, ‘is one of the wonders of my life’. He has insisted that ‘genocides are never, anywhere, allowed to happen again’.

In this conversation with Judge Meron, we will discuss his new memoir (‘A Thousand Miracles’). We will reflect on his remarkable life story, his love for Shakespeare and the law, and some of the transformative moments of his career as legal adviser, diplomat, scholar, international Judge and President of the ICTY and the IRMCT.

The event is held in cooperation between the Grotius Centre of International Legal Studies and the British Embassy in The Hague’s International Justice Seminar Series.

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