International guest speakers to talk about criminal justice today and tomorrow

16/09/2008

The 11th International Criminal Law Congress in Sydney on 8-12 October 2008�will feature three international guests who specialise in relatively new areas of law.

Joel Michael Schwarz works in the US Department of Justice in Washington and is an expert in cybercrime. Before joining the DoJ he was Special Counsel for Internet Matters at the New York State Attorney General’s Office where he prosecuted matters including on-line gambling, phishing, securities fraud and on-line sales of drugs.� He’ll be discussing (in his personal capacity) cybercrime in the Twenty First Century – how it occurs, how it is policed and how companies and individuals can take steps to make themselves safer on line.

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Fatou Bensouda is Deputy Prosecutor (Prosecutions) at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Along with NSW Public Defender Chrissa Loukas and Senior Appeals Counsel at the ICTY, Helen Brady, Ms Bensouda will explain the nuances of briefing a prosecutor in a case that might include rape as a weapon of war or the conscription of children. She will also speak about the relationship between the ICC and domestic criminal jurisdictions. Ms Bensouda is from The Gambia and besides her role at the International Criminal Court is the Gambia’s first international maritime law expert.

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Shannon Smallwood is an indigenous prosecutor from the Prosecution Service of Canada (Whitehorse in the Northwest Territories). Ms Smallwood will join Rex Wild QC (co-chair of the Little Children are Sacred inquiry) to discuss Justice in Indigenous Communities.

For more information about the International Criminal Law Congress, or to register, visit the conference�web site.

16 September 2008

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