American University Washington College of Law will host this full-day conference, bringing together experts in international criminal law and feminist jurisprudence to examine advances and missed opportunities in the prosecution of sexual and gender-based crimes before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the ad hoc and hybrid criminal tribunals. Featuring Keynote Speaker Patricia Viseur Sellers, former legal advisor for gender and trial attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. More information.

Professor Daniel J. Gervais will be the 4th annual Finnegan Distinguished Lecturer in Intellectual Property at American University Washington College of Law on October 21. The lecture, sponsored by WCL’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, will be titled “TRIPS 3.0.” Prof. Gervais is the author of the leading treatise on the history and interpretation of the TRIPS agreement and Editor in Chief of the Journal of World Intellectual Property. More on the lecture.

American University Washington College of Law Professor Ira Robbins has been appointed to the ABA Task Force on Post-Conviction Remedies.  Its goal is to propose revisions to the ABA Criminal Justice Standards on Post-Conviction Remedies, last revised in 1978.  The ABA Standards for Criminal Justice have guided state and federal legislators, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, and other criminal justice practitioners through all stages of the criminal process, from pretrial release to appellate review of sentences.