{"id":2734,"date":"2012-09-10T00:09:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T00:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lawfoundation.org.nz\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2018-05-08T23:49:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T23:49:10","slug":"13th-international-criminal-law-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/?p=2734","title":{"rendered":"13th International Criminal Law Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 13th International Criminal Law Congress is being held in Queenstown this week, with the theme &#8220;The Shrinking International Criminal Code&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The programme covers a diverse range of criminal justice topics including: cybercrime, future forensic challenges, brain-injured criminal justice detainees, the effectiveness of special intervention courts and bill of rights issues.<\/p>\n<p>The international presenters include leading judges, practitioners, academics and forensic experts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Judge Stein Schjolberg<\/strong>, Court of Appeal Judge in Norway and Chair of the EastWest Institute (EWI) Cybercrime Legal Working Group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Presentation: &#8216;Potential New International Legal Mechanisms Against Global Cyberattacks and Other Global Cybercrime&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Radio NZ &#8220;Nine to Noon&#8221; interview is available on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/ninetonoon\/audio\/2531428\/cybercrime-do-we-need-a-un-treaty-to-tackle-it.asx\">podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr Michael King<\/strong>, magistrate, Western Australia, and adjunct senior law lecturer at Monash University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Special Intervention Courts &#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Simon Walsh<\/strong>, Coordinator of Biometrics, Forensic and Data Centres, Australian Federal Police.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;To Infinity and Beyond: A Critical Look at DNA as the \u2018Gold Standard&#8217; of Forensic Evidence Interpretation&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr George Williams<\/strong>, leading Australian constitutional lawyer, law professor at the University of New South Wales, public commentator and author.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Australia&#8217;s Novel Approach to Human Rights Protection: Can Parliament go it Alone?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tony Bouchier, director of the organising committee, says attendees comprise members of the judiciary and the Criminal Bar, legal academics, researchers and students of law.<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iclc2016.org\/\">Link to International Criminal Criminal Law Congress<\/a><\/h5>\n<h4>The Law Foundation is providing funding of up to $30,000 for this conference; to bring international keynote speakers, and to enable law students and young practitioners to attend.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 13th International Criminal Law Congress is being held in Queenstown this week, with the theme &#8220;The Shrinking International Criminal Code&#8221;. The programme covers a diverse range of criminal justice topics including: cybercrime, future forensic challenges, brain-injured criminal justice detainees, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/?p=2734\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8925,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions\/8925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}