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Presented by Criminal Defense Attorney Nancy Hollander Lake Forest, Ill.— “The International Criminal Court: America’s Hesitation and the World’s Demand for Justice” is the title of a talk to be presented by nationally-recognized criminal defense lawyer Nancy Hollander at Lake Forest College on Thursday, February 19 at 4 p.m. The presentation will be held in Meyer Auditorium, located in Hotchkiss Hall on the College’s Middle Campus, near the intersection of College and Sheridan roads. The talk is free and open to the public. For more information please call 847-735-6010. Hollander, a criminal defense lawyer with the Albuquerque, N.M firm of Freedman Boyd Daniels Hollander Goldberg and Cline P.A., is a past president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and serves on the Council of the International Criminal Bar for lawyers who will appear before the International Criminal Court (ICC). She was the coordinator of a jury trial training project in Russia and has served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme in Vietnam. In December, 2001, she was named one of America’s top fifty women litigators by the National Law Journal, is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, and the National Directory of Criminal Lawyers. She is a Fellow with the American Board of Criminal Lawyers. Hollander has appeared on such national television programs as Burden of Proof, the Today Show, Oprah Winfrey, CourtTV, and the MacNeill/Lehrer News Hour. The ICC, which officially came into existence in 2002, is authorized to try those accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes when states cannot or will not prosecute such cases in their national courts. In early 2003, the governing body for the ICC elected eighteen judges from throughout the world and elected the Court’s first chief prosecutor. Although the United States played a major role in helping to formulate the rules by which this Court will run, the US will no longer have any say in its affairs because the US has refused to ratify the ICC Treaty. This Court will be a grand experiment in international justice as it is a Court like no other. It will be a challenge for all who appear before it and all who work within it. No one is completely familiar with it because it has never existed before. Everyone who has anything to do with the ICC must learn anew how to practice law, how to prosecute, how to judge, how to represent defendants, witnesses and victims. In short, this Court must prove itself. The world will be watching to see if international law really can work. Lake Forest College is a private, liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,300 students representing 46 states and 50 other countries.
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