The International Issues Discussion (IID) series at Toronto Metropolitan University will present its first talk of the Winter 2025 series, “The End of Immunity: Holding World Leaders Accountable for Aggression, Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity.”

Our guest will be Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, the 4^th President of the International Criminal Court (ICC). From 2012 to 2021, he served as a trial judge and appellate judge at the ICC. Prior to that, Dr Eboe-Osuji served as the Legal Advisor to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and at the Special Court for Sierra Leone as a senior prosecution counsel. Before joining the international public service, he practiced law as a barrister in Canada and Nigeria. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Windsor, UCLA, Stanford University , the University of Toronto, and the Harvard Kennedy School. He has also taught as adjunct lecturer at the University of Ottawa. His many honours include the Goler T. Butcher Medal of the American Society of International Law and the Chief Emeka Anyaoku lifetime achievement award. He is a member of the High-Level Legal Panel on Media Freedom, and a Senior Peace Fellow of the Public International Law and Policy Group. Amongst his publications is End of Immunity: Holding World Leaders Accountable for Aggression, Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity (2024). He is currently the Distinguished International Jurist at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at the Toronto Metropolitan University.

His talk will be held in-person on Wednesday, January 22nd between 6:30 and 8:30 pm in ENG 103 (the Vari Engineering Building, 245 Church Street, Toronto).

 Attendance is free and everyone is welcome.  

Founded in 2005, the IID is a non-partisan, student-led forum designed to engage all members of the TMU community on major events and issues in contemporary global affairs through reasoned, objective, and scholarly discourse. For further details about the IID and our series please see http://iid.kislenko.com  or contact the IID student leaders at iidseries@gmail.com