The Tribunal has made enormous contributions to the development of international criminal law and international humanitarian law, not only through its jurisprudence but also its procedure and practice. In many ways, it was tasked with “filling the gaps” in its own Statute, as well as in the international community’s understanding of certain crimes and modes of criminal liability. These contributions can be broadly organised into three subtopics. First, the ICTY has been a pioneer in defining modes of criminal responsibility. Second, the Tribunal has fleshed out the elements of several crimes under international law, clarifying various definitions and the factual scenarios in which they apply. Third, the ICTY has made significant achievements in relation to international criminal procedure. For each subtopic, two panel members will have a moderated discussion contrasting different aspects of these contributions to international criminal law.

Moderator:
Patricia Sellers, Special Advisor for Gender to the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC and Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, Oxford University
Panellists:
Judge Alphons Orie, Judge of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) and former ICTY Judge
Göran Sluiter, Professor of International Criminal Law and Procedure, University of Amsterdam
Judge Fausto Pocar, ad hoc Judge at the International Court of Justice and former Judge and President of the ICTY
William Schabas, Professor of International Criminal Law and Human Rights, Leiden University
Catherine MarchiUhel, Head of the International Impartial and Independent Mechanism on Syria and former Head of ICTY Chambers
Steven Hill, Legal Adviser and Director of Legal Affairs at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization