War Crimes: From the 1945 San Francisco U.N. Conference to Today

Presented on February 7, 2023

at the Browning Courthouse
95 7th Street
San Francisco, California

Do politics and diplomacy factor into our definition of war crimes? How are war crimes dealt with currently, compared to the past?

A panel discussion that featured Professor Laurel Fletcher (International Human Rights Law Clinic, UC Berkeley Law), Professor David Cohen (Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Stanford University), and Professor Saira Mohamed (UC Berkeley Law); moderated by Ambassador (Ret.) Jeff Bleich, with keynote by Robert James.

Co-sponsored by the San Francisco Historical Society and the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society.

Related Reading: https://jnslp.com/2024/01/20/the-san-francisco-conference-and-the-evitable-un-vetoes/

Moderator

  • Jeff Bleich
    U.S. Ambassador (Ret.)

Panelists

  • Laurel Fletcher
    Professor, International Human Rights Law Clinic, UC Berkeley Law
  • David Cohen
    Professor, Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Stanford University
  • Saira Mohamed
    Professor, UC Berkeley Law