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2014

Guest Lecture on Human Trafficking

On 17 April 2014, the Groningen Journal of International Law is organising, in cooperation with the Department of International and Constitutional Law of the University of Groningen,a guest lecture on human trafficking, the topic of our latest published issue.

Dr. Alexis Aronowitz from University College Utrecht and Elif Isitman (M.Sc./M.A.), two of the authors of our issue on human trafficking, will provide their observations on the matter of “Trafficking of Human Beings for the Purpose of Organ Removal: Are (International) Legal Instruments Effective Measures to Eradicate the Practice?”

Alexis A. Aronowitz received her Bachelors of Criminal Justice from Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana (1979)  and her Masters (1981) and PhD (1988) in Criminal Justice from the State University of New York at Albany. She is a senior lecturer in criminology at University College Utrecht and works as an independent consultant on human trafficking. She has served as a staff member and consultant on projects in the field of trafficking in human beings for the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the International Organization for Migration, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and other international organizations. She is the author/co-author of three U.N. reports as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles on the subject. Her book Human Trafficking Human Misery: The Global Trade in Human Beings, was published by Praeger in 2009.

Elif Isitman received her MSc in International Crimes and Criminology and an MA in Journalism from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her MSc dissertation concerned the trafficking of women and girls in post-conflict areas, using Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kosovo as case studies. Following her MSc studies, she interned and worked at the Bureau of the Dutch National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence against Children (BNRM), where she conducted research into child pornography and corresponding perpetrator profiles. She currently lives and works in Leiden.

Judge Kees Klomp from The Hague Court of Appeal, who is also a member of the special human trafficking chamber of the Court of Appeal, will elaborate on how the matter is dealt with in practice.

Judge Kees Klomp graduated from the University of Groningen in 1982. Since 1995, he is a judge at the Amsterdam District Court. Since 2009, he has trained judges in Eastern European Countires, recently in Bosnia Herzegovina and Albania. Currently he is a judge at the The Hague Court of Appeal. He is working as an investigating magistrate and from 1 April 2014, hewill also be a member of the special human trafficking chamber of the Appeal Court.

We would like to thank everyone who attended our guest lecture on human trafficking. A special thank you to our two speakers Nicole Siller, PhD. Candidate at the University of Groningen and Kees Klomp, Judge at The Hague Court of Appeal.

2013

Forum on Drones in International Law

A presentation and discussion on GroJILs latest edition: Drones in International Law.

Join us for a debate on one of the most troubling and current issues in international law. Each of the Journal’s articles will be introduced by a short presentation by one of our editors, followed by an interactive analysis of the authors’ ideas and proposals for updating existing law in order to accommodate these new situations.

The aim is to produce a policy document based on these discussions, which will be published on GroJIL’s websiteso come along and get involved!!

….there will also be post-Forum general socialising over drinks!

Date: Thursday, 16 May 2013

Time: 18.00 – 20.00

Location: University of Groningen, Academy Building, Room 7

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