In day five of PILPG’s Online International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Summer School program, Sandra Hodgkinson provided a lecture on the mechanisms often used to pursue transitional justice, followed by lectures from Chris Fleming and Dr. Greg Noone on the future of international law, specifically focused around cyber warfare and emerging technologies. Click the video below to access a recording of this training, you can also click on the buttons below to find the slides used to guide the conversation.
Click the image above to watch a recording of Day Five of PILPG’s International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law Summer School
Schedule
Intro to Transitional Justice: elements, non-judicial processes, amnesty, memorialization, advocacy
by Sandra Hodgkinson
Break
Future of International Law: drones, cyber, new weapons/technologies in law and warfare
by Chris Fleming & Dr. Gregory Noone
Experts:
Dr. Gregory P. Noone is the Executive Director of the Public International Law and Policy Group (PILPG). Dr. Noone currently leads the Yemen track two diplomacy team and served as the Senior Legal Advisor for the Human Rights Documentation Solutions project. Dr. Noone has conducted PILPG justice system assessments in Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire as well as provided transitional justice assistance in post-Gaddafi Libya and to the Syrian opposition. Dr. Noone was also part of the international effort investigating the Myanmar government’s atrocities committed against their Rohingya population. He worked as an investigator in the refugee camps in Bangladesh and as one of the legal experts on the report’s findings. Previously, Dr. Noone worked as a Senior Program Officer for the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), served as a Captain in the United States Navy, as the Commanding Officer of the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) reserve unit, and as the Commanding Officer of the Navy JAG International and Operational Law reserve unit as well as the Director of the Department of Defense’s Periodic Review Secretariat (PRS).
Dr. Greg Noone
Sandra Hodgkinson is Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at Leonardo DRS. In this role, she leads the strategic planning process, mergers and acquisition activities, and partnerships for the company. She is a former career civil servant achieving the rank of Senior Executive Service (SES), with positions at the Department of Defense, State Department and The White House. She is also a retired U.S. Navy Captain and currently serves on the American Bar Association CyberSecurity Legal Task Force, as a Senior Peace Fellow at the Public Interest Law and Policy Group, on the ASIL ICC Policy Task Force, and is a career member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Sandra Hodgkinson
Chris Fleming
Christian P. Fleming is an experienced litigator, specializing in plaintiff’s personal injury cases and criminal defense. Chris is also currently assigned as the Commanding Officer of the Navy Reserve Defense Institute of International Studies. Previously, he served as the Commanding Officer of the Navy Reserve unit that supports the Naval Justice School, and as the Executive Officer of the Navy Reserve Naval War College’s International Law Department. He has taught courses on the law of armed conflict and trial advocacy throughout the world.
As a Navy JAG, Chris’s first tour was in the Trial Service Office, Pacific Detachment, Yokosuka, Japan, where he served as a military prosecutor. Upon joining the Navy Reserves, Chris was assigned to the International and Operational Law Unit as an international law attorney. Called back to active duty in 2008, Chris served as the legal advisor to the Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group, Forward Headquarters, Kuwait.