Book Launch
A book discussion with Judge Theodor Meron CMG
- Date
- Tuesday 3 February 2026
- Time
- Address
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Wijnhaven
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP The Hague - Room
- Auditorium 2.01
Sometimes the worst atrocities produce miracles. Judge Meron spent his childhood in a labour camp in Poland and lost most of his family during the holocaust. He has devoted his life to the pursuit of human rights, humanitarian law and justice. ‘For somebody with my background, to become a Judge to judge war crimes, genocides, and crimes against humanity’ he writes, ‘is one of the wonders of my life’. He has insisted that ‘genocides are never, anywhere, allowed to happen again’.
In this conversation with Judge Meron, we will discuss his new memoir (‘A Thousand Miracles’). We will reflect on his remarkable life story, his love for Shakespeare and the law, and some of the transformative moments of his career as legal adviser, diplomat, scholar, international judge and President of the ICTY and the IRMCT.
The event is held in cooperation between the Grotius Centre of International Legal Studies and the British Embassy in The Hague’s International Justice Seminar Series.
Moderator - Prof. Carsten Stahn: Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice, Leiden Law School
Judge Theodor Meron: former judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
Prof. Dapo Akande: Chichele Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford and member of the UN International Law Commission
Ms. Gabrielle McIntyre: Director of the Secretariat for the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court, and former Chef de Cabinet and principal legal advisor of the ICTY and IRMCT