时间：4月16日13:30 – 15:00

地点：文科楼模拟法庭

主讲人：Suzannah Linton教授（中国政法大学中欧法学院访问教授，英国国际法与比较法研究院研究员）

主持人：刘兰兰 （必赢76net线路官网法律系讲师，香港大学法学博士）

Professor Suzannah Linton will be discussing her Hong Kong Research Grants Council-funded project into the previously unknown war crimes trials that were held in Hong Kong from 1946-1948 and her book on the subject. 123 defendants, from Japan and Formosa (Taiwan), were tried for war crimes. The subject matter of the trials spanned war crimes committed during the fall of Hong Kong, its occupation, and in the period after the capitulation following the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but before the formal surrender. They included killings of hors de combat, abuses in prisoner-of-war camps, abuse and murder of civilians during the military occupation, forced labour, and offences on the High Seas. The events adjudicated included those from Hong Kong, China, Japan, the High Seas, and Taiwan. Taking place in the same historical period as the more famous Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, the Hong Kong war crimes trials provide key insights into events of the time, and the development of international criminal law and procedure in this period.

Professor Suzannah Linton

Professor Linton is Visiting Professor at the China University of Political Science & Law and the China-EU School of Law, and a Visiting Fellow at the British Institute for International & Comparative Law in London, UK. She has been Chair of International Law at Bangor University in the UK (2011-2014) where she founded the Bangor Centre for International Law, and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong (2005-2011). She is a UK-qualified solicitor and has, inter alia, served as a UN Prosecutor for Serious Crimes in East Timor, at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland, and has worked in the field in Cambodia, Indonesia, East Timor, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and elsewhere.

During her time in Hong Kong, Professor Linton uncovered war crimes trials held in the territory from 1946-1948 and brought them to global prominence through a database at the University of Hong Kong, and academic publications such as Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials (OUP 2013). This book is currently being translated for publication in Chinese. Professor Linton teaches and speaks regularly in mainland China, has judged the ICRC’s International Humanitarian Law Moot competitions in Beijing, Wuhan and Hong Kong, the China International Criminal Court Competition, and is an advisor to the Chinese Initiative on International Law and the Chinese Initiative on International Criminal Justice. She is also a founding member of the Antonio Cassese Initiative for Peace, Justice and Humanity, an advisor to the Federal Law Academy in Burma as well as the Burma Legal Aid Network. In 2014, she was appointed to a Visiting Fellowship at the Max Planck Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany.