Martti Koskenniemi

Between impunity and show trials.

Guest Lecture Series of the Office of the Prosecutor

Martti Koskenniemi*

Between impunity and show trials

5 August 2004
The Hague

Martti Koskenniemi is Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki and Global Professor of Law at New York University. He was appointed as a member of the United Nations
International Law Commission in 2002. From 1997- 2003, he served as a judge of the Administrative Tribunal of the Asian Development Bank. He was counselor for legal affairs at the Finnish Ministry
for Foreign Affairs from 1978 to 1994. His main publications include From Apology to Utopia. The Structure of International Legal Argument (1989); and The Gentle Civilizer of Nations. The Rise and
Fall of International Law 1870-1960 (2002).

Text with kind permission of Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Published in the Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, Yearbook, Volume 6, 2002, p. 1-35. Published previously by Kluwer Law
International, now Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Printed in The Netherlands.

Guest Lecture Series of the Office of the Prosecutor.

ICC-OTP and individual authors 2004.