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President of International War Crimes Tribunal to Speak at NSU Law Center
Judge Patrick L. Robinson, who oversaw trial of Slobodan Milosevic, to present at Black History Month event on Feb. 14
FT. LAUDERDALE-DAVIE, Fla. – The Honorable Judge Patrick L. Robinson of Jamaica, president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), will speak at the Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center on Feb. 14, 2009, as part of the university’s celebration of Black History Month. The event is co-sponsored by the Caribbean Law Programs and the Inter-American Center for Human Rights of NSU Law Center, the Latin American Caribbean Forum of NSU’s Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Consul General of Jamaica and Unique Creations, Inc.
Judge Robinson currently serves as the president of the ICTY. He has served as the presiding judge for Trial Chamber III since 2004 and oversaw the historic trial of the former president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, the first former Head of State to be brought to trial for war crimes.
Judge Robinson has been on the ICTY since 1998 and became president on Nov. 17, 2008. The ICTY is a body of the United Nations established to prosecute serious crimes committed during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and to try their alleged perpetrators.
A book signing will be held with Judge Robinson at 2 p.m. and he will give a presentation at 4 p.m. on “The Interaction of Legal Systems in the Work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.” His book is entitled Jamaican Athletics – A Model for 2012 And the World: Jamaica’s Triumph in Beijing.
The book signing and presentation are free and open to the public. The event will be held at the Law Center on NSU’s main campus at 3305 College Ave. in Davie on Saturday, Feb. 14.
Judge Robinson has had a distinguished career in public service in Jamaica and internationally, particularly in the field of international law. He was a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) from 1987 to 1995 and was a member of the United Nation’s International Law Commission between 1991 and 1995. For 26 years, he was Jamaica’s representative on the Legal Committee of the United Nations General Assembly to which he was accredited as an ambassador.
Judge Robinson is a lifelong sports enthusiast. A Jamaica College old boy, he was a member of the school’s track team that won the Inter-Scholastic Championships (CHAMPS) in 1959 and a member of the school’s Sunlight Cup cricket team. His book seeks to explain the reasons for Jamaica’s high quality performances in global athletics over the past 60 years.
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