Participating in the 2012 LSA Annual Meeting in Honolulu

Abstract

This paper describes the 2012 International Conference on Law and Society, held from 5th till 8th June in Honolulu, Hawaii, the USA. The author made a short presentation on the legitimacy of the International Criminal Court at a panel session named ’Why Here, Why Now? Legalities, Practicalities, and Politics of Forum Selection in International Law’. The three panelists engaged in active debates concerning Somali pirates and the International Criminal Court respectively. The author was inspired by a lively discussion of the panel and the questions from the floor. This paper gives brief accounts of the panel sessions of the right to health and of transnational legal order which the author sat in on and took place on the first day of the conference. The ‘Roundtable−−From Nuremberg and Tokyo to ICC: Post-WWII International Criminal Proceedings and Their Legacy Today’ was also mentioned in this paper. The roundtable-table session consisted of Siegfried Ramler, an interpreter at the Nuremberg tribunal, Professor Philipp Osten and Professor Yuma Totani. While the roundtable-talk was mainly about the Nuremberg tribunal, it suggested some lessons for the future. This conference was very informative and filled with very interesting panels and roundtables.