BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Session events Calendar//IBA//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260422T020025Z DTSTART:20221101T171500Z DTEND:20221101T181500Z SUMMARY:A conversation with... Ambassador Beth Van Schaack and Prosecutor General of Ukraine\, Andriy Kostin DESCRIPTION:aConversationWithHumanRightsDr. Beth Van Schaack was sworn in as the Department’s sixth Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justi ce (GCJ) on March 17\, 2022. In this role\, she advises the Secretary of State and other Department leadership on issues\n\nrelated to the preve ntion of and response to atrocity crimes\, including war crimes\, crimes against humanity\, and genocide.\n\nAmbassador Van Schaack served as De puty to the Ambassador-at-Large in GCJ from 2012 to 2013. Prior to retur ning to public service in 2022\, Ambassador Van Schaack was the Leah Kap lan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Stanford Law School\, where sh e taught international criminal law\, human rights\, human trafficking\, and a policy lab on Legal &\; Policy Tools for Preventing Atrocities . In addition\, she directed Stanford’s International Human Rights &\ ; Conflict Resolution Clinic. Ambassador Van Schaack began her academic career at Santa Clara University School of Law\, where\, in addition to teaching and writing on international human rights issues\, she served a s the Academic Adviser to the United States interagency delegation to th e International Criminal Court Review Conference in Kampala\, Uganda. Ea rlier in her career\, she was a practicing lawyer at Morrison &\; Foe rster\, LLP\; the Center for Justice &\; Accountability\, a human rig hts law firm\; and the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Cri minal Tribunals for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.\n\nAm bassador Van Schaack has published numerous articles and papers on inter national human rights and justice issues\, including her 2020 thesis\, I magining Justice for Syria (Oxford University Press). From 2014 to 2022\ , she served as Executive Editor for Just Security\, an online forum for the analysis of national security\, foreign policy\, and rights. She is a graduate of Stanford (BA)\, Yale (JD) and Leiden (PhD) Universities.\ n\n\n\nAndriy Kostin was appointed as the Prosecutor General on 28 July 2022.\n\nProsecutor General Kostin is a graduate from Odesa National Uni versity\, the Faculty of Law. Earlier in his career\, he held several po sitions in Odesa and internationally as a practicing lawyer. He has work ed as an attorney at Polonsky &\; Partners from 1995 to 1998. From 19 98 onwards\, he worked as the Deputy Director and later on\, as the Dire ctor of the law firm “Pravo.” Prosecutor General Kostin was a member of the governing body of the International Bar Association – the IBA Counci l from 2013 to 2015.\n\nIn 2019\, Prosecutor General Kostin was elected as a member of the Parliament to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine\, becomin g the Head of the Legal Policy Committee in 2020 and leading its work ti ll 2022.\n\nHe has also served as the Chairman of the Subcommittee respo nsible for the Implementation of the Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights as well as a member of the Ukrainian Delegation to the Tril ateral Contact Group (TCG) at the negotiations with Russian Federation i n Istanbul\, Turkey.\n\nIn August 2021\, President Volodymyr Zelensky aw arded Prosecutor General Kostin with the honorary title of “Honored Lawy er of Ukraine” for “the significant professional achievements and years of ethical work\, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of independenc e of Ukraine.”\n\nBringing to justice all Russian war criminals\, uphold ing the integrity and independence of prosecutors as well as promoting s trong and independent Prosecution Service based on the principles of the rule of law and human rights are among the top priorities of the Chief Prosecutor of Ukraine.\n LOCATION:Ocean Drive Room\, Level 1 UID:f74b8626-e8e8-4785-a489-7406b07fe2e6 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR