l0:20-12:00 am Sunday, January l6, 2005 - Congregation Beth Israel
Narratives of Retributive and Non-Retributive Justice and Genocide
Professor William Schabas - "Challenges to Reconciliation: The Truth Commission of Sierra Leone"
Professor Terry Phelps - "The Far Side of Revenge: Quilts, Plays, Museums, and Truth Reports"
Wanda M. Akin, Esq. - "Literary Realism and Is Justice 'On the Cheap' Really Just?: A Report from the Defense on the Special Court for Sierra Leone"
Raymond M. Brown, Esq. - "You have 48 hours to Turn Yourself In! A Meditation on Choice, 'Otherness' and Atrocities"
Allan Gerson, Esq. - "Accountability: From Nazis to Facilitators of 9/11. The Banality of Evil Writ Large"

Professor William A. Schabas is director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where he also holds the chair in human rights law. Professor Schabas holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Toronto and LL.B., LL.M. and LL.D degrees from the University of Montreal. Professor Schabas is the author of twelve books dealing in whole or in part with international human rights law, including Introduction to the International Criminal Court (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004 (2nd ed.)), Genocide in International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) and The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002 (3rd ed.)). Professor Shabas is editor-in-chief of Criminal Law Forum, the quarterly journal of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law. In May 2002, the President of Sierra Leone appointed Professor Schabas to the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, upon the recommendation of Mary Robinson, the United National High Commission for Human Rights.