Guest lecture:
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Professor Martti Koskenniemi presenting ICC-OTP Guest lecture at the interim seat of the Court on 5 August 2004.
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 counsellor 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).