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Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, will speak via a teleconference to participants of a Northwestern University School of Law conference on challenges confronting the court in the investigation of atrocity crimes in Darfur, Uganda and the Democratice Republic of the Congo.

Hosted by Northwestern’s Center for International Human Rights and the International Law Society, the conference will take place beginning at noon on Wednesday, Nov. 15, in room 204 (Booth Hall) of the School of Law’s Levy Mayer Hall, 375 E. Chicago Ave. The conference is free and open to the public.

Moreno-Ocampo of Argentina has a distinguished career as prosecutor, trial attorney, university lecturer and legal strategist on issues ranging from international criminal justice to human rights law, corruption control and journalists’ protection.

In 1984, he led the investigations into the case against nine senior army commanders, including three former heads of state, from the military juntas which ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1980. The subsequent trial was the first case brought against individuals responsible for mass killings since the Nuremberg Trial of Nazi officers.

During the proceedings, Moreno-Ocampo presented arguments for 700 counts of “murder, kidnapping and torture,” calling 835 witnesses and citing thousands of documents. He later prosecuted those responsible for mass killings during the 1987 and 1992 military rebellions in Argentina.

For a decade after the so-called “Junta Trials,” Moreno-Ocampo was involved in several high- profile cases of international criminal justice. He worked on the extradition of the former Nazi officer Erich Priebke to Italy, the trial of Chilean secret police for the murder of Gen. Carlos Prats and the case against military commanders accused of malpractice during the Malvinas/Falklands war.

A member of the global board of Transparency International, Moreno-Ocampo has also been a visiting professor at both Stanford University and Harvard University.

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