Montreal Conference on Prevention of Genocide

The Legal Scholarship Blog mentions an upcoming Global Conference on the Prevention of Genocide hosted by the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism October 11th - 13th, 2007 in Montreal.

Great line-up of speakers:

• Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire
• Michael Ignatieff, Deputy Leader, Liberal Party of Canada
• Irwin Cotler, former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of Canada
• Jan Pronk, former Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Sudan
• Francis Deng, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide
• Juan Mendez, Former Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide
• Ben Kiernan, Professor of History and Director of the Cambodian Genocide Program, Yale University
• Hon. Gareth Evans, President of the International Crisis Group
• Brian Stewart, CBC Correspondent
• Salih Mahmoud Osman, Sudanese Human Rights Lawyer and activist
• Martha L. Minow, Harvard Law School
• Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court