C.V. Starr Lecture II

The Impact of European Court of Human Rights Judgments on Criminal Law Practice in Europe with speaker Willem F. Korthals Altes, Senior Judge, Criminal Law Division, The Rechtbank of Amsterdam; and Visiting Professor, New York Law School

Approved for 1.5 CLE credits in Professional Practice (CLE credits are free for graduates of New York Law School)
 

• Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012
• Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
• Location: 185 West Broadway (Faculty and Staff Commons, W-203, 2nd floor). Click here for directions.
• Contact: Michael Rhee at (212) 431-2865. You may also send an e-mail to Michael.Rhee@nyls.edu
• Click here to register: There is no charge for CLE credits for NYLS graduates. There is also no charge for students and members of the general public not seeking CLE credit. But registration is still required.

Criminal law is no longer a domestic matter in Europe. The principles and rules in the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the Treaty on the European Union apply to all signatories alike. Judgements issued by the European Court of Human Rights – which resolves disputes concerning the Convention – can have an immediate impact on criminal law practice when they are enforced in individual EU member states. Still, the Convention and the Treaty are not always applicable in the same countries, and their terms may interfere with each other. In his lecture, Senior Judge Willem Altes of Amsterdam will provide an overview of these issues and many others.

Willem F. Korthals Altes

Willem F. Korthals Altes (1949) has been a judge since 1995, serving in the civil law and criminal law divisions of the Rechtbank (District Court) of Amsterdam and in the civil law division of the Gerechtshof (Appellate Court) of Arnhem, The Netherlands. He is currently a Senior Judge in the Criminal Law Division of the Rechtbank of Amsterdam. Until July 2011, he also had a two-year part-time assignment as Advisor on European and International Co-operation to the Council for the Judiciary of The Netherlands. Having started his career as an attorney-at-law with Loeff & Van der Ploeg in Amsterdam (1976-1981), Mr. Korthals Altes moved to academia, beginning with two years of study (M.C.J. ’82) and research at New York University. He spent one year as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and in 1985 joined the Faculty of Law of his Alma Mater, the University of Amsterdam, where he specialized in media and telecommunications law. In 1989, he took his Ph.D. at the University of Amsterdam by successfully defending his doctoral thesis on the journalists’ privilege of confidentiality of sources. He has published numerous articles on various aspects of media and telecommunications law, both in The Netherlands and abroad.