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In Sunday Times magazine piece, Theodor Meron discusses work at international criminal tribunal

A in the May 20 Sunday Times magazine examined the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), whose president is , Charles L. Denison Professor of Law Emeritus and Judicial Fellow at ������ School of Law.

Deeming Meron’s biography, including a childhood in a Nazi work camp and a distinguished legal and academic career that made him an authority on international criminal law, “remarkable,” the writer asked Meron about parallels between his formative experiences as a Polish Jew under the Nazi regime and his ICTY work, in which he hears war crime cases on appeal.

"My experience during the war was a total loss of autonomy," Meron told the Sunday Times. "It had a tremendous impact on me at that time.... [When I was nominated] as a judge in this tribunal, I thought it was some kind of fate, some kind of poetic justice."

Meron said that he had the ability to remain objective despite his background: "I think that I would not have remained at The Hague for so many years if I had any doubts that my approach was not totally cool, objective, detached and professional.... [I]t is not something I am actively thinking of when I'm sitting on the bench, no."

Posted on May 29, 2012