New! July 14, 2009: International Justice Day Event: This Friday, July 17, 2009 from 5:30pm - 8:00pm at the 10th floor Event Room, Chicago-Kent College of Law (565 West Adams Street, Chicago, IL) there will be a showing of the film The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court in honor of International Justice Day and in commemoration of the adoption of the Rome Statute, the treaty that established and now governs the International Criminal Court. After the film there will be a panel discussion featuring Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Bart Brown, Daniel Rothenberg, the Managing Director of International Projects for the DePaul University International Human Rights Law Institute. Attorney Dan Thomann will serve as moderator for the panel and Q&A.

The official event flyer is available here.

The event is free, however, advance registration is required: please RSVP to Ms. Violeta Jimenez vjimenez@kentlaw.edu.

The film showing is sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of the UNA USA, Amnesty International, the Chicago Alliance for the ICC (CAICC) and Chicago-Kent College of Law, in collaboration with P.O.V., PBS' award-winning nonfiction film series.

Background on The Reckoning: Directed by Pamela Yates, The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court is a stirring and visually stunning film about the Court, the countries it deals with and the reasons for its creation. The American NGO Coalition for the ICC (AMICC) (a program of the UNA USA) advised the filmmakers on the production of the film. The film premiered at Sundance in January and opened the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York. More information, including a trailer, is available here, and P.O.V.'s preview page is here.