National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and the International Legal Advisory Team (ILAT), with the

cooperation of the invite you to

The Negotiating Panel of the liberation movement

Center for Conflict Studies of the University of Utrecht,

AN INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FORUM

WHERE INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS WILL DISCUSS KEY POLITICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES AND QUESTIONS IN THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS AND ARMED CONFLICT IN THE PHILIPPINES
THEME

What is the Role of International Law and International Legal Experts in of the Peace Negotiations? Furthering the Goals
DATE

PROGRAM
14:00 - 14:15 OPENING INTRODUCTION OF ILAT AND ILAT MEMBERS 14:15 - 14:30 LUIS JALANDONI, CHAIR OF NDFP NEGOTIATING PANEL: POLITICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN THE GPH-NDFP PEACE NEGOTIATIONS 14:30 - 15:15 PRESENTATION OF QUESTIONS BY THE NDFP PANEL AND ILAT MEMBERS 15:15 - 15:30 COFFEE BREAK 15: 30 -16:45 DISCUSSIONS / OPEN FORUM 16:45! -17:00 SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS, CONCLUSIONS, AND CLOSING

MONDAY NOVEMBER 14, 2011 14.00 - 17.00 HOURS

LOCATION

Faculty of Humanities (Room 003) Utrecht, The Netherlands

REFERENCES

University of Utrecht Drift 21

Coni Ledesma
+31624676537 +31302310431

Ruth de Leon

MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ADVISORY TEAM (ILAT) TO THE NDFP NEGOTIATING PANEL
Mary Kristerie Baleva (Philippines) - International consultant of the War Crimes Studies Center of the University of California, Berkeley; Master in Human Rights Law.

ABOUT ILAT
The International Legal Advisory Team (ILAT) is a newly formed network of international lawyers and scholars from Belgium, Chile, India, the Philippines, South Africa, United Kingdom and the United States. It aims to advise and assist the NDFP Negotiating Panel by providing probono advise and assistance in atters of law arising from and/or related to the peace negotiations including international human rights law, international humanitarian law, international treaty law, international standards and principles of constitutional law. What is the value, significance and binding effect of the bilateral agreements between the Parties? How can reference to international law help in providing safety and immunity guarantees to the Parties? How can the joint and separate implementation of a human rights and international humanitarian law agreement? be guaranteed? How can the Parties be committed to negotiate on socio-economic reforms? How can reference to international law be an aid to political and constitutional reforms? How can international law help end hostilities? How can international law be used in building peace ? What is the role of international law and international legal experts in the substantive items in the agenda of the peace negotiations?

Prof. Bill Bowring (United Kingdom) - Barrister, Director of the LLM/MA in Human Rights, Birkbeck, School of Law, University of London; Fellow of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex; President, European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH). Prof. Marjorie Cohn (United States) - Past President of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) of the US; US representative to the Executive Council of the American Association of Jurists (AAJ); Professor of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law; Lecturer on international human rights and U.S. foreign policy; Criminal defense attorney. Jo Dereymaeker (Belgium) - Member, Progress Lawyers Network in Antwerp; Member, International Association of Peoples Lawyers (IAPL); Member, International Fact Finding Missions to the Philippines on Attacks on Filipino Lawyers and Judges organized by the Dutch Lawyers for Lawyers Foundation; Practices criminal law. Jan Fermon (Belgium) - Deputy Secretary, International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL); Founder of Progress Law Network in Brussels; Member, International Criminal Bar Association; Professor of Law, University of Maastricht, Practices in the European Court of Justice; Specializes in international criminal, human rights and aliens law. Richard Harvey (United Kingdom) - Officer of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers of the UK; Barrister and practices international human rights law in the UK, US, and UN International Criminal Tribunals; Has advised governments including South Africa and Haiti, NGOs such as Amnesty International and Greenpeace International. Prof. Lennox Hinds (United States) Founder of the National Conference of Black Lawyers; Former counsel for the Government of South Africa, the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela; Professor of law in the Criminal Justice Program at Rutgers University in New York. *Justice Pius Langa (South Africa) - former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa; Member, Constitutional Committee of the African National Congress; Helped craft the South African Constitution. Jeanne Mirer (United States) - Current President of the IADL; Co-chair of the International Committee of the NLG; Specializes in Employment and Labor Rights Law; Finished masteral law with a thesis on the Filipino-American war. Anna Morris (United Kingdom) - Officer of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers of the UK; Master's degree holder in international human rights; Has worked on a number of high-profile cases in the Philippines; Barrister and specializes in human rights law. Jitendra Sharma (India) - Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India; Threeterm President and President Emeritus of the IADL; First Asian to be elected as President and Secretary General of IADL; Has led international tribunals which heard the cases of the Agent Orange/Dioxin cases in Vietnam and of US war crimes during the US-Korea war: Specializes in labor law. Edre Olalia (Philippines) - President of the IAPL; Secretary General of the National Union of Peoples Lawyers (NUPL) in the Philippines; A legal consultant of the NDFP Negotiating Panel; Practices human rights and criminal law and engages in UN human rights mechanisms and procedures. *Judge Juan Salvador Guzmn Tapia (Chile) - first judge to prosecute former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet on human rights charges; Was a member of the Santiago Appeals Court. *For confirmation