NUREMBERG TRIALS AND CURRENT BALKAN WAR CRIMES INVESTIGATIONS TO BE
FOCUS OF 50TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE 

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 11 -- World War II war crimes
trials and their lessons for today will be the subject of a national
conference here Nov. 17-18.
	The conference, "Nuremberg and the Rule of Law:  A 50-Year
Verdict," commemorates this year's 50th anniversary of the start of
the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals.  Focusing on both the
history of the trials and today's war crimes accusations in the
former Yugoslavia, the sessions will take place in Decker Auditorium
at the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's School.  The conference is
cosponsored by the JAG School, University of Virginia Center for
National Security Law and Duke University Center on Law, Ethics and
National Security.
	Highlights of the conference will include its opening panel
at 9 a.m. Nov. 17 with three key members of World War II war crimes
tribunals discussing their experiences.  They are Thomas Lambert Jr.
and Henry T. King Jr., former prosecutors at Nuremberg, and R. John
Pritchard, a member of the international military tribunal for
Japanese war crimes in the Far East.
	A discussion of Nuremberg and the development of
international criminal law, at 11 a.m. Nov. 17, will include M.
Cherif Bassiouni, former chair of a United Nations commission that
established the U.N. war crimes tribunal for crimes in the current
conflict in the former Yugoslavia.
	Graham Blewitt, the deputy prosecutor in that tribunal, and
Georges Abi-Saab, a retired former judge of the tribunal, will be
among speakers at 2 p.m. Nov. 17.
	Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, commander of the U.S. Southern
Command, will be the keynote speaker at the conference's concluding
luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Nov. 18.
	For additional information or registration information
contact Donna Ganoe at the Center for National Security Law (804)
924-7441.
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November 10, 1995