Professor Brian Lepard will speak at a conference on December 6 and 7 in South Africa on “Article 4(h) at Ten: How to End Mass Atrocities in Africa?” The conference will focus on how to implement Article 4(h) of the 2002 Constitutive Act of the African Union, which confers on the African Union the right to intervene in member states in cases of war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity.
Professor Lepard has published a number of books and articles relating to international human rights law, intervention to protect human rights victims, and the ethics of human rights, including “Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention: A Fresh Legal Approach Based on Fundamental Ethical Principles in International Law and World Religions,” published by Cambridge University Press in 2010 and “Hope for a Global Ethic: Shared Principles in Religious Scriptures.” His most recent book is “Customary International Law: A New Theory with Practical Applications.”