Washington and Lee law professor Jim Moliterno was one of a small number of panelists invited to present earlier this month at an Aspen Institute Law & Justice Symposium on mass atrocities. The event was titled “Trying Atrocity Crimes: The Khmer Rouge Trials, Transitional Justice, and the Rule of Law; An Aspen Institute Symposium for Judges and Scholars.” Prof. Moliterno presented during a session titled “Recent Experiences from the Field.” His role was to situate his work on legal institution building within the context of prevention and remedy for atrocities.
Prof. Moliterno is an acknowledged international expert in legal ethics and professionalism and has traveled throughout the world to help countries develop ethics policies and training programs. He has engaged in substantial international legal ethics and legal education reform work, designing new lawyer and judge ethics courses in Serbia, Armenia, Georgia, Czech Republic, Japan, Indonesia and Thailand. He has trained law professors in China, Thailand, Georgia, Armenia and Serbia. He has trained judges in Kosovo and both judges and prosecutors in Indonesia. He has worked to revise the lawyer ethics code in Thailand and Georgia and lectured extensively on international lawyer ethics topics in Spain, Czech Republic, and Slovakia.
