Similarly at trial, all the fanciest and most intellectual verbal
presentation of the criminal lawyer is worth little if not delivered in an attractive package in a likable way.
I can not begin to do justice to the day and a half
of presentations from Indigenous Elders, scholars, judges and
lawyers and in fact, nearly a week later, I continue to absorb and process what I heard about reconciliation in the context
of Indigenous law and culture,
criminal justice, child protection, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights
of Indigenous Persons and more.
In 1933, Polish
lawyer Raphael Lemkin made a
presentation to the Legal Council
of the League
of Nations conference on international
criminal law, for which he prepared an essay on the Crime
of Barbarity, positioned as a crime against international law.