Webinars

Towards AIMJF’s centennial Youth judges’ associative movement

March 27, 2024

Speakers
– Jean Zermatten former Judge in Switzerland, former president of the Committee on the Rights
of the Child)
– Renate Winter, former judge in Austria, former former president of the Commiittee on the
Rights of the Child
– Joseph Moyersoen, former honorary Judge in Italy
– Moderator: Judge in Brazil, PhD in Human Rights (USP), AIMJF’s Chronicle Editor in Chief

Towards AIMJ F's centennial

September 26, 2022

Adolescentes con trastornos mentales y en conflicto grave con la ley

Speakers:
– Elbio Ramos, Judge of Juvenile Criminal Guarantees Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, professor at the Inter-American Open University
– Ana Paula Motta Costa, lawyer and sociologist, Doctor of Law, professor at the Law School of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
– Miguel Cillero Brunol. Doctor of Law from the Pablo de Olavide University (Seville). Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Diego Portales (Chile).

Moderator:
Jorge Jiménez Martin has been a judge in Spain since 2001 and a magistrate since 2007; He is the Director of the Judicial School of Spain and the Secretary General of the Ibero-American Network of Judicial Schools (RIAEJ)

January 27, 2021

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM 2021 Children´s rights and child-friendly justice Children´s rights and child-friendly justice: an issue of social justice and democracy

Speakers:
– Renate Winter | Committee on the Rights of the Child Ton Liefaard | Professor of Children’s Rights- Leiden University. The Netherlands
– Jean Trépanier | Emeritus Professor. Montreal University. Canada.
– Marta Pascual | President AIMJF / IAYFJM -International Association of Youth and Family Judges and Magistrates

December 10, 2020

Community Justice and Children's Rights: Comparative Approaches

Speakers:
– Reine Alapini-Gansou | Judge of the International Criminal Court
– Hynd Ayoubi Idrissi | Member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child; and Member of the Superior Council of the Judiciary in Morocco, Doctor in Human Rights
– Sébastien Grammond | Judge at the Federal Court of Canada
Moderator:
– Jean Trépanier | Professor Emeritus of the School of Criminology at the University of Montreal. He is an honorary member of the AIMJF.

November 19, 2020

The judicial guarantee of social rights of children and adolescents and the structural civil process: a Latin American comparative perspective.

Speakers:
– Sergio Arenhart Professor of the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil. Regional Prosecutor of the Republic. Magister, doctor and post-doctor in Law
– Alvaro Perez Ragone Magister and Doctor in Law (U. de Cologne/Germany), Postdoctor (U. dee Freiburg and Heidelberg-Germany) Prof. Tit. of Law Proc. Civil (USPT-Argentina), External Researcher (UCN-Chile) Member of the Argentine Association of Procedural Law, of the Ibero-American Institute of Procedural Law, of the International Association of Procedural Law.
– Santiago Pereira Campos Professor of Procedural Law and Director of the Master’s Degree in Procedural Law and Litigation at the University of Montevideo. Member of the Board of Directors of the Ibero-American Institute of Procedural Law and the Council of the International Association of Procedural Law. Former President of the Board of Directors of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA)
Moderator:
– Andrea Santos Souza, prosecutor in Brazil, Master of Philosophy (PUC Campinas) and specialist in children’s rights from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Secretary General of the AIMJF.

October 22, 2020

Restorative (juvenile) justice: international comparative trends.

Speakers:
– Professor Mara Schiff | Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida Atlantic University, Vice-President of the National Association for Community and Restorative Justice (NACRJ) Professor
– Ivo Aertsen | Senior Lecturer in the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), Belgium. Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Restorative Justice.
– Renate Winter | Vice-Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Member of the Appeals Chamber of the Residual Special Court of Sierra Leone
Moderator:
– Marta Pascual | AIMJF´s President, Penal Juvenile Judge in Buenos Aires, Argentina

September 25, 2020

The Right to Participation Comparative Approaches

Speakers:
– Benoit Van Keirsbilck | Director of Defense for Children International – Belgium
– Laurent Gebler | President of the Juvenile Court of Bordeaux, and President of the French Association of Youth and Family Magistrates
– Mona Paré | Associate Professor – Faculty of Law – Civil Law Section. University of
Ottawa, Canada Facilitator
Moderator:
– Lise Gagnon | Vice-Secretary General of the AIMJF, Judge at the Court of Quebec, Youth Division, in Sherbrooke, Canada

August 18, 2020

Interdisciplinarity and Guarantee of Children's Rights

Speakers:
– Ricardo Pérez Manrique | Judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Uruguay)
– Marisa Graham | Professor of Law at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
– Christina Baglietto | Regional Advisor for Latin America of the International Social Service (Mexico)
Moderator:
– Andrea Santos Souza | Prosecutor in Brazil, Master in Philosophy (PUC Campinas) and specialist in children’s rights from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Secretary General of the AIMJF.

July 22, 2020

UN committee on the rigths of the child's general comment 24 and the justice system

Speakers:
– Professor Anne Skelton | University of Pretoria, South Africa. Member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
– Judge Jorge Jiménez | Judge in Spain. Director of the Spanish Judicial School, Director of the Ibero American Network of Judicial Schools
– Justice Imman Ali | Honorary Justice, Supreme Court of Bangladesh, Appellate Division
Moderator:
– Eduardo Melo | Editor in Chief of the AIMJF Chronicle. Judge in Brazil

June 25, 2020

Balancing the right to health and the right to family life in different contexts

Speakers:
– Judge Joseph Moyersoen | Honorary Judge in Genova, Italy
– Prof. Magdalena Arczewska | University of Warsow, Poland
– Judge Jean-François Noël | Judge in Quebec, Canada.
– Judge Connie Mocumie | Judge in South Africa
Moderator:
– Eduardo Melo | Editor in Chief of the AIMJF Chronicle. Judge in Brazil

June 23, 2020

Due process of Law and the limits of flexibility and creativity in Juvenile Justice

Speakers:
– Renate Winter | Judge in Austria. Member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child
– Mary Beloff | Doctor in Criminal Law. Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the UBA Law School; and postgraduate professor of the Master’s Degree in Social Issues for Children and Adolescents, of the Mercosur Career in Criminal Law and of the Master’s Degree in Criminal Law
– Anthony Capizzi | Judge on the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas. Juvenile Division in Dayton, Ohio, United States.
– Maxxi Wantzen | Prosecutor in Itzehoe, Germany
Moderator:
– Marta Pascual | President AIMJF. Juvenile Penal Judge in Buenos Aires, Argentina