2012 Harold J. Berman Lecture: Irwin Cotler
Canadian Parliamentarian and former Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler said in the inaugural Harold J. Berman lecture that Iran's highest officials should be held legally accountable by the international community for their language of "genocidal incitement." He said that Iran's possible nuclear threat increases exponentially when paired with its leaders - including President Mahmūd Ahmadinejād and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei- publicly calling for the annihilation and destruction of the Jewish state.