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KORN LECTURE SERIES PRESENTS: WAR CRIMES AND IRAQ

***** Henry H. Korn Moderates Panel of Experts Exploring Accountability, Evidence and Prosecution of War Crimes (New York - September 20, 2003) *****

Henry H. Korn will moderate the Korn Lecture, an annual presentation on legal and public service issues at Cornell University. A distinguished panel of guests will address the accountability of leaders of the former Iraqi regime in "War Crimes and Iraq," which will be presented on Thursday, October 23rd at Cornell Law School.

The panel will explore the types of evidence that can be presented in prosecutions and the relevant forum where such proceedings may be brought. Panelists include James Finkel, Special Assistant to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency for War Crimes; David Scheffer, Ambassador at Large for War Crimes during the Clinton Administration; and David Wippman, International Law Professor at Cornell University.

The lecture series "The Art, Commerce and Ethics of Contemporary Law" is funded in Mr. Korn's name by Nathaniel Lapkin, a grateful client and early CEO of Warner Brothers. The goal of the series is to provide a forum for prominent attorneys to discuss timely issues of national importance. Past lecturers have included United States Attorney Mary Joe White, New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer and the former CEO of RJR Nabisco, Stephen Goldstone, who inaugurated the series in 1998.

Mr. Korn, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney with extensive litigation experience in complex construction, commercial and criminal cases, is a partner with LePatner & Associates, the leading construction law firm that provides a full range of comprehensive legal, business advisory and project management services for corporate and institutional clients in the real estate industry. Mr. Korn supervises the firm's litigation practice on behalf of LePatner & Associates client roster. He is a member of the Cornell University Council, having been appointed by the Cornell University Board of Trustees in 1999. Together with his wife, Mr. Korn acquired the original Nuremberg War Crimes papers of William Donovan, head of the OSS in World War II, and donated them to Cornell University for research.