Written by a team of international lawyers with extensive academic and practical experience of international criminal law, the fourth edition of this leading textbook offers readers comprehensive coverage and a high level of academic rigour while maintaining its signature accessible and engaging style. Introducing the readers to the fundamental concepts of international criminal law, as well as the domestic and international institutions that enforce that law, this book engages with critical questions, political and moral challenges, and alternatives to international justice. Suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students, academics and practitioners in the field, and cited by the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Court, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, and the highest courts in domestic systems, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in learning more about international criminal law.

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An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure

The authoritative introduction to the International Criminal Court, fully updated, discussing the work of the Court, its structures and institutions and current controversies.

An introduction to the International Criminal Court, sixth edition

International criminal law has witnessed a rapid rise after the end of the Cold War. The United Nations refers to the birth of a new 'age of accountability', but certain historical objections, such as selectivity or victor's justice, have never fully gone away, and many of the justice dimensions of international criminal law remain unexplored. Various critiques have emerged in socio-legal scholarship or globalization discourse, revealing that there is a stark discrepancy between reality and expectation. Linking discussion of legal theories, case-law and practice to scholarship and opinion, A Critical Introduction to International Criminal Law explores these critiques through five main themes at the heart of contemporary dilemmas:The shifting contours of criminality and international crimesThe tension between individual and collective responsibilityThe challenges of domestic, international, hybrid and regional justice institutionsThe foundations of justice proceduresApproaches towards punishment and reparationSuitable for students, academics and professionals from multiple fields wishing to understand contemporary theories, practices and critiques of international criminal law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

A Critical Introduction to International Criminal Law

The notion of progress performs a powerful role in international law discourse. The determination that a certain development constitutes “progress” impacts the production of knowledge, policy-making, allocation of resources, or access to power. The objective of the dissertation is to explore what makes a given development appear as constituting progress in international law. It is an investigation of how meaning about progress may be produced and an investigation of the consequences of the production of such meaning. The Dissertation argues that, although progress is a convenient rubric to describe international law events (arguments, developments, actions, and so on), it is a notion that is ultimately devoid of meaning unless placed in the context of a story of how things were, how things are, and how they need to be -- a “progress narrative”. Progress narratives are by definition non-objective and compete/exclude other progress narratives. International law discourse tends to deny or mask the non-objective character of its progress narratives. Although progress narrative may be a useful discursive form, the de-mystification of such narratives may be an equally productive and meaningful form of international law argument and one that gives access to a different horizon of action and intellectual possibility.

The Notion of Progress in International Law Discourse

The African Union and the Development of African International Criminal Law

The implementation of the rights of victims under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court presents momentous challenges to the Court. Given the nature of the crimes falling under the Court's jurisdiction, victims' reparation claims are often likely to number thousands, if not tens of thousands. Under the Statute, it is the Court's task to organize and determine the modalities of victims' participation in the reparation proceedings. The Court is well advised to closely examine the approaches and solutions developed by modern international and national mass claims programs that have faced similar challenges. The paper analyses in detail these challenges and outlines the options available to the Court.

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Reparations To Victims Before The International Criminal Court: Lessons From International Mass Claims Processes

Aspects philosophiques du droit de l'arbitrage international

TDM has become the hub of a global professional and academic network. Therefore we invite all those with an interest in Investment arbitration and Dispute Management to contribute. We are looking mainly for short comments on recent developments of broad interest. We would like where possible for such comments to be backed-up by provision of in-depth notes and articles (which we will be published in our 'knowledge bank') and primary legal and regulatory materials.

State As A Private: The Participation of States in International Commercial Arbitration

THERE ARE few legal terms that are considered so unproblematic that they hardly ever raise issues of interpretation. This should not come as a surprise, given that the resolution of legal disputes often tends to turn, at least in part, on how a particular legal term or concept should be interpreted or applied in a particular context. The more surprising, then, that there seems to be, at the very core of the conceptual structure of international commercial arbitration, a term that is considered largely unproblematic, if not self-evident. This is the very concept of ‘merits’ – a term commonly used to describe and refer to what a legal case is in substance all about. In short, the case may be understood in terms of its merits – if any.

When searching for reference materials for this short article, I could not find a single law review article devoted exclusively to the subject.1 Indeed, the concept of merits and its interpretation and application in the context of concrete disputes appears to have attracted only limited interest among legal academics, not to mention legal professionals. This may well be because concepts such as jurisdiction, procedure and merits, which form part of the conceptual structure of any legal system, are presumed to be generally known as a matter of legal education.2 In other words, as part of the shared conceptual framework or universe of the legal profession, they tend to be seen as part of what we argue with rather than argue about .

And yet, as this article will argue, the concept of ‘merits’, or rather, what we mean or refer to when speaking of the merits of a case, is far from unproblematic and in practice not at all self-evident. Indeed, at the risk of opening a conceptual Pandora's …

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Dealing with Pandora: The Concept of ‘Merits’ in International Commercial Arbitration

Domestic Review of Investment Treaty Arbitrations: The Swiss Experience

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