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This is a new edition of the first volume of Kai Ambos' acclaimed three-volume treatise on the principles and practice of international criminal law. This volume provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of the foundations and general part of international criminal law, and the general principles of international criminal justice.
List of contents
- 1: International Criminal Justice Institutions: From the First Ad Hoc Tribunals and Their Precedents to the ICC and Beyond
- 2: Concept, Function, and Sources of International Criminal Law
- 3: Imputation and General Structure of Crime in International Criminal Law
- 4: Individual Criminal Responsibility
- 5: Omission, in Particular Command Responsibility
- 6: Attempt as a Special Form of Individual Criminal Responsibility
- 7: The Subjective Requirements of International Crimes
- 8: Grounds Excluding Responsibility ('Defences')
About the author
Kai Ambos holds the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Law, International Criminal Law and Public International Law at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany. Previously he worked, inter alia, at the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany and has been involved in the Criminal Justice Reform in Latin America and Eastern Europe since then. He served as a Judge at the Provincial Court (Landgericht) of Lower Saxony in Göttingen from 24 March 2006 to 7 February 2017 (from January 2015 to 30 September 2015 delegated to the Appeals Court (Oberlandesgericht) Braunschweig); with his appointment as Judge at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC), The Hague, on 7 February 2017 he took leave from this judicial position. On 6 December 2017 he was appointed as Advisor (Amicus Curiae) to the Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace.
Summary
This is a new edition of the first volume of Kai Ambos' acclaimed three-volume treatise on the principles and practice of international criminal law. This volume provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of the foundations and general part of international criminal law, and the general principles of international criminal justice.
