Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law

Moving away from conventional approaches to the study of the subject, the Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law draws on insights from disciplines both outside of criminal law and outside of law itself to critically examine issues such as international criminal law's actors, rationales, boundaries, and narratives

List of contents

• 0: Kevin Heller, Frédéric Mégret, Sarah Nouwen, Jens Ohlin and Darryl Robinson: Introduction


• SECTION I: ACTORS


• 1: Marie-Sophie Devresse and Damien Scalia: An Empirical Analysis of International Criminal Law: The Perception and Experience of the Accused


• 2: Jenia Iontcheva Turner: Defense Perspectives on Fairness and Efficiency at the International Criminal Court


• 3: Dov Jacobs: Neither Here nor There: The Position of the Defence in International Criminal Tribunals


• 4: Mikkel Jarle Christensen: The Creation of an Ad Hoc Elite: And the Value of International Criminal Law Expertise on a Global Market


• 5: Neha Jain: Teachings of Publicists and the Reinvention of the Sources Doctrine in International Criminal Law


• SECTION II: SPACES


• 6: Tom Dannenbaum: Legitimacy in War and Punishment: The Security Council and the ICC


• 7: Christopher Gevers: Africa and International Criminal Law


• 8: Harmen van der Wilt: On Regional Criminal Courts as Representatives of Political Communities: The Special Case of the African Criminal Court


• SECTION III: RATIONALES


• 9: Miriam Gur-Arye and Alon Harel: Taking Internationalism Seriously: Why International Criminal Law Matters


• 10: Mark A. Drumbl: Impunities


• 11: Marko Milanovic: Courting Failure: When Are International Criminal Courts Likely to be Believed by Local Audiences?


• SECTION IV: CRIMES


• 12: Alexander K.A. Greenawalt: 'What is An International Crime?'


• 13: Alejandro Chehtman: A Theory of International Crimes: Conceptual and Normative Issues


• 14: Samuel Moyn: From Aggression to Atrocity: Rethinking the History of International Criminal Law


• 15: Edwin Bikundo: Enslavement as a Crime against Humanity: Some Doctrinal, Historical, and Theoretical Considerations


• SECTION V: MODALITIES


• 16: Alette Smeulers: A Criminological Approach to the ICC's Control Theory


• 17: Jean d'Aspremont: The Two Cultures of International Criminal Law


• 18: Adil Ahmad Haque: Immunity and Impunity


• 19: Mark Klamberg: Epistemological Controversies and Evaluation of Evidence in International Criminal Trials


• 20: Leora Bilsky: The Right to Truth in International Criminal Law


• 21: Saira Mohamed: From Machinery to Motivation: The Lost Legacy of Criminal Organizations Liability


• SECTION VI: NARRATIVES


• 22: Kim Christian Priemel: Historical Reasoning and Judicial Historiography in International Criminal Trials


• 23: Lawrence Douglas: Criminal/Enemy


• 24: David Luban: The Enemy of All Humanity


• 25: Sofia Stolk and Wouter Werner: Moving Images: Modes of Representation and Images of Victimhood in Audio-Visual Productions


• SECTION VII: ANXIETIES


• 26: Henry Lovat: International Criminal Tribunal Backlash


• 27: Sergey Vasiliev: The Crises and Critiques of International Criminal Justice


• 28: Itamar Mann: Hangman's Perspective: Three Genres of Critique following Eichmann


• 29: Marlies Glasius and Tim Meijers: Inequality of Arms Reversed? Defendants in the Battle for Political Legitimacy


• SECTION VIII: BOUNDARIES


• 30: Laurel E. Fletcher: International Criminal Law and the Subordination of Emancipation: The Question of Legal Hierarchy in Transitional Justice


• 31: Sara Kendall and Sarah M.H. Nouwen: International Criminal Justice and Humanitarianism


• 32: Cheah W.L.: International Criminal Law and Culture


• 33: Christine Schwöbel-Patel: The Core Crimes of International Criminal Law


• 34: Douglas Guilfoyle: Transnational Crimes


• 35: Frédéric Mégret: The Unity of International Criminal Law: A Socio-Legal View


• SECTION IX: FUTURE(S)


• 36: Gerry Simpson: International Criminal Law: The Next Hundred Years

About the author

Kevin Jon Heller is Associate Professor of Public International Law at the University of Amsterdam and Professor of Law at the Australian National University. He holds a PhD in law from Leiden University and a JD with distinction from Stanford Law School. His research interests focus on international criminal law, international humanitarian law, and the use of force, with a particular emphasis on the methodologies employed by those fields. His books include The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law (OUP, 2011); The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials (OUP, 2013) (edited with Gerry Simpson); and The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law (Stanford University Press, 2011) (edited with Markus Dubber).

Frédéric Mégret is a Full Professor and William Dawson Scholar at the Faculty of Law, McGill University. He holds an LLB from King's College London, a DEA from the Université de Paris I (Panthéon Sorbonne), and a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva), as well as a diploma from Sciences Po Paris. His research focuses on international criminal justice, the laws of war, international human rights law, transitional justice, and general international law.

Sarah MH Nouwen is Reader in International Law at the University of Cambridge, Co-Deputy Director and Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and a Fellow of Pembroke College. As of September 2020, she will be a Professor of International Law at the European University Institute in Florence. Sarah is also an Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of International Law. She is the author of Complementarity in the Line of Fire: The Catalysing Effect of the International Criminal Court in Uganda and Sudan (CUP, 2013), an empirical study into the effects of the complementarity principle in the Rome Statute on the legal systems in Uganda and Sudan. She has advised the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Department for International Development and several NGOs. In 2010-2011 she was seconded as Senior Legal Advisor to the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel on Sudan.

Jens David Ohlin is Vice Dean and Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. Professor Ohlin's work stands at the intersection of four related fields: criminal law, criminal procedure, public international law, and the laws of war. Trained as both a lawyer and a philosopher, his research has tackled questions as diverse as criminal conspiracy and the punishment of collective criminal action, the philosophical foundations of international law, and the role of new technologies in warfare, including cyberwar, remotely piloted drones, and autonomous weapons. He is the author of the forthcoming monograph, Election Interference: International Law and the Future of Democracy (CUP, 2020).

Darryl Robinson is Associate Professor at Queen's University Faculty of Law (Canada). He was a Hauser Scholar at New York University School of Law (LL.M International Legal Studies), a Gold Medalist at the UWO Faculty of Law, and a clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada. He served as a Legal Officer at Foreign Affairs Canada from 1997-2004. His work in the creation of the International Criminal Court and in the development of Canada's new war crimes legislation earned him a Minister's Citation and a Minister's Award for Foreign Policy Excellence. He is a co-author of Robert Cryer et al, Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure (CUP, 2019, 4th edition), and was the 2013-14 recipient of the Antonio Cassese Prize for International Criminal Legal Studies.

Summary

Moving away from conventional approaches to the study of the subject, the Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law draws on insights from disciplines both outside of criminal law and outside of law itself to critically examine issues such as international criminal law's actors, rationales, boundaries, and narratives

Product details

• Authors: Darryl Robinson, Darryl (Professor of Law Robinson, Robinson Darryl
• Assisted by: Kevin Heller (Editor), Heller Kevin (Editor), Frédéric Mégret (Editor), Sarah Nouwen (Editor), Nouwen Sarah (Editor), Jens Ohlin (Editor), Ohlin Jens (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.02.2020
• EAN: 9780198825203
• ISBN: 978-0-19-882520-3
• No. of pages: 912
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Criminal Procedure, LAW / Courts, LAW / International, Politics & government, International Criminal Law, Warfare & defence, Politics and government, Warfare and defence, Public international law: criminal law, International Organisations & Institutions