International criminal law

Gravity at the International Criminal Court: Admissibility and Prosecutorial Discretion analyses the International Criminal Court's application of the sufficient gravity criterion over the last two decades and poses a normative argument in favour of making this application more coherent. Learn More

Justice and Memory after Dictatorship: Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Fragmentation of International Criminal Law provides a ground-breaking socio-historical account of the global transformation of international criminal law after the fall of dictatorships at the end of the 1980s. Learn More

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This volume provides an innovative and engaging way of assessing the development of international law scholarship and practice by focusing on the 'leading works' of the discipline. It presents contributions from leading scholars of public international law and the works discussed represent a diverse range of subjects within the broader discipline. Learn More

The book analyses the current state of international law on detention and its alternatives across national laws and policies. It identifies critiques stemming from the perception that international law prioritises procedural safeguards, leaving substantive legitimacy, necessity, and proportionality of detention and its alternatives underdeveloped. Learn More

Victimhood has become a shorthand for any injustice suffered. Adopting a history of knowledge approach, Victims takes a fresh look at this phenomenon of classifying people as victims. It goes beyond existing narratives to provide a new and comprehensive explanation of the complex genealogy of modern concepts of victimhood. Learn More

This book provides insight into the evolution of the debate on the international criminal liability of corporations to facilitate discussion on the possibility of including corporations within the scope of international criminal law. It offers suggestions for developing an amendment to hold them accountable under the Statute of the ICC. Learn More

The revised 10th edition of this core textbook provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world's countries - each representative of a different type of legal system. Learn More

The revised 10th edition of this core textbook provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world's countries - each representative of a different type of legal system. Learn More

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This book provides a comprehensive account of how non-state actors rely on international criminal law as a tool in the service of progressive political causes. Learn More

This book identifies and discusses recent changes creating problems and opportunities for the theory and practice of international criminal justice. It will be of interest to students, researchers and academics, as well as justice advocates, diplomats and other government officials and policy-makers. Learn More