International criminal law

This book explores the relationship between the responsibility to protect principle; and the establishment of the International Criminal Court, intended to punish perpetrators. The book advocates a 'protection first, punishment later' model. Learn More

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This book examines how civil society engaged with transitional justice in Russia, demonstrating a broad range of roles civil society can undertake while operating in a restrictive political context. Learn More

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This book addresses the issue of the timing of transitional justice policies in countries that have negotiated transitions from authoritarianism to democracy. Learn More

This volume offers a study of when and why contested international norms decline. It includes four contemporary case studies (the torture prohibition, the responsibility to protect, the duty to prosecute institutionalized in the ICC, and commercial whaling) and two historical case studies (privateering and the transatlantic slave trade). Learn More

This book is an article by article commentary on the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and its three Protocols on Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants. It analyses the nature of transnational organized crime, and examines how the Convention has been implemented since it came into force in 2003. Learn More

Forced Mobility of EU Citizens is a critical evaluation from an empirical perspective of existing practices of the use of transnational criminal justice instruments within the European Union. Learn More

This book presents the argument that solution-driven policy and treaty changes, if faithfully implemented, will rekindle the relevance of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in combatting and prosecuting atrocity crimes. Learn More

By interrogating how international criminal tribunals relate to their domestic counterparts through the principle of complementarity, International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability advocates for improved institutional design and less deference toward states to strengthen the enforcement of international criminal law. Learn More

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This book provides an essential and critical overview of the most significant issues concerning the domestication of international criminal law, in particular with regard to the implementation of the ICC Statute. Learn More

This book explores how the unique historical development of Islamic Shari'a criminal law alongside English common law in northern Nigeria has created a hybridised criminal legal system through a pluralist dynamic of mutual accommodation. It studies how this system may potentially be accommodated by the International Criminal Court. Learn More