Zusatztext This book provides a preeminent contribution to current comprehension of the ICC and the international criminal justice project. The Law and Practice of the International Criminal Court comprehensively addresses many of the contentious issues facing the Court and provides new ways of appreciating these issues. A key strength is that the authors are from a wide variety of backgrounds: academia, non-governmental sphere and practice. This provides a diversity of approaches and information. In this volume, Stahn has brought together many of the strongest contributors to the field of international criminal justice. Informationen zum Autor Carsten Stahn is Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at Leiden University and Program Director of the Grotius Centre. He is the author of The Law and Practice of International Territorial Administration: Versailles to Iraq and Beyond. He has published articles on international criminal law and transitional justice in leading international journals (American Journal of International Law, European Journal of International Law, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Harvard International Law Journal), and edited several collections of essays in the field. Klappentext The International Criminal Court has significantly grown in importance and impact over the decade of its existence. This book assesses its impact, providing a comprehensive overview of its practice. It shows how the Court has contributed to major developments in international criminal law, and identifies the ways in which it is in need of reform. Zusammenfassung The International Criminal Court has significantly grown in importance and impact over the decade of its existence. This book assesses its impact, providing a comprehensive overview of its practice. It shows how the Court has contributed to major developments in international criminal law, and identifies the ways in which it is in need of reform. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction More than a Court, Less than a Court, Several Courts in One? - The International Criminal Court in Perspective Part 1: Context, Challenges, and Constraints 1: Richard Dicker: The International Criminal Court (ICC) and Double Standards of International Justice 2: Leslie Vinjamuri: The ICC and the Politics of Peace and Justice 3 The Relationship between the ICC and the United Nations Security Council: Deborah Ruiz Verduzco 4: Anton Du Plessis and Ottilia Anna Maunganidze: The ICC and the AU 5: Stuart Ford: How Much Money Does the ICC Need? 6: Jonathan O'Donohue: The ICC and the ASP Part 2: The Relationship to Domestic Jurisdictions 7: Rod Rastan: Jurisdiction 8: Mohamed M El Zeidy: Ad hoc Declarations of Acceptance of Jurisdiction: The Palestinian Situation under Scrutiny 9: Harmen van der Wilt: Self-Referrals as an Indication of the Inability of States to Cope with Non-State Actors 10: Carsten Stahn: Admissibility Challenges Before the ICC: From Quasi-Primacy to Qualified Deference? 11: Robert Cryer: The ICC and its Relationship to Non-States Parties 12: Dov Jacobs: The Frog that Wanted to Be an Ox: The ICCs Approach to Immunities Part 3: Prosecutorial Policy and Practice 13: Paul Seils: Putting Complementarity in its Place 14: Susana SáCouto and Katherine Cleary Thompson: Investigative Management, Strategies, and Techniques of the ICCs OTP 15: Fabricio Guariglia and Emeric Rogier: The Selection of Situations and Cases by the OTP of the ICC 16: William Schabas: Selecting Situations and Cases 17: Jenia Iontcheva Turner: Accountability of International Prosecutors Part 4: The ICC and Its Applicable Law 18: Gilbert Bitti: Article 21 and the Hierarchy of Sources of Law before the ICC 19: Joseph Powderly: The Rome Statute and the Attempted Corseting of the Interpretative Judicial Function: Reflections on Sources of Law and Int...

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Carsten Stahn is Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at Leiden University and Program Director of the Grotius Centre. He is the author of The Law and Practice of International Territorial Administration: Versailles to Iraq and Beyond. He has published articles on international criminal law and transitional justice in leading international journals (American Journal of International Law, European Journal of International Law, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Harvard International Law Journal), and edited several collections of essays in the field.

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The International Criminal Court has significantly grown in importance and impact over the decade of its existence. This book assesses its impact, providing a comprehensive overview of its practice. It shows how the Court has contributed to major developments in international criminal law, and identifies the ways in which it is in need of reform.

Inhalt

• Introduction More than a Court, Less than a Court, Several Courts in One? - The International Criminal Court in Perspective

• Part 1: Context, Challenges, and Constraints

• 1: Richard Dicker: The International Criminal Court (ICC) and Double Standards of International Justice

• 2: Leslie Vinjamuri: The ICC and the Politics of Peace and Justice

• 3 The Relationship between the ICC and the United Nations Security Council: Deborah Ruiz Verduzco

• 4: Anton Du Plessis and Ottilia Anna Maunganidze: The ICC and the AU

• 5: Stuart Ford: How Much Money Does the ICC Need?

• 6: Jonathan O'Donohue: The ICC and the ASP

• Part 2: The Relationship to Domestic Jurisdictions

• 7: Rod Rastan: Jurisdiction

• 8: Mohamed M El Zeidy: Ad hoc Declarations of Acceptance of Jurisdiction: The Palestinian Situation under Scrutiny

• 9: Harmen van der Wilt: Self-Referrals as an Indication of the Inability of States to Cope with Non-State Actors

• 10: Carsten Stahn: Admissibility Challenges Before the ICC: From Quasi-Primacy to Qualified Deference?

• 11: Robert Cryer: The ICC and its Relationship to Non-States Parties

• 12: Dov Jacobs: The Frog that Wanted to Be an Ox: The ICCs Approach to Immunities

• Part 3: Prosecutorial Policy and Practice

• 13: Paul Seils: Putting Complementarity in its Place

• 14: Susana SáCouto and Katherine Cleary Thompson: Investigative Management, Strategies, and Techniques of the ICCs OTP

• 15: Fabricio Guariglia and Emeric Rogier: The Selection of Situations and Cases by the OTP of the ICC

• 16: William Schabas: Selecting Situations and Cases

• 17: Jenia Iontcheva Turner: Accountability of International Prosecutors

• Part 4: The ICC and Its Applicable Law

• 18: Gilbert Bitti: Article 21 and the Hierarchy of Sources of Law before the ICC

• 19: Joseph Powderly: The Rome Statute and the Attempted Corseting of the Interpretative Judicial Function: Reflections on Sources of Law and Interpretative Technique

• 20: Elies van Sliedregt: Perpetration and Participation in Article 25(3)

• 21: Jens David Ohlin: Co-Perpetration: German Dogmatik or German Invasion?

• 22: Thomas Weigend: Indirect Perpetration

• 23: Hector Olasolo: Forms of Accessorial Liability under Article 25(3)(b) and (c)

• 24: Kai Ambos: The ICC and Common Purpose - What Contribution is Required under Article 25(3)(d)?

• 25: Alejandro Kiss: Command Responsibility under Article 28 of the Rome Statute

• 26: Mohamed Elewa Badar and Sara Porro: Rethinking the Mental Elements in the Jurisprudence of the ICC

• 27: Claus Kreß: The ICCs First Encounter with the Crime of Genocide: The Case against Al Bashir

• 28: Darryl Robinson: Crimes against Humanity: A Better Policy on Policy

• 29: Michael A. Newton: Charging War Crimes: Policy and Prognosis from a Military Perspective

• 30: Anthony Cullen: The Characterization of Armed Conflict in the Jurisprudence of the ICC

• 31: Roger S. Clark: The Crime of Aggression

• 32: Niamh Hayes: *La Lutt…