International Criminal Law

• Draws from a rich and varied range of sources, many of which are analysed here for the first time
• Offers a new and unprecedented critical perspective, equipping students with the tools they need to rapidly engage with the subject
• Written with the insight and authority of practitioners involved with international criminal justice over many years

Readership: Law students taking optional courses in international public law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, or international law and human rights. Also practitioners in these fields, human rights activists, and NGOs.

Alexander Zahar, Legal Officer in the Chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, and Goran Sluiter, Professor of Law (International Criminal Procedure) at the University of Amsterdam and a judge at the district courts of Utrecht and The Hague

Part One. Introduction to the Tribunals and International Criminal Law
1: International Criminal Tribunals: new faces in the international legal order
2: Participants in international criminal proceedings
3: "Custom" and other sources of substantive international criminal law
Part II. Critical Review of the Substantive Law
4: War-crimes law in the new century
5: Genocide law: An education in sentimentalism
6: Rise to prominence of crimes against humanity and codification of 'ethnic cleansing'
7: Facets of personal liability for participation in crimes
Part III. Procedure, Evidence, and Defences
8: Due process and human rights
9: Litigation landmarks in the preparation and conduct of trials
10: Evidence in international criminal proceedings
11: Defence practice at the international tribunals
Part IV: Tribunal-state Interactions: Coordination and Impact
12: Relations with national jurisdictions
13: International criminal law and the domestic legal order: the national application of international criminal law
Appendices
Bibliography