Complementarity in the Rome Statute and National Criminal Jurisdictions

• Clarifies one of the key features of the emerging international criminal justice system established under the Rome Statute, combining practice-oriented analysis with theoretical reflection
• Provides a concrete conceptual manifestation of the complex inter-relationship between international courts and tribunals and domestic courts
• Analyses a highly relevant but relatively under-explored feature of the International Criminal Court in the context of a comprehensive overview of all the relevant provisions of the Rome Statute, making this a valuable reference work
• Examines the potential catalyst function of the principle of complementarity in relation to prosecutorial action against 'core crimes' at the domestic level

Readership: Academics, scholars, and advanced students of public international law, international criminal law, international courts, tribunals, and court procedures, and UN law. Also UN officials, staff of international courts and tribunals, and NGOs.

Jann K. Kleffner, Assistant Professor of International Law, Amsterdam Centre for International Law, University of Amsterdam Law School

"His project is to lead us first through a rigorous engagement with the text of the ICC Statute and then to focus our attention upon the "challenges ahead" (p.349): principally the need to conceptualise a broader system of international criminal justice in an equally rigorous and systematic manner. It is a task in which the present volume excels, and it will deservedly stand as a defining work in its field" - Douglas Guilfoyle, University College London, Law Quarterly Review

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Table of Cases
Table of Treaties
1: Introduction
2: National Suppression of Core Crimes
3: The Context and Emergence of Complementarity
4: Complementarity as a Legal Principle and as Criteria for Admissibility
5: The Procedural Setting of Complementarity
6: Complementarity and the Obligation to Investigate and Prosecute
7: Complementarity as a Catalyst for Compliance
8: Conclusions
Bibliography
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Index