The emerging practice of the International Criminal Court / / edited by Carsten Stahn and Goran Sluiter ; with a foreword by Adriaan Bos.

• Superior document: Legal aspects of international organization ; v. 48
• TeilnehmendeR: Stahn, Carsten, 1971-; Sluiter, Goran.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Legal aspects of international organization ; 48.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (792 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The International Criminal Court is at a crossroads. In 1998, the Court was still a fiction. A decade later, it has become operational and faces its first challenges as a judicial institution. This volume examines this transition. It analyses the first jurisprudence and policies of the Court. It pro...

Table of Contents

• ICC marks five years since entry into force of rome statute / Judge Philippe Kirsch
• The International Criminal Court in motion / Luis Moreno Ocampo
• The International Criminal Court five years on : andante or moderato? / Antonio Cassese
• The International Criminal Court- its relationship to domestic jurisdictions / Judge Hans-Peter Kaul
• Auto-referrals and the complementary nature of the ICC / Jann K. Kleffner
• The legitimacy of withdrawing state party referrals and ad hoc declarations under the statute of the International Criminal Court / Mohamed M. El Zeidy
• Shaping the contours of domestic justice : the International Criminal Court and an admissibility challenge in the Uganda situation / William W. Burke-White & Scott Kaplan
• The International Criminal Court and its relationship to non-party states / Robert Cryer
• The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia : transitional justice, the transfer of cases to national courts, and lessons for the ICC / David Tolbert and Aleksandar Kontic
• The responsibility to enforce-connecting justice with unity / Rod Rastan
• Peace, security, and prosecutorial discretion / Jens David Ohlin
• The selection of cases by the office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court / Fabricio Guariglia
• Developing and implementing an effective positive complementarity prosecution strategy / Christopher Keith Hall
• Prosecutorial discretion and gravity / William A. Schabas
• Judicial review of prosecutorial discretion : five years on Carsten Stahn
• Article 21 of the statute of the International Criminal Court and the treatment of sources of law in the jurisprudence of the ICC / Gilbert Bitti
• The status of ICTY and ICTR precedent in proceedings before the ICC / Volker Nerlich
• Committing liability in international criminal law / Steffen Wirth
• Developments in the distinction between principal and accessorial liability in light of the first case-law of the international criminal court / Hector Olasolo
• Identifying an armed conflict not of an international character / Sandesh Sivakumaran
• Can the "elements of crimes" narrow or broaden responsibility for criminal behaviour defined in the Rome statute? / Otto Triffterer
• A structural analysis of the role of the pre-trial chamber in the fact-finding process of the ICC / Simon De Smet
• Fairness and expeditiousness in the international criminal court's pre-trial proceedings / Ekaterina Trendafilova
• Human rights protection in the ICC pre-trial phase / Goran Sluiter
• How to achieve fair and expeditious trial proceedings before the ICC : is it time for a more judge-dominated approach? / Robert Heinsch
• The trial chamber's discretionary power to devise the proceedings before it and its exercise in the trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo / Reinhold Gallmetzer
• The first jurisprudence of the appeals chamber of the icc / Franziska C. Eckelmans
• Interlocutory appeals in the early practice of the international criminal court / Hakan Friman
• Contribution of the registry to greater respect for the principles of fairness and expeditious proceedings before the International Criminal Court / Marc Dubuisson, Anne-Aurore Bertrand and Natacha Schauder
• A review of the experiences of the pre-trial and appeals chambers of the International Criminal Court regarding the disclosure of evidence / David Scheffer
• "Witness proofing" before the ICC : neither legally admissible nor necessary / Kai Ambos
• Anonymous witnesses before the international criminal Court : due process in dire straits / Michael E. Kurth
• Article 68 (3) and personal interests of victims in the emerging practice of the ICC / Sergey Vasiliev
• Role and practice of the office of public counsel for victims / Paolina Massidda and Sarah Pellet
• The crime of aggression / Roger S. Clark
• Evaluating domestic legislation on the customary crime of aggression under the Rome statute's complementarity regime / Astrid Reisinger Coracini
• Demystifying the procedural framework of the international criminal court : a modest proposal for radical revision / Bacle Don Taylor III.