Full Description
In the past twenty years, international criminal law has become one of the main areas of international legal scholarship and practice. Most textbooks in the field describe the evolution of international criminal tribunals, the elements of the core international crimes, the applicable modes of liability and defences, and the role of states in prosecuting international crimes.
The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law, by contrast, takes a theoretically informed and refreshingly critical look at the most controversial issues in international criminal law, challenging prevailing practices, orthodoxies, and received wisdoms. Some of the contributions to the Handbook come from scholars within the field, but many come from outside of international criminal law, or indeed from outside law itself. The chapters are grounded in history, philosophy, and international relations. The result is a Handbook that expands the discipline and should fundamentally alter how international criminal law is understood.
Contents
0: Kevin Heller, Frédéric Mégret, Sarah Nouwen, Jens Ohlin and Darryl Robinson: Introduction
SECTION I: ACTORS
1: Marie-Sophie Devresse & Damien Scalia: An Empirical Analysis of International Criminal Law: The Perception and Experience of the Accused
2: Jenia Iontcheva Turner: Defense Perspectives on Fairness and Efficiency at the International Criminal Court
3: Dov Jacobs: Neither Here nor There: The Position of the Defence in International Criminal Tribunals
4: Mikkel Jarle Christensen: The Creation of an Ad Hoc Elite: And the Value of International Criminal Law Expertise on a Global Market
5: Neha Jain: Teachings of Publicists and the Reinvention of the Sources Doctrine in International Criminal Law
SECTION II: SPACES
6: Tom Dannenbaum: Legitimacy in War and Punishment: The Security Council and the ICC
7: Christopher Gevers: Africa and International Criminal Law
8: Harmen van der Wilt: On Regional Criminal Courts as Representatives of Political Communities: The Special Case of the African Criminal Court
SECTION III: RATIONALES
9: Miriam Gur-Arye & Alon Harel: Taking Internationalism Seriously: Why International Criminal Law Matters
10: Mark A. Drumbl: Impunities
11: Marko Milanovic: Courting Failure: When Are International Criminal Courts Likely to be Believed by Local Audiences?
SECTION IV: CRIMES
12: Alexander K.A. Greenawalt: 'What is An International Crime?'
13: Alejandro Chehtman: A Theory of International Crimes: Conceptual and Normative Issues
14: Samuel Moyn: From Aggression to Atrocity: Rethinking the History of International Criminal Law
15: Edwin Bikundo: Enslavement as a Crime against Humanity: Some Doctrinal, Historical, and Theoretical Considerations
SECTION V: MODALITIES
16: te Smeulers: A Criminological Approach to the ICC's Control Theory
17: Jean d'Aspremont: The Two Cultures of International Criminal Law
18: Adil Ahmad Haque: Immunity and Impunity
19: Mark Klamberg: Epistemological Controversies and Evaluation of Evidence in International Criminal Trials
20: Leora Bilsky: The Right to Truth in International Criminal Law
21: Saira Mohamed: From Machinery to Motivation: The Lost Legacy of Criminal Organizations Liability
SECTION VI: NARRATIVES
22: Kim Christian Priemel: Historical Reasoning and Judicial Historiography in International Criminal Trials
23: Lawrence Douglas: Criminal/Enemy
24: David Luban: The Enemy of All Humanity
25: Sofia Stolk & Wouter Werner: Moving Images: Modes of Representation and Images of Victimhood in Audio-Visual Productions
SECTION VII: ANXIETIES
26: Henry Lovat: International Criminal Tribunal Backlash
27: Sergey Vasiliev: The Crises and Critiques of International Criminal Justice
28: Itamar Mann: Hangman's Perspective: Three Genres of Critique following Eichmann
29: Marlies Glasius & Tim Meijers: Inequality of Arms Reversed? Defendants in the Battle for Political Legitimacy
SECTION VIII: BOUNDARIES
30: Laurel E. Fletcher: International Criminal Law and the Subordination of Emancipation: The Question of Legal Hierarchy in Transitional Justice
31: Sara Kendall and Sarah M.H. Nouwen: International Criminal Justice and Humanitarianism
32: Cheah W.L.: International Criminal Law and Culture
33: Christine Schwöbel-Patel: The Core Crimes of International Criminal Law
34: Douglas Guilfoyle: Transnational Crimes
35: Frédéric Mégret: The Unity of International Criminal Law: A Socio-Legal View
SECTION IX: FUTURE(S)
36: Gerry Simpson: International Criminal Law: The Next Hundred Years
