Full Description
Professor Robert Cryer was a foundational voice in modern international criminal law. This book celebrates his character, his life, his work, and his influence.
The book is a Festschrift of love and admiration to a voice that is dearly missed. Fittingly, the book also continues to voice the many conversations that Rob started. It thereby doubles as a critical examination of the life of international law.
The book constellates 17 expertly-authored chapters nurtured by four editors through five distinctive sections, each of which reflects on the character of international law. These sections, presented as acts, are: discipline and borders, (re)imagination and continuity, violence and reckoning, acoustics and storytelling, and friendship and kindness.
A wide gamut of touchpoints dovetails into a beautifully eclectic medley. These include criminal law, the law of war, music and harm, gender-based violence, nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence, law after war, the crime of aggression, drones and targets, the domestication of international law, and the role of law in inter-state relations. The book journeys to many places, including Japan, Bosnia and Ukraine, while reflecting on the role of teaching and mentorship in the life of international law.
Contents
1. Introduction: To Remember and Smile, Emma J Breeze, Mark Drumbl and Gerry Simpson
2. Obituary for Rob, Gerry Simpson
Act I: Discipline and Borders
3. The Interplay between International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law: Rob Cryer's Contribution to the Understanding of War Crimes Law, Rogier Bartels
4. Limits to the Notion of General Principles of Criminal Liability in International Criminal Law: The Case of Individual Criminal Responsibility for Collective Criminality, Adrian Hunt
5. Laws of War as Part of English Law, Alexander Orakhelashvili
Act II: (Re)Imagination and Continuity
6. Envisioning International Criminal Justice, Paul Roberts
7. Rob Cryer and the Art of Teaching (International) Law, Raphael Oidtmann
8. Principle or Pragmatism?: Misogyny as Genocide, Marianne L Wade
9. Remaking the Tokyo Tribunal: Robert Cryer and the Revival of Scholarship on the Tokyo Trial, Neil Boister
Act III: Violence and Reckoning
10. Tribute to Rob: Selectivity in ICL, Elies van Sliedregt
11. Envisioning Targeted Killings and the Crime of Aggression in the Age of Autonomous Weaponry, Shagufta Sen
12. 'Prosecuting the Leaders': Reflection on the Prohibition and Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression in International Law, Stoyan Panov
13. Robert Cryer and the Jus Post Bellum, Javier S Eskauriatza
Act IV: Acoustics and Storytelling
14. Diving into Noise and Bringing Clear Melody, Agnieszka Jachec-Neale
15. Music and War: The Themes from Anti-War Music and the Impact They Have, Eoin Campbell
16. Tokyo IMT: Another Sequel to a Prequel, Mark Drumbl and Solange Mouthaan
Act V: Friendship and Kindness
17. A Fine Art of Friendship Revisited, Emma J Breeze and David Turns
18. Cryer, et seq: The Collegial Character of Legal Scholarship, James Lee
19. Rob and Bert in Tokyo, Sergey Vasiliev
