Name: Judges and the Making of International Criminal Law
Brand: Brill Nijhoff
SKU: 9789004359963
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Author: Joseph Powderly
ISBN: 9789004359963

Judges and the Making of International Criminal Law

By Joseph Powderly

Brill Nijhoff June 2020

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ISBN-13: 9789004359963
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Publication: June 2020
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Countri(es) for reference only

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In Judges and the Making of International Criminal Law, Joseph Powderly explores the role of judicial creativity in the progressive development of international criminal law. This wide-ranging work unpacks the nature and contours of the international criminal judicial function. Employing empirical, theoretical, and doctrinal methodologies, it interrogates the profile of the international criminal bench, judicial ethics, and the interpretative techniques that judges have utilized in their efforts to progressively develop international criminal law.

Drawing on the work of Hersch Lauterpacht, it proposes a conception of the international criminal judicial function that places judicial creativity at its very heart. In doing so it argues that international criminal judges have a central role to play in ensuring that modern international criminal law continues to adapt to a volatile global environment, where accountability for crimes that shock the conscience of humanity is as much needed as at any moment in recent history.