The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law

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The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law

Edited by Kevin Jon Heller · Darryl Robinson · Frederic Megret · Sarah MH Nouwen · Jens David Ohlin
Oxford University Press February 2025

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9780198957041
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Oxford University Press
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February 2025
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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, however, 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, geography, philosophy, and international relations. The result is a Handbook that expands the discipline and should fundamentally alter how international criminal law is understood.

Table of Contents

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