Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Stahn & Sluiter: The Emerging Practice of the International Criminal Court

Carsten Stahn (Program Director, Grotius Centre of International Legal Studies & Leiden Univ. - Law) & Göran Sluiter (Univ. of Amsterdam - Law) have published The Emerging Practice of the International Criminal Court (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2009). Contents include:
  • Adriaan Bos, Foreword
  • Carsten Stahn & Göran Sluiter, Introduction: From “infancy” to emancipation? – A review of the Court’s first practice
  • Philippe Kirsch, ICC marks five years since entry into force of Rome Statute
  • Luis Moreno Ocampo, The International Criminal Court in motion
  • Antonio Cassese, The International Criminal Court five years on: Andante or Moderato?
  • Hans-Peter Kaul, The International Criminal Court – Its relationship to domestic jurisdictions
  • Jann K. Kleffner, Auto-referrals and the complementary nature of the ICC
  • Mohamed M. El Zeidy, The legitimacy of withdrawing State Party referrals and ad hoc declarations under the Statute of the International Criminal Court
  • William W. Burke-White & Scott Kaplan, Shaping the contours of domestic justice: The International Criminal Court and an admissibility challenge in the Uganda situation
  • Robert Cryer, The International Criminal Court and its relationship to Non-Party States
  • David Tolbert & Aleksandar Kontic, The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: Transitional Justice, the Transfer of Cases to National Courts, and Lessons for the ICC
  • Rod Rastan, The responsibility to enforce – Connecting justice with unity
  • Jens David Ohlin, Peace, Security, and Prosecutorial Discretion
  • Fabricio Guariglia, The selection of cases by the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
  • Christopher Keith Hall, Developing and implementing an effective positive complementarity prosecution strategy
  • William A. Schabas, Prosecutorial discretion and gravity
  • Carsten Stahn, Judicial review of prosecutorial discretion: Five years on
  • Gilbert Bitti, Article 21 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court and the treatment of sources of law in the jurisprudence of the ICC
  • Volker Nerlich, The status of ICTY and ICTR precedent in proceedings before the ICC
  • Steffen Wirth, Committing liability in international criminal law
  • Héctor Olásolo, Developments in the distinction between principal and accessorial liability in light of the first case-law of the International Criminal Court
  • Sandesh Sivakumaran, Identifying an armed conflict not of an international character
  • Otto Triffterer, Can the “Elements of Crimes” narrow or broaden responsibility for criminal behaviour defined in the Rome Statute?
  • Simon De Smet, A structural analysis of the role of the Pre-Trial Chamber in the fact-finding process of the ICC
  • Ekaterina Trendafilova, Fairness and expeditiousness in the International Criminal Court’s pre-trial proceedings
  • Göran Sluiter, Human rights protection in the ICC pre-Trial phase
  • Robert Heinsch, How to achieve fair and expeditious trial proceedings before the ICC: Is it time for a more judge-dominated approach?
  • Reinhold Gallmetzer, The Trial Chamber’s discretionary power to devise the proceedings before it and its exercise in the trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo
  • Franziska C. Eckelmans, The First Jurisprudence of the Appeals Chamber of the ICC
  • Håkan Friman, Interlocutory appeals in the early practice of the International Criminal Court
  • Marc Dubuisson, Anne-Aurore Bertrand, & Natacha Schauder, Contribution of the Registry to greater respect for the principles of fairness and expeditious proceedings before the International Criminal Court
  • David Scheffer, A review of the experiences of the Pre-Trial and Appeals Chambers of the International Criminal Court regarding the disclosure of evidence
  • Kai Ambos, “Witness proofing” before the ICC: Neither legally admissible nor necessary
  • Michael E. Kurth, Anonymous witnesses before the International Criminal Court: Due process in dire straits
  • Sergey Vasiliev, Article 68 (3) and personal interests of victims in the emerging practice of the ICC
  • Paolina Massidda & Sarah Pellet, Role and practice of the office of Public Counsel for Victims
  • Roger S. Clark, The crime of aggression
  • Astrid Reisinger Coracini, Evaluating domestic legislation on the customary crime of aggression under the Rome Statute’s complementarity regime
  • B. Don Taylor III, Demystifying the procedural framework of the International Criminal Court: A modest proposal for radical revision