Overview
- Analyzes the contentious relationship between African states/the African Union and the International Criminal Court
- Addresses fundamental issues in the field of international criminal law, e.g. implementation of the Rome Statute, deferrals of cases before the International Criminal Court, prosecution of crimes by third states on the basis of universal jurisdiction
- Contains all relevant material relating to the embattled relationship between the African Union, the International Criminal Court, and the UN Security Council
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Criminal Justice Series (ICJS, volume 1)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Prosecutions by the International Criminal Court in Africa
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African Prosecutions of International Crimes
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The African Union and the International Criminal Court
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gerhard Werle is a Professor of Law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Director of the South African-German Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice and an Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape. Lovell Fernandez is a Professor of Law at the University of the Western Cape and Director of the South African-German Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice. Moritz Vormbaum is a Senior Researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as well as Coordinator and Lecturer at the South African-German Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Africa and the International Criminal Court
Editors: Gerhard Werle, Lovell Fernandez, Moritz Vormbaum
Series Title: International Criminal Justice Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-029-9
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press The Hague
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-028-2Published: 17 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6265-029-9Published: 09 September 2014
Series ISSN: 2352-6718
Series E-ISSN: 2352-6726
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 303
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Human Rights, Public International Law