PhD studies in human rights: Routledge Handbook of International Criminal Law

Wednesday 17 November 2010

Routledge Handbook of International Criminal Law

The Routledge Handbook of International Criminal Law, edited by Dr Nadia Bernaz of the University of Middlesex and by myself, was published a few days ago. Many leading practitioners, academics and judges, as well as a number of 'rising stars' in the field, have contributed.
Here are the contents:

Contents: 1. Introduction, William Schabas and Nadia Bernaz Part 1: Historical and Institutional Framework 2. Trial at Nuremberg, Guénaël Mettraux 3. The TokyoTrial, Neil Boister 4. The Trials of Eichann, Barbie & Finta, Joe Powderly 5. The Ad Hoc International Criminal Tribunals: Launching a New Era of Accountability, Michael P. Scharf and Margaux Day 6. The International Criminal Court, David Scheffer 7. Hybrid Tribunals, Fidelma Donlon Part 2: The Crimes 8. Genocide, Paola Gaeta 9. Crimes against humanity, Margaret M. deGuzman 10. War crimes, Anthony Cullen 11. Aggression, Nicolaos Strapatsas 12. Terrorism as an International Crime, Fiona De Londras 13. Drug Crimes and Money Laundering, Robert Cryer Part 3: The Practice of International Tribunals 14. Understanding the Complexities of International Criminal Tribunal Jurisdiction, Leila Sadat 15. Admissibility in International Criminal Law, Mohamed M. El Zeidy 16. Defences to International Crimes, Shane Darcy 17. Participation in Crimes in the Jurisprudence of the ICTY and ICTR, Mohamed Elewa Badar 18. International Criminal Procedures: Trial and Appeal Procedures, Hakan Friman 19. Sentencing and Penalties, Nadia Bernaz 20. State Cooperation and Transfers, Judge Kimberley Prost 21. Evidence, Nancy Combs Part 4: Key Issues in International Criminal Law 22. The Rise and Fall of Universal Jurisdiction, Luc Reydams 23. Immunities, Rémy Prouvèze 24. Truth Commission, Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm 25. State responsibility and International Crimes, Eric Wyler and León Castellanos-Jankiewicz 26. International Criminal Law and Victims’ Rights, Carla Ferstman 27 Amnesties, Louise Mallinder 28. International Criminal Law and Human Rights, Thomas Margueritte 29. Conclusion, William Schabas and Nadia Bernaz

This should be a very useful addition to bookshelves of those who work in the field. For non-specialists who only need one book on the subject, it may be just the right thing. And it should be a very good teaching text.

Many thanks to all of our contributors.

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hkotry said...: > "This should be a very useful addition to bookshelves of those who work in the field".

What about those yet to enter the field; do you have a reading list for prospective students?; 17 November 2010 at 14:05

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William A. Schabas is professor of international law at Middlesex University in London. He is also professor of international criminal law and human rights at Leiden University, emeritus professor human rights law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights of the National University of Ireland Galway, and an honorary professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, in Beijing and Wuhan University. He is the author of more than 20 books and 300 journal articles, on such subjects as the abolition of capital punishment, genocide and the international criminal tribunals. Professor Schabas was a member of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in Human Rights and president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. He serves as president of the Irish Branch of the International Law Association chair of the Institute for International Criminal Investigation. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Here is the full c.v.

Dr Yvonne McDermott is Senior Lecturer in Law at Bangor University, UK, where she is also Director of Teaching and Learning and Co-Director of the Bangor Centre for International Law. Yvonne is a graduate of the National University of Ireland, Galway (B. Corp. Law, LL.B.), Leiden University (LL.M. cum laude) and the Irish Centre for Human Rights (Ph.D.). Her research focuses on fair trial rights, international criminal procedure and international criminal law. She is the author of Fairness in International Criminal Trials (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Niamh Hayes has been the Head of Office for the Institute for International Criminal Investigations (IICI) in The Hague since September 2012. She is about to complete her Ph.D. on the investigation and prosecution of sexual violence by international criminal tribunals at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway. She previously worked for Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice as a legal consultant, and as an intern for the defence at the ICTY in the Karadzic case. She has lectured on international criminal law and international law at Trinity College Dublin and, along with Prof. William Schabas and Dr. Yvonne McDermott, is a co-editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to International Criminal Law: Critical Perspectives (Ashgate, 2013). She is the author of over 45 case reports for the Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law and has published numerous articles and book chapters on the investigation and prosecution of sexual and gender-based violence as international crimes.

Joseph Powderly is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University. Between September 2008 and January 2010, he was a Doctoral Fellow/Researcher at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, where he worked, among other projects, on a Irish Government-funded investigation and report into the possible perpetration of crimes against humanity against the Rohingya people of North Rakhine State, Burma/Myanmar. He is currently in the process of completing his doctoral research which looks at the impact of theories of judicial interpretation on the development of international criminal and international humanitarian law. The central thesis aims to identify and analyze the potential emergence of a specific theory of interpretation within the sphere of judicial creativity. Along with Dr. Shane Darcy of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, he is co-editor of and contributor to the edited collection Judicial Creativity in International Criminal Tribunals which was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. He has written over 80 case-reports for the Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law, as well as numerous book chapters and academic articles on topics ranging from the principle of complementarity to Irish involvement in the drafting of the Geneva Conventions. In December 2010, he was appointed Managing Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Criminal Law Forum. His research interests while focusing on international criminal and international humanitarian law also include topics such as the history of international law and freedom of expression.

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