Overview
- Written by academics/practitioners, providing a practical contribution to the development of ICL in and outside Africa
- Focuses on international criminal justice in Africa and aims to serve as an educational and capacity-building tool
- Discusses international criminal justice matters both in relation to the African region and the rest of the world
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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International Criminal Law: Looking Through the African Lens
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Front Matter
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International Criminal Law Beyond the African Region
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About this book
This book critically analyses diverse international criminal law (ICL) issues in light of recent developments in the international criminal justice system following the pursuit of accountability in Africa and around the world. It gives a scholarly analysis of issues pertaining to ICL and the pursuit of accountability in Africa by way of several topics including universal jurisdiction in Africa, Boko Haram in Nigeria, the legitimacy of the ICTR, the law of genocide committed against the Herero and Nama peoples, the African perspective on international co-operation in criminal matters, the Malabo Protocol, and whether an African Regional Court is a viable alternative to the ICC.
Further discussed are other aspects of ICL, such as prosecuting sexual and gender-based crimes at the ICC, sexual and gender-based crimes perpetrated against men, guilty pleas within ICL and slavery within international criminal justice. With this, the book also refers to the jurisprudence of several international courts and tribunals including the ICTR, the ICTY, the SCSL, the ICC, the ECCC, the KSC, and the STL. This timely contributed volume updates international criminal law experts, practitioners, academics, human rights activists and other stakeholders on contemporary developments in ICL and provides recommendations that address accountability for mass atrocity crimes and ideas for strategic ICL litigation at the national, international, regional and sub-regional levels. It will prompt constructive exchanges on what can be improved in prosecuting mass atrocity crimes around the world.Takeh B.K. Sendze is an Advocate and Legal Officer with the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in Arusha, Tanzania.
Adesola Adeboyejo is a Trial Lawyer at the International Criminal Court.
Sir Howard Morrison QC is a former International Judge and an Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers in London, United Kingdom.
Sophia Ugwu is a Solicitor and Advocate who founded the Centre for African Justice, Peace and Human Rights in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sophia Ugwu is a Solicitor and Advocate who founded the Centre for African Justice Peace and Human Rights in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Sir Howard Morrison QC is a former International Judge and an Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers in London, United Kingdom.
Adesola Adeboyejo is a Trial Lawyer at the International Criminal Court.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contemporary International Criminal Law Issues
Book Subtitle: Contributions in Pursuit of Accountability for Africa and the World
Editors: Takeh B. K. Sendze, Adesola Adeboyejo, Howard Morrison, Sophia Ugwu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-555-3
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press The Hague
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: T.M.C. Asser Press and the authors 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-554-6Published: 29 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-557-7Published: 30 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6265-555-3Published: 28 March 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 441
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Criminal Law , International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Human Rights, Public International Law