OUVRAGE : B. Krzan (ed.), Prosecuting International Crimes: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Bartłomiej KRZAN

The volume edited by Bartłomiej Krzan offers different perspectives on the prosecution of international crimes. The analyses contained therein reflect different backgrounds, mainly legal, combining several disciplines, and making it a multidisciplinary study.

The main (but definitely not the exclusive) point of reference is that of international law. In addition, other perspectives, those of legal history or sociology of law and obviously the one of criminal law (both substantive and procedural) provide useful alternatives or in most occasions complementary approaches to the examination of the prosecution of international crimes.

The book combines different views, backgrounds and underlying assumptions. But gathered together they, it is to be hoped, shed some additional, useful light that might be helpful for identifying new dimensions of the reaction (judicial or other) towards international crimes.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Part I. INDIVIDUAL CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW

1. Joachim Wolf, Individual Responsibility and Collective State Responsibility for International Crimes: Separate or Complementary Concepts under International Law?
2. Władysław Czapliński, Customary International Law as a Basis of an Individual Criminal, Responsibility
3. Uerpmann-Wittzack Robert, Immunities before International Criminal Courts
4. Krzysztof Masło, The Attribution of International Criminal Responsibility for Serious Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law to Senior Leaders

Part II. SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES

5. Patrycja Grzebyk, Crimes against Civilians during Armed Conflicts
6. Regina Valutytė, Neringa Mickevičiūtė, Remedying Torturous Effects of the Use of Chemical Weapons under International Law

Part III. INSTITUTIONAL AND PROCEDURAL ISSUES

7. Witold Jakimko, The Judicial Independence of Judges within International Criminal Courts
8. Bartłomiej Krzan, Human Rights and International Criminal Law
9. Karolina Kremens, The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court – Inquistorial or Adversarial?
10. Wojciech Jasiński, Admissibility of Illegally Obtained Evidence in Proceedings before International Criminal Courts

Part IV. RELEVANCE OF DOMESTIC APPROACHES 

11. David Kohout, Implementing the Nuremberg Principles in National Trials with Nazi Criminals: Hesitation versus Enthusiasm towards Meeting the Standards of Complementarity in the Modern International Criminal Law
12. Karolina Wierczyńska, Sufficient Domestic Proceedings – The Standard of National Criminal Proceedings before the icc in Context of Art. 17 of the Rome Statute
13. Loammi Wolf, The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the Context of Xenophobia, Cycles of Violence, and Epigenetic Trauma
14. Justinas Žilinskas, Prosecuting International Crimes in Lithuania: When Wounds Shape the Law

Index

Bartłomiej KRZAN (ed.), Prosecuting International Crimes: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Leiden, Brill/Nijhoff, 2016 (342 pp.)


Bartłomiej Krzan, Ph.D. (2008), Habilitation (2014) is associate professor of international and EU law at the University of Wrocław and an author of numerous publications on international responsibility, law of international organizations, and international criminal law.