The Ashgate Research Companion to International Criminal Law : Critical Perspectives.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Cases -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I International Crimes and Modes of Liability -- Sisyphus Wept: Prosecuting Sexual Violence at the International Criminal Court -- Creating a Framework for the Prosecution of Environmental Crimes in International Criminal Law -- Alleged Aggression in Utopia: An International Criminal Law Examination Question for 2020 -- The Special Tribunal for Lebanon and Terrorism as an International Crime: Reflections on the Judicial Function -- Damned If You Don't: Liability for Omissions in International Criminal Law -- Joint Criminal Enterprise Liability: Result Orientated Justice -- Part II The International Criminal Process -- Rights in Reverse: A Critical Analysis of Fair Trial Rights under International Criminal Law -- Victims' Participation at the International Criminal Court: Benefit or Burden? -- A Shifting Scale of Power: Who is in Charge of the Charges at the International Criminal Court? -- Distinguishing Creativity from Activism: International Criminal Law and the 'Legitimacy' of Judicial Development of the Law -- Equality of Arms in International Criminal Law: Continuing Challenges -- Protecting the Rights of the Accused in International Criminal Proceedings: Lip Service or Affirmative Action? -- Reconciliation and Sentencing in the Practice of the ad hoc Tribunals -- Part III Complementarity and Sentencing: A Discussion -- A Sentence-Based Theory of Complementarity -- 'Sentencing Horror' or 'Sentencing Heuristic'? A Reply to Heller's 'Sentence-Based' Theory of Complementarity -- Three Theories of Complementarity: Charge, Sentence or Process? A Comment on Kevin Heller's Sentence-Based Theory of Complementarity -- Part IV International Criminal Justice in Context -- The Short Arm of International Criminal Law.

Palestine and the Politics of International Criminal Justice -- Lions and Tigers and Deterrence, Oh My: Evaluating Expectations of International Criminal Justice -- Hybrid Courts in Retrospect: Of Lost Legacies and Modest Futures -- 'Political Trials'? The UN Security Council and the Development of International Criminal Law -- Expanding the Focus of the 'African Criminal Court' -- The Future of International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice -- Index.

This unique Research Companion takes a critical approach to a wide variety of theoretical, practical, legal and policy issues surrounding and underpinning the operation of international criminal law as applied by international criminal tribunals. The authors raise issues which are likely to provide the most significant challenges and most promising opportunities for the continuing development of this body of law.

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