The Diversification and Fragmentation of International Criminal Law

This volume inaugurates a new series titled "Leiden Studies on the Frontiers of International Law," which aims to "re-map or re-think" some of the field's conceptual boundaries--to broach constrictive borders in the interests of creative new thought. The present volume is the result of a research project carried out at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (Leiden University, The Netherlands). The introduction discusses institutional, substantive, and procedural fragmentation. Following are 23 chapters on legal pluralism, the judicial dialogue on the question of immunity, state responsibility and individual criminal responsibility for genocide, human rights cases in sub-regional African courts, limits of information -sharing between the International Criminal Court and truth commissions, Chinese humanitarian law and international humanitarian law, the Rome Statute, and the rights of victims, among other topics. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Larissa van den Herik is a Professor of Public International Law and Editor in Chief of the Leiden Journal of International Law. She has previously worked at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she defended her PhD thesis on The Contribution of the Rwanda Tribunal to the Development of International Law (Martinus Nijhoff) in 2005. She was awarded the Bulthuis Van Oosternieland Prize for this academic work. She is the author of several articles and annotations in the field of public international law, international criminal law and the law on peace and security, as well as co-editor of collections of essays in the field of international criminal law. She coordinates the Marie Curie Research Course and Top Summer School on International Criminal Law (together with Dr. Carsten Stahn).Carsten Stahn is Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice and Programme Director of the Grotius Centre for International Studies. He has previously worked as Legal Officer in Chambers of the International Criminal Court (2003-2007) and as Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (2000-2003). He obtained his PhD degree (summa cum laude) from Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. He holds LL.M. degrees from New York University and Cologne/Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne). He is author of The Law and Practice of International Territorial Administration: Versailles to Iraq and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2008/2010) which received the Ciardi Prize 2009 of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War. He has published numerous articles on international criminal law and transitional justice, and edited several collections of essays in the field. He is Senior ICC editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law, Executive Editor of the Criminal Law Forum and Correspondent of the Netherlands International Law Review. His work has been cited in the jurisprudence of the ICC, the ICJ and the European Court of Human Rights.