Treatise on International Criminal Law Second Edition: Volume III: International Criminal Procedure

Since the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998, international criminal law has rapidly grown in importance. This fully updated new edition of the third volume of a Treatise on International Criminal Law offers a comprehensive analysis of the procedures and implementation of international law by international criminal tribunals and the International Criminal Court.

Through analysis of the framework of international criminal procedure, this volume considers each stage in the process of proceedings before the ICC, including the role of legal participants, the scope of jurisdiction, and the enforcement of sentences. This new edition has been expanded to include updated case law and relevant scholarly literature. Among others, it contains new (sub)sections on non-judicial investigative mechanisms, special forms of digital evidence, the ’submission approach’ to material and information, trial management, and political elements within the ’interests of justice’.

The full three-volume treatise addresses the entirety of international criminal law, re-stating and re-examining the fundamental principles upon which it rests, the manner it is enacted, and the key issues that are shaping its future. It is essential reading for practitioners, scholars, and students of international criminal law alike.

Kai Ambos, Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Law, International Criminal Law and Public International Law, Georg-August-University Göttingen

Kai Ambos holds the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Law, International Criminal Law and Public International Law at the Georg-August-University (GAU) Göttingen, Germany. He served as a Judge at the Provincial Court (Landgericht) of Lower Saxony in Göttingen from March 2006 to February 2017 (from January 2015 to September 2015 delegated to the Appeals Court (Oberlandesgericht) Braunschweig); and was appointed Judge at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC), The Hague, in February 2017. In December 2017 he was appointed as Advisor (Amicus Curiae) to the Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace. He is Director of the ＂Centro de Estudios de Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal Latinoamericano＂ (CEDPAL) of GAU, life member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge, and external member of the Law Faculty of the University of Lisbon.