Table of Contents:
  • Protection of human rights by means of criminal law : on the relationship between criminal law and politics / Jörg Arnold
  • Global constitutional struggles : human rights between colère publique and colère politique / Andreas Fischer-Lescano
  • The future of universal jurisdiction / Peter Weiss
  • On the aims and actual consequences of international prosecution of human rights crimes / Peer Stolle and Tobias Singelnstein
  • Prosecuting international crimes at the national and international level : between justice and realpolitik / Kai Ambos
  • Addressing the relationship between state immunity and jus cogens norms : a comparative assessment / Lorna McGregor
  • Universal jurisdiction : developing and implementing an effective global strategy / Christopher Keith Hall
  • German international criminal law in practice : from Leipzig to Karlsruhe / Wolfgang Kaleck
  • The Pinochet effect and the Spanish contribution to universal jurisdiction / Naomi Roht-Arriaza
  • Implementing the principle of universal jurisdiction in France / Jeanne Sulzer
  • The political funeral procession for the Belgian UJ statute / Michael Verhaeghe
  • The approach of the United Kingdom to crimes under international law : the application of extraterritorial jurisdiction / Carla Ferstman
  • Coming to terms with genocide in Rwanda : the role of international and national justice / Dieter Magsam
  • Military necessity, torture, and the criminality of lawyers / Scott Horton
  • The prohibition of torture : absolute means absolute / Nigel S. Rodley
  • Litigating Guantánamo / Michael Ratner
  • Universality, complementarity, and the duty to prosecute crimes under international law in Germany / Florian Jessberger.