The Rome Statute of the ICC at Its Twentieth Anniversary

Pavel Šturma, DrSc. (1963), Charles University, Faculty of Law, in Prague, is Professor of Public International Law at that university. He is also member of the UN International Law Commission, and published monographs and many articles in the field of international law, including International Criminal Court and Prosecution of Crimes under International Law (Charles University Press, 2002).

On the Authors

Introduction



Part 1: A Way to the Rome Statute and beyond

1 Ad Hoc Tribunals and Their Significance for Developing the Activities of theicc

 Anna Richterová

2 The System of Operation of International Criminal Justice Fora, in Particular of the International Criminal Court – Will the Future be Governed by Politics, Orders or Law?

 Tamás Lattmann

3 The Rome Statute of the icc and the Recent Works of the International Law Commission

 Pavel Šturma



Part 2: Contribution of the icc to the Definition and Interpretation of International Crimes

4 On the Activation of icc Jurisdiction over the Crime of Aggression

 Claus Kreß

5 International Criminal Court, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity

 Josef Mrázek

6 Contribution of the International Criminal Court to the Prosecution of Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes: Between Promise and Practice

 Kateřina Uhlířová

7 Mental Element (mens rea) of the Crime of Aggression and Related Issues

 Milan Lipovský



Part 3: Preliminary Examination and Investigation

8 Making the Wrong Enemies? The icc Prosecutor’s Dilemma When Targeting Powerful States at the Preliminary Examination Stage

 Iryna Marchuk and Aloka Wanigasuriya

9 The International Criminal Court and Syria: The Absence of Jurisdiction and the Pressing Need for International Criminal Justice

 Jan Lhotský

10 The Principle of Complementarity in Practice

 Kristýna Urbanová

11 Al-Bashir and the icc – Tag, Hide-and-Seek … or Rather Blind Man’s Bluff?

 Ondřej Svaček



Part 4: Trials

12 All Roads Lead to Rome – Lifting the Veil on the icc’s Procedural Pluriformity

 Simon De Smet

13 Experience from the Special Tribunal for Lebanon

 Ivana Hrdličková



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