Commissions of Inquiry

Christian Henderson is Professor of International Law at the University of Sussex.

Section 1: The Diversity of Contemporary Commissions of Inquiry
1. A Functional Typology of Commissions of Inquiry
Patrick Butchard and Christian Henderson
2. Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony: The Politics of Establishing United Nations Commissions of Inquiry
Michelle Farrell and Ben Murphy
3. Lessons From Two Regional Missions: Fact-finding in Georgia and South Sudan
Rob Grace
4. Domestic Commissions of Inquiry and International Law: The Importance of Normative Authority
Stephen Samuel and James A Green

Section 2: Commissions of Inquiry and International Courts and Tribunals
5. Commissions of Inquiry and Traditional Mechanisms of Dispute Settlement
Alexander Orakhelashvili
6. Commissions of Inquiry: Courting International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
Christine Schwöbel-Patel
7. The Impact of International Commissions of Inquiry on the Proceedings before the International Criminal Court
Triestino Mariniello

Section 3: Issues in the Substantive Engagement of Commissions of Inquiries with International Law
8. The Interplay between International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law in the Practice of Commissions of Inquiry
Marco Odello
9. Laying the Foundations: Commissions of Inquiry and the Development of International Law
Shane Darcy
10. Quo Vadis? Commissions of Inquiry and their Implications for the Coherence of International Law
Russell Buchan

Section 4: Procedural Questions and Working Methods
11. Selectivity and Choices in Human Rights Fact-finding: Reconciling Subjectivity with Objectivity?
Théo Boutruche
12. Commissions of Inquiry and Procedural Fairness
Alison Bisset
13. A Visible College: The Community of Fact-finding Practice
Corinne Heaven