Pluralism in International Criminal Law

by van Sliedregt, Elies; Vasiliev, Sergey

• ISBN13: 9780198703198
• ISBN10: 0198703198
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-12-02
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Elies van Sliedregt, Professor of Criminal Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,Sergey Vasiliev, Postdoctoral Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Elies van Sliedregt is Professor of Criminal Law, Dean of the Faculty of Law, and Director of the Center for International Criminal Justice at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She previously worked as associate professor at Leiden University and as a lecturer at Utrecht University and held visiting fellowships in Cambridge, Oxford, Bologna, and at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Van Sliedregt was visiting professional with Chambers at the International Criminal Court (2010) and fellow-in-residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2011). She is a regular speaker at international conferences and has published extensively in the field of international and European criminal law.

Sergey Vasiliev is Postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; formerly research fellow at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam; member of International Expert Framework on International Criminal Procedure. He is the author and editor of several publications in international and comparative criminal law.

Table of Contents

PART I. PLURALISM: CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES
1. Introduction, E. van Sliedregt and S. Vasiliev
2. Legal Pluralism: A Philosophical Perspective, J. Stewart and A. Kiyani
3. Legal Transplants or Legal Patchworking? The Creation of International Criminal Law as a Pluralistic Body of Law, Cassandra Steer
4. The Plural Pluralisms of International Criminal Procedure: In Search of a Normative Identity, S. Vasiliev
PART II. HORIZONTAL PLURALISM
5. Organizational Criminality, J.D. Ohlin
6. Modes of Liability: Pluralism in Theory, Uniformity in Legal Practice?, M. Cupido
7. Evidentiary Practices in the International Criminal Tribunals: A Comparative Approach, J.D. Jackson
8. Pluralism in Sentencing? Consistency of International Sentencing and International Sentencing Guidelines, B. Hola
9. Beyond International Criminal Law: The Curious Criminality of Mass Atrocity, M. Drumbl
PART III. VERTICAL PLURALISM
10. Interpretation and Application of International Criminal Law in Dutch Courts, R. Kok
11. Rights-Pluralism and Fair Trial in International Criminal Proceedings, A. Zahar
12. Proving International Crimes: Sui Generis Evidence Law?, E. Fry
13. Evidentiary Challenges: Domestic and International Prosecutions Compared, W. Jordash
PART IV. FROM PLURALISM TO HARMONIZATION? LOOK TO THE FUTURE
14. Individual Criminal Responsibility in Article 25 ICC Statute, G. Werle and B. Burghardt
15. Collective Intentions and Individual Criminal Responsibility, J. Gadirov
16. Evidence in International Criminal Tribunals: The Need for a Harmonized Approach, P. Murphy and L. Baddour
17. Conclusion, E. van Sliedregt and S. Vasiliev