"Table of cases": pages xxv-lii.

"Table of legislation": pages liii-lxiii.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: more than a court, less than a court, several courts in one? / Carsten Stahn -- The International Criminal Court (ICC) and double standards of international justice / Richard Dicker -- The ICC and the politics of peace and justice / Leslie Vinjamuri -- The relationship between the ICC and the United Nations Security Council / Deborah Ruiz Verduzco -- The ICC and the AU / Anton Du Plessis & Ottilia Anna Maunganidze -- How much money does the ICC need? / Stuart Ford -- The ICC and the ASP / Jonathan O'Donohue -- Jurisdiction / Rod Rastan -- Ad hoc declarations of acceptance of jurisdiction: the Palestinian situation under scrutiny / Mohamed M El Zeidy -- Self-referrals as an indication of the inability of states to cope with non-state actors / Harmen van der Wilt -- Admissibility challenges before the ICC: from quasi-primacy to qualified deference? / Carsten Stahn -- The ICC and its relationship to non-states parties / Robert Cryer -- The frog that wanted to be an ox: the ICCs approach to immunities / Dov Jacobs -- Putting complementarity in its place / Paul Seils -- Investigative management, strategies, and techniques of the ICCs OTP / Susana S�aCouto and Katherine Cleary Thompson -- The selection of situations and cases by the OTP of the ICC / Fabricio Guariglia and Emeric Rogier -- Selecting situations and cases / William Schabas -- Accountability of international prosecutors / Jenia Iontcheva Turner -- Article 21 and the hierarchy of sources of law before the ICC / Gilbert Bitti -- The Rome Statute and the attempted corseting of the interpretative judicial function: reflections on sources of law and interpretative technique / Joseph Powderly -- Perpetration and participation in Article 25(3) / Elies van Sliedregt -- Co-perpetration: German dogmatik or German invasion? / Jens David Ohlin -- Indirect perpetration / Thomas Weigend -- Forms of accessorial liability under Article 25(3)(b) and (c) / Hector Olasolo -- The ICC and common purpose: what contribution is required under Article 25(3)(d)? / Kai Ambos -- Command responsibility under Article 28 of the Rome Statute / Alejandro Kiss -- Rethinking the mental elements in the jurisprudence of the ICC / Mohamed Elewa Badar and Sara Porro -- The ICCs first encounter with the crime of genocide: the case against Al Bashir / Claus Kress -- Crimes against humanity: a better policy on policy / Darryl Robinson -- Charging war crimes: policy and prognosis from a military perspective / Michael A. Newton -- The characterization of armed conflict in the jurisprudence of the ICC / Anthony Cullen -- The crime of aggression / Roger S. Clark -- La Lutte continue: investigating and prosecuting sexual violence at the ICC / Niamh Hayes -- Cumulative charges and cumulative convictions / Carl-Friedrich Stuckenberg -- The international criminal standard of proof at the ICC -- Beyond Reasonable Doubt or Beyond Reason? / Simon De Smet -- Confirmation of charges / Ignaz Stegmiller -- Trial procedures : with a particular focus on the relationship between the proceedings of the pre-trial and trial chambers / H�akan Friman -- Proportionate sentencing at the ICC / Margaret M. deGuzman -- The role of the appeals chamber / Volker Nerlich -- A stick to hit the accused with: the legal recharacterization of facts under Regulation 55 / Kevin Jon Heller -- Disclosure challenges at the ICC / Alex Whiting -- Sitting on evidence: systematic failings in the ICC disclosure regime -- Time for reform / Karim A A Khan QC and Caroline Buisman -- The roads to freedom -- interim release in the practice of the ICC / Aiste Dumbryte -- Testifying behind bars -- detained ICC witnesses and human rights protection / Joris van Wijk and Marjolein Cupido -- External support and internal coordination -- the ICC and the protection of witnesses / Markus Eikel -- Victim participation revisited : -- what the ICC is learning about itself / Sergey Vasiliev -- The Rome Statutes regime of victim redress: challenges and prospects / Conor McCarthy -- The deterrent effect of the ICC on the Commission of International Crimes by government leaders / Nick Grono and Anna de Courcy Wheeler -- The ICC and capacity building at the national level / Olympia Bekou -- Completion, legacy, and complementarity at the ICC / Elizabeth Evenson and Alison Smith -- A look towards the future : the ICC and lessons learnt / Philipp Ambach.

The International Criminal Court has significantly grown in importance and impact over the decade of its existence. This book assesses its impact, providing a comprehensive overview of its practice. It shows how the court has contributed to major developments in international criminal law, and identifies the ways in which it is in need of reform.