Principles of International Criminal Law

Part One: Foundations; 1 Historical Evolution of International Criminal Law; 2 Concepts, Tasks, and Legitimacy; 3 International Criminal Law and the International Legal Order; 4 Sources and Interpretation; 5 Universal Jurisdiction, the Duty to Prosecute, Transitional Justice; 6 Enforcement; 7 Domestic Implementation; Part Two: General Principles; 8 Towards a General Theory of Crimes Under International Law; 9 Material Elements; 10 Mental Element; 11 Individual Criminal Responsibility; 12 Superior Responsibility; 13 Grounds for Excluding Criminal Responsibility; 14 Inchoate Crimes; 15 Omissions; 16 Official Capacity and Immunity; 17 Multiplicity of Offenses; 18 Requirements for Prosecution; Part Three: Genocide; 19 Introduction; 20 Material Elements; 21 Mental Element; 22 Incitement to Commit Genocide; 23 Multiplicity of Offenses; Part Four: Crimes Against Humanity; 24 Introduction; 25 Contextual Element (Attack on a Civilian Population); 26 Individual Acts; 27 Multiplicity of Offenses; Part Five: War Crimes; 28 Introduction; 29 Overall Requirements; 30 War Crimes Against Persons; 31 War Crimes Against Property and Other Rights; 32 Employing Prohibited Methods of Warfare; 33 Use of Prohibited Means of Warfare; 34 War Crimes Against Humanitarian Operations; 35 Multiplicity of Offenses; Part Six: The Crime of Aggression; 36 The Prohibition of Aggression Under International Law; 37 Criminal Responsibility Under Customary International Law (War of Aggression); 38 The Crime of Aggression in the ICC Statute Prospects

Gerhard Werle is Professor of International Criminal Law at Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin. He has been a visiting professor at various universities worldwide, including Columbia Law School, New York; Kansai University, Osaka; University of Sydney; University of Technology, Sydney; University of Cape Town; and University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, where he is Director of the South African-German Centre for Development Research and Criminal Justice. Professor Werle was a member of the Working Group on the Introduction of a Code of Crimes Against International Law established by the German Federal Ministry of Justice, and is a member of the Expert Committee of the German Red Cross on International Humanitarian Law. His works on international criminal law, transitional justice, and modern legal history have been published widely in many languages.; Florian Jessberger is Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Hamburg, where he serves as the Director of the Institute of Criminal