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The International Criminal Court: A Commentary on the Rome Statute. 2nd edition. By William A. Schabas . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xci, 1,589. ISBN 978-0-19-873977-7. US$330.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

Roy L. Sturgeon
Roy L. Sturgeon*
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Foreign, Comparative, & International Law Reference Librarian, Tulane University Law School, New Orleans, LAU.S.A.
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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , November 2017 , pp. 263 - 265
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References

1 For official information, see the Court's website, https://www.icc-cpi.int (accessed Aug. 8, 2017). Regarding recent criticisms, see Jessica Hatcher-Moore, “Is the World's Highest Court Fit for Purpose?,” Guardian, April 5, 2017, https://tinyurl.com/grdn4517 (accessed Aug. 8, 2017); Carsten Stahn, “How Fair are Criticisms of the ICC?,” OUP Blog, Nov. 23, 2015, https://tinyurl.com/oupb112315 (accessed Aug. 8, 2017); Kenneth Roth, “Africa Attacks the International Criminal Court,” New York Review of Books, Feb. 6, 2014, http://tinyurl.com/nyrb2614 (accessed Aug. 8, 2017).

2 Bassiouni, M. Cherif & Schabas, William A., eds., The Legislative History of the International Criminal Court, 2nd rev. & exp. ed., 2 vols. (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Nijhoff, 2016)Google Scholar.

3 Stahn, Carsten, ed., The Law and Practice of the International Criminal Court (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015)Google Scholar.

4 Schabas, William A., An Introduction to the International Criminal Court, 5th ed. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Yates, Pamela, dir., The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court (DVD: Skylight Pictures, 2009)Google Scholar; Stevens, Barry, dir., Prosecutor (DVD: Icarus Films, 2011)Google Scholar.

6 For the latest edition, see Triffterer, Otto & Ambos, Kai, eds., The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: A Commentary, 3rd ed. (München, Germany: C.H. Beck, 2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 Cassese, Antonio et al. , eds., The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: A Commentary, 3 vols. (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2002)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8 For details, see his academic profile page, http://tinyurl.com/wasmul (accessed Aug. 8, 2017); Tovah Lazaroff, “Schabas to Quit UNHRC Gaza Probe over Israeli Bias Claims,” Jerusalem Post, Feb. 3, 2015, http://tinyurl.com/jp2315 (accessed Aug. 8, 2017).

9 For more on language issues, see book under review, pp. 1537–39.

10 For Competition details, see http://iccmoot.com (accessed Aug. 8, 2017).