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The Elgar Companion to the International Criminal Court. Edited by Margaret M. deGuzman & Valerie Oosterveld. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2020. 421 + xiv pages.

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The Elgar Companion to the International Criminal Court. Edited by Margaret M. deGuzman & Valerie Oosterveld. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2020. 421 + xiv pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2021

GILLIAN MACNEIL*
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Assistant Professor, Robson Hall, University of Manitoba
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© The Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international 2021

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References

1 Sir Winston Churchill, “First Wartime Broadcast,” BBC Radio (1 October 1939).

2 Margaret, M deGuzman & Valerie, Oosterveld, eds, The Elgar Companion to the International Criminal Court (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2020) at xGoogle Scholar.

3 17 July 1998, 2187 UNTS 3, Can TS 2002 No 13 (entered into force 1 July 2002) [Rome Statute].

4 Frédéric Mégret, “The Rome Conference: Institutional Design and the Constraints of Diplomacy” in deGuzman & Oosterveld, supra note 2, 20 at 21.

5 William A Schabas, “The Dynamics of the Rome Conference” in deGuzman & Oosterveld, supra note 2, 3 at 19.

6 Mégret, supra note 4 at 23–38.

7 Schabas, supra note 5 at 10–11.

8 Mégret, supra note 4 at 25.

9 Ibid at 22.

10 Schabas, supra note 5 at 19.

11 Ibid at 10–11. See also Mégret, supra note 4 at 34–35, 41.

12 Rod Rastan, “Can the ICC Function Without State Compliance?” in deGuzman & Oosterveld, supra note 2, 147 at 148.

13 Schabas, supra note 5 at 11.

14 Jennifer Trahan, “The Assembly of States Parties” in deGuzman & Oosterveld, supra note 2, 231 at 231.

15 Ibid at 234–36.

16 Ibid at 234. See also Sara Wharton, “Judges, the Registry, and Defence Counsel” in deGuzman & Oosterveld, supra note 2, 204 at 223.

17 Trahan, supra note 14 at 234–36.

18 Ibid at 245–48.

19 Ibid at 250–54.

20 Mégret, supra note 4 at 27.

21 Jonathan O’Donohue, “Human Rights Compliance” in deGuzman & Oosterveld, supra note 2, 334.

22 Wharton, supra note 16 at 207–15.

23 Saira Mohamed, “Contestation and Inevitability in the Crimes of the International Criminal Court” in deGuzman & Oosterveld, supra note 2, 49 at 50, 57–61.

24 Rosemary Grey & Louise Chappell, “Re-writing Sex and Gender in International Criminal Law” in deGuzman & Oosterveld, supra note 2, 363 at 363–69.

25 Ibid at 372.

26 Leila Nadya Sadat, “Heads of State and Other Government Officials before the International Criminal Court: The Uneasy Revolution Continues” in deGuzman & Oosterveld, supra note 2, 96; Sadat uses the term “rewrite” at 98.

27 Ibid at 101, 104–16.

28 Asad G Kiyani, “Re-narrating Selectivity” in deGuzman & Oosterveld, supra note 2, 307 at 317 makes both these points.

29 Ibid at 317.

30 Rebecca J Hamilton, “Africa, the Court, and the Council” in deGuzman & Oosterveld, supra note 2, 261.

31 Ibid at 277.

32 Ibid at 264–76.

33 Kiyani, supra note 28 at 311, 324.

34 Rastan, supra note 12 at 151.

35 Ibid at 152–55.

36 Ibid at 155.

37 Ibid at 173.

38 Mark Kersten, “Taking the Opportunity: Prosecutorial Opportunism and the International Criminal Court” in deGuzman & Oosterveld, supra note 2, 181 at 188.

39 Ibid at 182–88.

40 Alexander KA Greenawalt, “Admissibility as a Theory of International Criminal Law” deGuzman & Oosterveld, supra note 2, 62 at 63.

41 Hamilton, supra note 30 at 265.

42 Greenawalt, supra note 40 at 65.

43 Ibid.

44 Ibid at 70–74.

45 Yvonne M Dutton, “Peace and Justice” in deGuzman & Oosterveld, supra note 2, 280 at 289–306.

46 Wharton, supra note 16 at 212–15, 220–30. See also O’Donohue, supra note 21 at 343–61 on the difficulties of implementing the rights of defendants and victims.

47 Wharton, supra note 16 at 226-27 (problems include insufficient funding, insufficient institutional support, issues with disclosure, concerns about the limits on interlocutory appeals, inconsistency in decisions, and lack of equality of arms).

48 Mark A Drumbl, “Penalties and Punishment” in deGuzman & Oosterveld, supra note 2, 128 at 132–43.

49 Grey & Chappell, supra note 24 at 374.

50 Ibid at 384.