Treatise on International Criminal Law

Kai Ambos holds the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Law, International Criminal Law and Public International Law at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany. Previously he worked, inter alia, at the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany and has been involved in the Criminal Justice Reform in Latin America and Eastern Europe since then. He served as a Judge at the Provincial Court (Landgericht) of Lower Saxony in Göttingen from 24 March 2006 to 7 February 2017 (from January 2015 to 30 September 2015 delegated to the Appeals Court (Oberlandesgericht) Braunschweig); with his appointment as Judge at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC), The Hague, on 7 February 2017 he took leave from this judicial position. On 6 December 2017 he was appointed as Advisor (Amicus Curiae) to the Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace.

• 1: International Criminal Justice Institutions: From the First Ad Hoc Tribunals and Their Precedents to the ICC and Beyond 2: Concept, Function, and Sources of International Criminal Law 3: Imputation and General Structure of Crime in International Criminal Law 4: Individual Criminal Responsibility 5: Omission, in Particular Command Responsibility 6: Attempt as a Special Form of Individual Criminal Responsibility 7: The Subjective Requirements of International Crimes 8: Grounds Excluding Responsibility ('Defences')