Kirsten Ainley is Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University and the Principal Investigator of the Hybrid Justice project. Her research focuses on international policy and practice in military, legal, and development-focused interventions, and the impacts of these interventions, with an increasing focus on their gendered impacts. She has published on international criminal law, transitional justice, and the International Criminal Court, and her current work traces funding streams for international courts and transitional justice programmes. She co-authored, with Mark Kersten, the Dakar Guidelines on the Establishment of Hybrid Courts, which develop good practice on setting up hybrid tribunals.Mark Kersten is Assistant Professor in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, and a Senior Consultant at the Wayamo Foundation in Berlin, Germany. Mark is the founder of the blog Justice in Conflict and author of the book, published by Oxford University Press, by the same name. His research on the pursuit of justice and accountability for mass atrocities, peace processes and conflict resolution has appeared in numerous academic fora as well as media publications such as Al Jazeera, BBC, Foreign Policy, Toronto Star, and The Washington Post.

With this excellent, interesting and highly readable book Kersten and Ainley show they have their fingers on the pulse of international criminal justice. Let us hope they will feel a strong heartbeat.

• 1: Kirsten Ainley and Mark Kersten: Introduction FIELDS 2: Dennis Schmidt: In whose name? Mapping the constitutional legitimacy of hybrid international criminal courts 3: Elena Baylis: Regionalized Hybrid Courts 4: Shastry Njeru and Tyanai Masiya: Securing Resilient Peace: From Hybridity to Polyvalence 5: Shannon Torrens: Dissent in International Criminal Justice and the Creation and Re-emergence of the Hybrid Court 6: Patryk Labuda: Institutional Design and Complementarity: Regulating Relations between Hybrid Tribunals and other Judicial and Non-Judicial Institutions PRACTICE 7: Sareta Ashraph: Valuing the Defence: A Comparative Analysis of the Hybrid Tribunals' Stumbling Efforts Towards Giving Meaning to Defence Rights 8: Philipp Ambach: Victim participation in hybrid international(ised) tribunals - part of the modern acquis or just a feature 'nice to have'? 9: Erica Bussey: From the Special Criminal Court in CAR to the Kosovo Specialist Chambers: Impact of the nationality of judges/staff on the legitimacy of recent hybrid tribunals 10: Philipa Greer: Emerging Enforcement Practices of Hybrid Courts: Lessons Learned for Proposed Hybrid Mechanisms in Post-Conflict States Innovation 11: Kerstin Bree Carlson: A New African Pluralism in International Criminal Law: Sovereign Immunity and the Trial of Hissène Habré 12: Elise Keppler: Innovations in hybrid justice: comparative opportunities and challenges of the Central African Republic's Special Criminal Court and the proposed Hybrid Court for South Sudan 13: Rosemary Grey: 'Forced marriage': A positive development for international criminal law? 14: Camilo Sanchez: Hybrid investigatory Mechanisms and other Hybrid Justice Initiatives 15: Sarah Williams: Hybrid tribunals as a mechanism for reparative justice Impact 16: Olga Kavran: Hybrid justice and the promise and expectations of outreach 17: Ezequiel Jiminez: The Premise of Capacity Building in the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and the Bosnian War Crimes Chamber 18: Alice Dieci: Beyond 'fragmentation': the potential of hybrid courts to restore local trust in international justice through prosecution of economic, social and cultural rights violations 19: Conclusion

Kirsten Ainley is Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University and the Principal Investigator of the Hybrid Justice project. Her research focuses on international policy and practice in military, legal, and development-focused interventions, and the impacts of these interventions, with an increasing focus on their gendered impacts. She has published on international criminal law, transitional justice, and the International Criminal Court, and her current work traces funding streams for international courts and transitional justice programmes. She co-authored, with Mark Kersten, the Dakar Guidelines on the Establishment of Hybrid Courts, which develop good practice on setting up hybrid tribunals.Mark Kersten is Assistant Professor in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, and a Senior Consultant at the Wayamo Foundation in Berlin, Germany. Mark is the founder of the blog Justice in Conflict and author of the book, published by Oxford University Press, by the same name. His research on the pursuit of justice and accountability for mass atrocities, peace processes and conflict resolution has appeared in numerous academic fora as well as media publications such as Al Jazeera, BBC, Foreign Policy, Toronto Star, and The Washington Post.

With this excellent, interesting and highly readable book Kersten and Ainley show they have their fingers on the pulse of international criminal justice. Let us hope they will feel a strong heartbeat.

• 1: Kirsten Ainley and Mark Kersten: Introduction FIELDS 2: Dennis Schmidt: In whose name? Mapping the constitutional legitimacy of hybrid international criminal courts 3: Elena Baylis: Regionalized Hybrid Courts 4: Shastry Njeru and Tyanai Masiya: Securing Resilient Peace: From Hybridity to Polyvalence 5: Shannon Torrens: Dissent in International Criminal Justice and the Creation and Re-emergence of the Hybrid Court 6: Patryk Labuda: Institutional Design and Complementarity: Regulating Relations between Hybrid Tribunals and other Judicial and Non-Judicial Institutions PRACTICE 7: Sareta Ashraph: Valuing the Defence: A Comparative Analysis of the Hybrid Tribunals' Stumbling Efforts Towards Giving Meaning to Defence Rights 8: Philipp Ambach: Victim participation in hybrid international(ised) tribunals - part of the modern acquis or just a feature 'nice to have'? 9: Erica Bussey: From the Special Criminal Court in CAR to the Kosovo Specialist Chambers: Impact of the nationality of judges/staff on the legitimacy of recent hybrid tribunals 10: Philipa Greer: Emerging Enforcement Practices of Hybrid Courts: Lessons Learned for Proposed Hybrid Mechanisms in Post-Conflict States Innovation 11: Kerstin Bree Carlson: A New African Pluralism in International Criminal Law: Sovereign Immunity and the Trial of Hissène Habré 12: Elise Keppler: Innovations in hybrid justice: comparative opportunities and challenges of the Central African Republic's Special Criminal Court and the proposed Hybrid Court for South Sudan 13: Rosemary Grey: 'Forced marriage': A positive development for international criminal law? 14: Camilo Sanchez: Hybrid investigatory Mechanisms and other Hybrid Justice Initiatives 15: Sarah Williams: Hybrid tribunals as a mechanism for reparative justice Impact 16: Olga Kavran: Hybrid justice and the promise and expectations of outreach 17: Ezequiel Jiminez: The Premise of Capacity Building in the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and the Bosnian War Crimes Chamber 18: Alice Dieci: Beyond 'fragmentation': the potential of hybrid courts to restore local trust in international justice through prosecution of economic, social and cultural rights violations 19: Conclusion

Kirsten Ainley is Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University and the Principal Investigator of the Hybrid Justice project. Her research focuses on international policy and practice in military, legal, and development-focused interventions, and the impacts of these interventions, with an increasing focus on their gendered impacts. She has published on international criminal law, transitional justice, and the International Criminal Court, and her current work traces funding streams for international courts and transitional justice programmes. She co-authored, with Mark Kersten, the Dakar Guidelines on the Establishment of Hybrid Courts, which develop good practice on setting up hybrid tribunals.Mark Kersten is Assistant Professor in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, and a Senior Consultant at the Wayamo Foundation in Berlin, Germany. Mark is the founder of the blog Justice in Conflict and author of the book, published by Oxford University Press, by the same name. His research on the pursuit of justice and accountability for mass atrocities, peace processes and conflict resolution has appeared in numerous academic fora as well as media publications such as Al Jazeera, BBC, Foreign Policy, Toronto Star, and The Washington Post.

With this excellent, interesting and highly readable book Kersten and Ainley show they have their fingers on the pulse of international criminal justice. Let us hope they will feel a strong heartbeat.

• 1: Kirsten Ainley and Mark Kersten: Introduction FIELDS 2: Dennis Schmidt: In whose name? Mapping the constitutional legitimacy of hybrid international criminal courts 3: Elena Baylis: Regionalized Hybrid Courts 4: Shastry Njeru and Tyanai Masiya: Securing Resilient Peace: From Hybridity to Polyvalence 5: Shannon Torrens: Dissent in International Criminal Justice and the Creation and Re-emergence of the Hybrid Court 6: Patryk Labuda: Institutional Design and Complementarity: Regulating Relations between Hybrid Tribunals and other Judicial and Non-Judicial Institutions PRACTICE 7: Sareta Ashraph: Valuing the Defence: A Comparative Analysis of the Hybrid Tribunals' Stumbling Efforts Towards Giving Meaning to Defence Rights 8: Philipp Ambach: Victim participation in hybrid international(ised) tribunals - part of the modern acquis or just a feature 'nice to have'? 9: Erica Bussey: From the Special Criminal Court in CAR to the Kosovo Specialist Chambers: Impact of the nationality of judges/staff on the legitimacy of recent hybrid tribunals 10: Philipa Greer: Emerging Enforcement Practices of Hybrid Courts: Lessons Learned for Proposed Hybrid Mechanisms in Post-Conflict States Innovation 11: Kerstin Bree Carlson: A New African Pluralism in International Criminal Law: Sovereign Immunity and the Trial of Hissène Habré 12: Elise Keppler: Innovations in hybrid justice: comparative opportunities and challenges of the Central African Republic's Special Criminal Court and the proposed Hybrid Court for South Sudan 13: Rosemary Grey: 'Forced marriage': A positive development for international criminal law? 14: Camilo Sanchez: Hybrid investigatory Mechanisms and other Hybrid Justice Initiatives 15: Sarah Williams: Hybrid tribunals as a mechanism for reparative justice Impact 16: Olga Kavran: Hybrid justice and the promise and expectations of outreach 17: Ezequiel Jiminez: The Premise of Capacity Building in the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and the Bosnian War Crimes Chamber 18: Alice Dieci: Beyond 'fragmentation': the potential of hybrid courts to restore local trust in international justice through prosecution of economic, social and cultural rights violations 19: Conclusion