International Prosecutors

Luc Reydams is Associate Professional Specialist in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and Associate Fellow of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies.Jan Wouters is Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam EU and Global Governance Professor of International Law and International Organizations Director at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies.Cedric Ryngaert is Assistant Professor of International Law at the Universities of Leuven and Utrecht and Senior Researcher at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies.

This monumental work is an unparalled and exhaustive study of the international prosecutorial function in a dozen international tribunals, including the postwar Nuremberg and Tokyo courts; the UN-created courts for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; the Special Court for Sierra Leone; the East Timor Tribunal; the Cambodia court; the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina; the Special Tribunal for Lebanon; and the ICC... International Prosecutors is a land-mark work. It provides a comprehensive and comparative examination of the prosecutorial functions in international criminal courts.

• Foreword ; 1. Introduction ; 2. The Politics of Establishing International Criminal Tribunals ; 3. Mandates ; 4. Resources ; 5. Structure and Management ; 6. Independence and Impartiality ; 7. Accountability and Ethics ; 8. Procedural Regimes ; 9. Defendant Selection ; 10. Investigations ; 11. Indictments ; 12. Arrest and Detention ; 13. Trial ; 14. Appeal ; 15. Completion ; 16. Conclusions