Africa and the International Criminal Court

Gerhard Werle is a Professor of Law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Director of the South African-German Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice and an Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape. Lovell Fernandez is a Professor of Law at the University of the Western Cape and Director of the South African-German Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice. Moritz Vormbaum is a Senior Researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as well as Coordinator and Lecturer at the South African-German Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice.

• Introduction – Africa and the International Criminal Court.- Africa and the International Criminal Court – Then and Now.- Africa and the International Criminal Court – A Judge’s Perspective.- International Criminal Justice in Africa: Specific Procedural Aspects of the First Trial Judgment of the International Criminal Court.- Africa and the International Criminal Court – A Prosecutor’s Perspective.- The Implementation of the Rome Statute in Africa.- Domestic Prosecution of International Crimes: The Case of Rwanda.- The Extraordinary African Chambers in the Courts of Senegal – The Case of Hissène Habré.- The Nigerian ‘Jos-Crisis’ from the Perspective of International Criminal Law.- ‘On Behalf of Africa’: Towards the Regionalization of Universal Jurisdiction? Between Political Justice and Judicial Politics: Charting a Way Forward for the African Union and the International Criminal Court.- Africa, the United Nations Security Council and the International Criminal Court: The Question of Deferrals.- A Strained Relationship: Reflections on the African Union’s Stand against the International Criminal Court from the Kenyan Experience.