International Criminal Court: Challenges to Achieving Justice and Accountability in the 21st Century

The International Criminal Court brings together a wide variety of resources on the history, structure, and mandate of the ICC. It presents a general overview of court and offers a series of articles on the challenges facing the international tribunal.

Chapters include:

• History
• Structure
• Complementarity
• America and the ICC
• International Implementation and Objections
• Gender crimes
• Aggression
• Security Council and Darfur Referral
• Enforcement and the ICC today

The anthology concludes with an appendix containing an ICC timeline, a list of member states, and a glossary. 

Mark S. Ellis is executive director of The International Bar Association, the world’s foremost international organization of bar associations, law firms, and individual lawyers. He previously served as the executive director of the Central and East European Law Initiative.  

Richard J Goldstone served as a justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He is a board member of Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights, The International Center for Transitional Justice, and the Center for Economic and Social Rights, and is a director of the American Arbitration Association.