The Crime of Aggression 2 Volume Hardback Set: A Commentary

The 2010 Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute empowered the International Criminal Court to prosecute the 'supreme crime' under international law: the crime of aggression. This landmark commentary provides the first analysis of the history, theory, legal interpretation and future of the crime of aggression. As well as explaining the positions of the main actors in the negotiations, the authoritative team of leading scholars and practitioners set out exactly how countries have themselves criminalized illegal war-making in domestic law and practice. In light of the anticipated activation of the Court's jurisdiction over this crime in 2017, this work offers, over two volumes, a comprehensive legal analysis of how to understand the material and mental elements of the crime of aggression as defined at Kampala. Alongside The Travaux Préparatoires of the Crime of Aggression (Cambridge, 2011), this commentary provides the definitive resource for anyone concerned with the illegal use of force.

Claus Kreß is Professor of Criminal Law and Public International Law and Director of the Institute of International Peace and Security Law at the University of Cologne. Previously, he practiced in the German Federal Ministry of Justice on matters of criminal law and international law, and he has been a member of Germany's delegations in the negotiations regarding the International Criminal Court since 1998. In 2014, he was winner of the M. C. Bassiouni Justice Award.

Stefan Barriga served as the principal legal advisor to the chief negotiators on the crime of aggression from 2003 to 2010, and is widely acknowledged as the main expert in charge of the drafting of the Working Group's proposals, papers and reports during that period. He is now the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the United Nations in New York.