An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure

Building on the success of previous editions (Cryer et al.), this popular textbook is now expanded and updated in a 5th edition featuring two new co-authors, Elies van Sliedregt and Valerie Oosterveld. A market leader and one of the most globally trusted textbooks on international criminal law, it is known for its accessible and engaging tone and for an even-handed approach that is both critical and constructive. Comprehensively updated and rewritten, this new edition introduces readers to the main concepts of international criminal law, as well as the domestic and international institutions that enforce it, and addresses the latest challenges and controversies surrounding the International Criminal Court. Written by a team of international criminal lawyers who have extensive academic and practical experience in the field, the book engages with critical questions, political and moral challenges, and alternatives to international justice. It contains helpful references to other literature, making it a valuable research resource.

Darryl Robinson is a professor at Queen's University Faculty of Law. As a Legal Officer at Foreign Affairs Canada (1997–2004), he advised on international criminal law and helped negotiate the Statute of the International Criminal Court. He was also an adviser at the International Criminal Court (2004–6). He received the Antonio Cassese Prize for International Criminal Law Studies in 2013 for his innovative contributions to the field. His writings on international criminal law focus on criminal law theory, crimes against humanity, command responsibility, and ecocide.

Sergey Vasiliev is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam, where he teaches international, transnational, European, and comparative criminal law and the rule-of-law aspects of criminal law across several master's programmes. He is also serving as the (inaugural) director of the Amsterdam Center for Criminal Justice and the academic director of the LL.M. International Criminal Law (including the joint track with the Columbia Law School). Previously, he was as an assistant professor of public international law at the Leiden Law School and a postdoctoral researcher on pluralism in/of international criminal law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His scholarship mostly focuses on procedural, institutional and governance aspects of international (criminal) justice.

Elies van Sliedregt is Professor of Criminal Law at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. She was the 2015 Holding Redlich fellow at the Castan Center for Human Rights at Monash University, Melbourne and, in 2018, appointed as Fellow of McLaughlin College, York University, Toronto. She is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences (KNAW), sits on the Advisory Committee on Public International Law (CAVV) and is a trustee of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL). She has published extensively in the field of international, European and comparative criminal law.

Valerie Oosterveld is a full Professor at Western University's Faculty of Law. She has published widely on the interpretation of sexual and gender-based crimes by international criminal tribunals. She is the co-editor of the award-winning Gender and International Criminal Law (OUP, 2022). She was awarded the 2023 Canadian Association of Law Teachers Academic Excellence Award and the 2022 Royal Society of Canada Ursula Franklin Award in Gender Studies. She is a member of the Canadian Partnership for International Justice, which won the 2023 Governor-General's Innovation Award and the 2022 SSHRC Impact Partnership Award. A former lawyer with Global Affairs Canada's Legal Bureau, she served on the Canadian delegation to various International Criminal Court-related negotiations.