For the Sake of Present and Future Generations: Essays on International Law, Crime and Justice in Honour of Roger S. Clark

Professor Roger Stenson Clark has played a pivotal role in developing International Criminal Law, and the movement against nuclear weapons. He was one of the intellectual and moral fathers of the International Criminal Court. This Festschrift brings together forty-one appreciative friends to honour his remarkable contribution. The distinguished contributors provide incisive contributions ranging from the reform of the Security Council, to rule of law and international justice in Africa, to New Zealand cultural heritage, to customary international law in US courts, and more. Threaded through these richly diverse contributions is one common feature: a belief in values and morality in human conduct, and a passion for transformative use of law, ‘for the sake of present and future generations.’

Suzannah Linton has been, inter alia, Chair of International Law at Bangor University in the UK, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong, a UN prosecutor for Serious Crimes in East Timor, served at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland, and worked in the field in Cambodia, Indonesia, East Timor, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and elsewhere. During her time in Hong Kong, she uncovered war crimes trials held in the territory from 1946-1948 and brought them to global prominence through a database at the University of Hong Kong, and academic publications such as Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials (OUP 2013). She is a founding member of the Antonio Cassese Initiative for Peace, Justice and Humanity.

Gerry Simpson is a Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics and an Open Society International Scholar (based in Tbilisi, Georgia). He is the author of Great Powers and Outlaw States (Cambridge, 2004) and Law, War and Crime: War Crimes Trials and the Reinvention of International Law (Polity 2007). His latest book, The Margins of International Law (a collection of his essays), will be published by Cameron and May in 2015. Gerry currently is working on a book about the literary life of international law.

William A. Schabas OC is a Canadian international law and human rights scholar. He is a professor of international law at Middlesex University a professor of international humanitarian law and human rights at Leiden University, and a widely published scholar on subjects including genocide and international criminal tribunals. In 2014 Professor Schabas was appointed to the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry into the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.