Legal regime of the international criminal court essays in honour of Professor Igor Blishchenko in memoriam Professor Igor Pavlovich Blishchenko (1930-2000)

Includes bibliographical references.

Early efforts to establish an international criminal court / Jackson Maogoto -- The Tokyo Trial revisited / Hisakazu Fujita -- The work of national military tribunals under control council law 10 / Jackson Maogoto -- The experience of the ad hoc tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda / Jackson Maogoto -- Customary law or "judge-made" law : judicial creativity at the UN criminal tribunals / William Schabas -- Bombardment : from "Brussels 1874" to "Sarajevo 2003" / Frits Kalshoven -- The relationship between complicity modes of liability and specific intent crimes in the law and practice of the ICTY / José Doria -- Plea bargaining : the uninvited guest at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia / Mark Harmon -- Provisional release in the law of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia / Fergal Gaynor -- Undue delay and the ICTY's experience of status conferences : a judge's personal annotations / Almiro Rodrigues -- The work of the special court for Sierra Leone through its jurisprudence / José Doria -- From East Timor to Timor-Leste : a demonstration of the limits of international law in the pursuit of justice / Richard Burchill -- Bosnia's war crimes chamber and the challenges of an opening and closure / Avril McDonald -- The judges of the International Criminal Court and the organization of their work / Hirad Abtahi -- The International Criminal Court's office of the prosecutor : navigating between independence and accountability? / Jan Wouters, Sten Verhoeven, and Bruno Demeyere -- The support work of the court's registry / Anna Lachowska -- Jus Cogens, obligations Erga Omnes and international criminal responsibility / Wladyslaw Czapliński -- Jurisdiction ratione personae or the personal reach of the court's jurisdiction / Christopher L. Blakesley -- The ICC and the security council : an uncomfortable relationship / Nigel White and Robert Cryer -- Conduct of hostilities : war crimes / Lindsay Moir -- Crimes involving disproportionate means and methods of warfare under the statute of the International Criminal Court / Judith Gardam -- International legal protections for persons hors de combat / Sergei A. Egorov -- Child recruitment as a crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court / Matthew Happold -- Particular issues regarding war crimes in internal armed conflicts / Lindsay Moir -- Violations of common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions / Lindsay Moir -- Displacement of civilians as a war crime other than a violation of common Article 3 in internal armed conflicts / Lindsay Moir -- Whether crimes against humanity are backdoor war crimes / José Doria -- The crime of aggression and the International Criminal Court / Roger S. Clark -- The doctrine of command responsibility / Charles Garraway -- The transposition of military commander's discretion onto international criminal responsibility for military commanders : an increasing legal-political dilemma within international criminal justice / Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops -- Official capacity and immunity of an accused before the International Criminal Court / Eric David -- Self-defence and state of necessity in the statute of the ICC / Eric David -- The diverging position of criminal law defences before the ICTY and the ICC : contemporary developments / Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops -- The rules of procedure and evidence and the regulations of the court / Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi and Håkan Friman -- Charging in the ICC and relevant jurisprudence of the ad hoc tribunals / Vladimir Tochilovsky -- Prosecution disclosure obligations in the ICC and relevant jurisprudence of the ad hoc tribunals / Vladimir Tochilovsky -- The conduct of trials / José D'Aoust -- Victims' rights and interests in the International Criminal Court / Theo van Boven -- Ensuring effective participation and adequate redress for victims : challenges ahead for the ICC / Ilaria Bottigliero -- Uniform justice and the death penalty / Eric Myjer -- Standards of appeals and standards of revision / José Doria -- Cooperation with the court on matters of arrest and surrender of indicted fugitives : lessons from the ad hoc tribunals and national jurisdictions / Daniel Nsereko -- The International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice : some points of contact / Shabtai Rosenne -- International humanitarian law and its implementation by the court / Robert Kolb -- The International Criminal Court : reviewing the case (an American point of view) / Ruth Wedgwood -- The dynamic but complex relationship between international penal law and international humanitarian law / Yves Sandoz -- Ten principles for reconciling truth commissions and criminal prosecutions / Lyal S. Sunga -- The ICC statute and the ratification saga in the states of the commonwealth of independent states / Aslan Abashidze and Elena Trikoz -- The changing relationship between international criminal law, human rights law, and humanitarian law / Hans-Peter Gasser.