Members of the McCoubrey Centre feature in New International Publication

Three members of the McCoubrey Centre for International Law feature prominently in a major new edited collection recently published by Martinus Nijhoff. 

The Legal Regime of the International Criminal Court: Essays in Honour of Igor Blishchenko (edited by José Doria, Hans-Peter Grasser, M. Cherif Bassiouni) is volume 19 of the International Humanitarian Law Series and has been heralded as an impressive and unique study of important aspects of the International Criminal Court and international criminal law. 

Professor Lindsay Moir contributed four separate chapters to the collection: Chapter 20 "Conduct of Hostilities - War Crimes"; Chapter 24 "Particular Issues Regarding War Crimes in Internal Armed Conflicts"; Chapter 25 "Violations of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions"; Chapter 26 "Displacement of Civilians as a War Crime other than a Violation of Common Article 3 in International Armed Conflicts".  Dr. Matthew Happold contributed Chapter 23 "Child Recruitment as a Crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court".  Dr. Richard Burchill contributed Chapter 12"From East Timor to Timor Leste: A Demonstration of the Limits of International Law in the Pursuit of Justice" and was also a member of the Board of Reviewers for the publication.

Further details of the publication may be found here http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=22926.

Date added: 27/07/2009