Complementarity in the Rome Statute and National Criminal Jurisdictions

Jann K. Kleffner is Assistant Professor of International Law at the Amsterdam Centre for International Law, University of Amsterdam Law School. He has co-authored Internationalized Criminal Courts and Tribunals: Sierra Leone, East Timor, Kosovo, and Cambodia with Andre Nollkaemper and Cesare Romano, (OUP, 2004).Jann K. Kleffner studied law in Germany, the UK and The Netherlands. He obtained his LL.M. and PhD degrees from the University of Amsterdam, where he currently holds a position as Assistant Professor of International Law. His main research and teaching activities are in the fields of international criminal law and the laws of armed conflict. He is Managing Editor of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law and holds a number of other appointments, including as Member of the Committee on compensation for victims of war of the International Law Association and as Visiting Lecturer at the Netherlands Defense Academy. Previously, he also served as a Member of the Informal Expert Group consulting the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Complementarity in Practice and as General Rapporteur on the "Compatibility of national legal systems with the Statute of the Permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) " for the International Society of Military Law and the Law of War.

• Acknowledgments ; List of Abbreviations ; Table of Cases ; Table of Treaties ; 1. Introduction ; 2. National Suppression of Core Crimes ; 3. The Context and Emergence of Complementarity ; 4. Complementarity as a Legal Principle and as Criteria for Admissibility ; 5. The Procedural Setting of Complementarity ; 6. Complementarity and the Obligation to Investigate and Prosecute ; 7. Complementarity as a Catalyst for Compliance ; 8. Conclusions ; Bibliography ; Documents ; Index

His project is to lead us first through a rigorous engagement with the text of the ICC Statute and then to focus our attention upon the "challenges ahead" (p.349): principally the need to conceptualise a broader system of international criminal justice in an equally rigorous and systematic manner. It is a task in which the present volume excels, and it will deservedly stand as a defining work in its field