Treatise on International Criminal Law

Kai Ambos holds the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Law, International Criminal Law and Public International Law at the Georg-August-University (GAU) Göttingen, Germany. He served as a Judge at the Provincial Court (Landgericht) of Lower Saxony in Göttingen from March 2006 to February 2017 (from January 2015 to September 2015 delegated to the Appeals Court (Oberlandesgericht) Braunschweig); and was appointed Judge at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC), The Hague, in February 2017. In December 2017 he was appointed as Advisor (Amicus Curiae) to the Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace. He is Director of the "Centro de Estudios de Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal Latinoamericano" (CEDPAL) of GAU, life member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge, and external member of the Law Faculty of the University of Lisbon.

• I: The Framework of International Criminal Procedure: Conceptual Foundations, Origins, Goals, and Rights II: Role and Status of Legal Participants III: Jurisdiction and Admissibility (Complementarity) IV: Overview of the Procedure and Special Issues V: Evidence and Disclosure VI: Appeal, Revision and Other Remedies VII: The Cooperation Regime VIII: Enforcement of Sentences and Other Penalties Concluding Remarks

For practitioners, this book is not just theory. It is a practical, deeply informed guide for the procedural rules which apply. The sheer volume of abbreviations used in the field makes the inclusion of a detailed Table of Abbreviations especially welcome. Ambos' work is rigorous, comprehensive and unflinching.