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Title

The travaux preparatoires of the crime of aggression / [edited by Stefan Barriga and Claus Kress].

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Barriga, Stefan.
• Kress, Claus.

Description

xxxix, 835 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

• "The Travaux Preparatoires of the Crime of Aggression contains a complete documentation of the fifteen years of negotiations which led up to the historic adoption of the amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court at the 2010 Review Conference in Kampala. Arranged chronologically, it includes all relevant official Chairman's drafts, non-papers, country proposals, meeting reports and summary records, as well as selected unpublished materials and transcripts from the dramatic negotiations at the Review Conference. Three introductory articles, each written from the perspective of an insider, put the Kampala compromise into context and explore the amendments on the crime of aggression, their negotiation history and the intentions of the drafters"--
• "The purpose of this volume, by which the Cambridge Library of the Crime of Aggression is opened, is to document the road to the Kampala compromise on the crime of aggression. This compromise includes a resolution, amendments to the Rome Statute, the corresponding amendments to the Elements of Crimes and seven interpretive understandings adopted by the States Parties to the Rome Statute. Part I of this volume contains three introductory articles written by negotiators describing the main strands of the negotiation process, beginning with the adoption of the Rome Statute, the challenges encountered, the compromises struck and the reasons underlying them. Part II contains the resolution on the crime of aggression as adopted in Kampala"--

Series Statement

Crime of aggression library

Uniform Title

Crime of aggression library.

Subject

• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998 July 17)
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998)
• Aggression (International law) > History > Sources
• LAW > International
• Aggression (International law)
• AGGRESSION
• FORCE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
• INTERNATIONAL LAW

Genre/Form

• History.
• Sources.
• Travaux préparatoires (Treaties)
• Travaux préparatoires (Traités)

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Part I. Introduction to the Negotiation History: 1. Negotiating the amendments on the crime of aggression; 2. Negotiating the elements of the crime of aggression; 3. Negotiating the understandings on the crime of aggression; Part II. Amendments to the Rome Statute on the Crime of Aggression; Part III. Select Historic Documents (1945-1996); Part IV. Travaux Preparatoires (1995-2010); Part V. Index of Travaux Preparatoires.

ISBN

• 9781107015272
• 1107015278
• 9781107639201
• 1107639204

LCCN

2011040525

OCLC

• ocn748328394
• 748328394
• SCSB-1626859

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library