Foreword to the third edition
Author | Charles C Jalloh |
Profession | Professor of Law, Florida International University, Miami Member, International Law Commission |
Pages | 27-30 |
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FOREWORD
to the Third Edition
It is a delight to have been asked to wr ite a foreword to the third edition
of this importa nt book on international and t ransnational crimin al law.
Of course, at a global level, there are many introductory b ooks focusing
only on international criminal law (ICL), and there are also a handful
of books introducing readers to transnational criminal law (TCL). The
beauty of this outstanding book is that it combines the two fields in a
way that is accessible, yet elegant.
The authors of this book, Rob Currie and Joseph Rik hof, are among
only a few legal scholars who have rightly recognized the close rela-
tionship and intersection between ICL and TCL. For our purpose s, ICL
comprises the body of legal rules and standards that prohibits certain
types of conduct as criminal under international law, such as geno-
cide and crimes against humanity, and proposes various methods for
their investigation, prosecution, and punishment. That system of law,
born out of the ashes of World War II, led to the infamous Nuremberg
Trials and now directly addresses the criminal liability of perpetrators
through primary enforcement by states using their national courts.
When states fail to act, because they are unwilling, unable, or both,
international or hybrid criminal tribunals established for such pur-
poses may step in as part of a secondary system that works to provide
a measure of criminal justice for the victims.
TCL can be understood as a body of legal rules addressing crimes,
usually under domestic law, whose defining characteristic is enacting
actual or potential transborder effects. Most of these crimes, such as
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