Transitional justice (hereinafter "TJ") has originally been associated with a "transition" from one (totalitarian, authoritarian) regime to another (democratic) or from war/armed conflict to peace. After all, the use of the term „transitional‟ implies some kind of transition or change, that...

Current International Criminal Law (ICL) suffers from at least four fairly serious theoretical shortcomings. First, as a starting point, the concept and meaning of ICL in its different variations must be clarified (‘the concept and meaning issue'). Second, the question of whether and how...

This inquiry explores the question of transnational companies' criminal liability for international crimes, reviewing the current state of research in the field of international economic criminal law, a discipline that hitherto has received only scant analysis. Following some preliminary...

The joint criminal enterprise doctrine appears more and more as the magic weapon in the prosecution of international crimes. Yet, the doctrine not only gives rise to conceptual confusion and conflicts with some fundamental principles of (international) criminal law but also invades the...