Darryl Robinson is a professor at Queen's University Faculty of Law. As a Legal Officer at Foreign Affairs Canada (1997-2004), he advised on international criminal law and helped negotiate the Statute of the International Criminal Court. He was also an adviser at the International Criminal Court (2004-6). He received the Antonio Cassese Prize for International Criminal Law Studies in 2013 for his innovative contributions to the field. His writings on international criminal law focus on criminal law theory, crimes against humanity, command responsibility, and ecocide.

Preface to the fifth edition; Table of international cases; Table of national cases; List of abbreviations; List of abbreviations of book titles; Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction: what is international criminal law?; 2. The aims, objectives and justi¿cations of international criminal law; Part II. Prosecutions in National Courts: 3. Jurisdiction; 4. National prosecutions of international crimes; 5. State cooperation with respect to national proceedings; Part III. International Prosecution: 6. The history of international criminal prosecutions: Nuremberg and Tokyo; 7. The Ad Hoc international criminal tribunals; 8. The international criminal court; 9. Other hybrid and special courts; Part IV. Substantive law of International Crimes: 10. Genocide; 11. Crimes against humanity; 12. War crimes; 13. Aggression; 14. Transnational crimes, terrorism and torture; 15. General principles of liability; 16. Defences/grounds for excluding criminal responsibility; Part V. International Criminal Procedure and Sentencing: 17. International criminal procedure; 18. Victims in the International criminal process; 19. Punishment and sentencing; Part VI. Relationship Between National and International Systems: 20. State cooperation with the international courts and tribunals; 21. Immunities; 22. Alternatives and complements to criminal prosecution; 23. The future of international criminal law; Index.