General Rules and Principles of International Criminal Procedure

Summary of the Project

The project is a joint initiative by HiiL and the Amsterdam Center for International Law of the University of Amsterdam (ACIL). It aims to elaborate a set of general rules and principles of international criminal procedure with a further perspective of solidifying them into a Model Code of International Criminal Procedure. For that purpose, a group of expert researchers from all over the world will critically analyse all major areas of international criminal procedure. The objective of this study is the identification, on the basis of the doctrinal systematisation/ codification of the core provisions of international criminal procedure, of fundamental standards that serve as common denominators within a nascent system of international and internationalized criminal courts.

The general rules and principles of international criminal procedure which are to be developed as a result of this research project are intended as a guiding framework for the procedural law and practices of both the contemporary and future administration of international criminal justice. As such, they will assist in facing the greatest challenge of international criminal justice: delivering effective and fair trials. Further, as national courts increasingly prosecute complex international crime cases, this codification exercise may be of assistance to interpret or supplement national procedural law in order to deal with new procedural challenges related to such cases.

Project leader

Prof. Göran Sluiter - University of Amsterdam

Steering Board

Prof. Håkan Friman - University College London
Prof. Suzannah Linton - University of Hong Kong
Prof. Göran Sluiter - University of Amsterdam
Prof. Salvatore Zappalà - University of Catania

Advisory Board

Geert Corstens - Supreme Court of The Netherlands
Marc Groenhuijsen - Tilburg University
Herman von Hebel - STL
Daqun Liu - ICTY
Catherine Marchi-Uhel - ECCC
Howard Morrison - ICTY
Erik Mose - ICTR
Motoo Noguchi - ECCC
Daniel Ntanda Nsereko - ICC
Kimberly Prost - ICTY
Philip Rapoza - Massachusetts Appeals Court
Geoffrey Robertson - Doughty Street Chambers; formerly SCSL
Bert Swart - University of Amsterdam
Stefan Trechsel - ICTY
Patricia Wald - formerly ICTY
Inés Weinberg de Roca - ICTR
Christine van den Wyngaert - ICC

Researchers

Adesola Adeboyejo - ICC
Alexander Zahar - Griffith University, formerly ICTR and ICTY
Anne-Marie de Brouwer - Tilburg University
Astrid Reisinger Coracini - University of Graz
B. Don Taylor III - ICTY
Barbara Roche - ICC
Carl-Friedrich Stuckenberg - University of Saarbrücken
Celso Coracini - UN Office on Drugs and Crime
Daryl Mundis - ICTY
Fabricio Guariglia - ICC
Fergal Gaynor - ICTY
Frédéric Mégret - McGill University
Gabrielle McIntyre - ICTY
Gideon Boas - Monash University
Gilbert Bitti - ICC
Guido Acquaviva - ICTY
Hector Olásolo - University Utrecht, ICC
Helen Brady - ICTY
Jenia Iontcheva Turner - SMU Dedman School of Law
Jens David Ohlin - Cornell Law School
Jerome de Hemptinne - formerly ICTY and ICC
John Jackson - University College Dublin
Karel de Meester - University of Amsterdam
Lorenzo Gradoni - University of Bologna
Margaret DeGuzman - Irish Centre for Human Rights
Mark Klamberg - Stockholm University
Matteo Costi - ICTY
Melinda Taylor ICC
Mikaela Heikkilä - Åbo Akademi University
Nancy Amoury Combs - William and Mary School of Law
Nina Jørgensen - ECCC
Rod Rastan - ICC
Roland Adjovi - formerly ICTR
Sarah Nouwen - Cambridge University
Sergey Vasiliev - University of Amsterdam
Stefan Kirsch - Defence counsel ICTY
Till Gut - University of Cologne
Thomas Weigend - University of Cologne
Vladimir Tochilovsky - ICTY
William Schabas - Irish Centre for Human Rights

Duration

October 2008 – October 2010

Grant awarded

€ 250,000,-

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