A comprehensive source of the most authoritative statements of the International Criminal Court's appellate jurisprudence. Its clear format includes commentaries followed by excerpts of the decisions and judgments, carefully selected by lawyers based on their relevance and grouped by topic. It provides a practical background to the International Criminal Court's appellate jurisprudence from experienced current and former Appeals Counsel of the Office of the Prosecutor of the Court, highlighting pertinent issues. In doing so, readers are given the tools to discern the meaning of the case law themselves, while attention is drawn to the most important developments in the jurisprudence. This text presents an authoritative and comprehensive digest of the Appeals Chamber's jurisprudence, bringing the relevant case extracts together for the first time with clear and informative commentary.

'Prepared by experienced litigators, this timely digest offers an extremely useful inside view of the first fifteen years at the ICC. It helps to understand the responses already given by the Court to some key challenges and will contribute to identify ways and means to enhance its future work.'

Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi - Former ICC President and Judge at the ICC Appeals Chamber

'Judicial reasoning in the form of appeal court decisions is an essential source of any developing jurisprudence. This compendium of case law from the superior tribunal in the international criminal jurisdiction is not only a credit to its authors but a testament to the maturity of the ICC. Its content is essential distillations of principle and practice. Its structure is imaginative and theorized around the unique features of justice expanded in the preamble. This compilation fills a void in much more than substantive legal commentary. The value of the book will be measured by its application in the critical development of a genuine international criminal law.’

Mark Findlay - Singapore Management University

'A daunting task for international criminal lawyers is to understand the true significance of the ICC’s extensive and developing appellate jurisprudence, and to distinguish deep-rooted trends from passing aberrations. This text shines a brilliant and highly authoritative light on the burgeoning case law, and it will immediately become the indispensable guide for practitioners.'

Lord Justice Adrian Fulford - Investigatory Powers Commissioner (UK) and Presiding Judge at the ICC Trial Chamber in the Lubanga Case

'Comprehensive, richly detailed and impeccably authoritative, this is an essential reference on the interpretation of the Rome Statute. It also testifies to the already huge contribution of the Appeals Chamber to the development of international criminal law.'

William Schabas - Middlesex University, London