Essays on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued five warrants of arrest for crimes against humanity and war crimes, addressed to leaders of Ugandan rebels. One further warrant was issued against a member of an armed force implicated in the conflict of Ituri (DRC) for military enlistment of children under fifteen. The Security Council referred to the Court the situation of crimes against humanity and war crimes being committed during the conflict in Sudan. Finally, the ICC Statute not only constitutes an abstract code on crimes against humanity and war crimes, but, seven years after its adoption in Rome, it is concretely applicable. It is the first time that an international criminal tribunal is prosecuting a suspect of enlistment into armed force of children. So, it appears particularly topical a collection of commentaries of the rules of this Statute. It is what did Flavia Lattanzi, legal adviser of Italian delegation to the Rome Conference of 1998 and then to the Preparatory Committee of the Court, and William A. Schabas, a legal NGO adviser in these same international forums, by editing two volumes on “Essays on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court”. In these volumes you find the result of a research conducted by scholars of many scientific institutions of the world on the most relevant legal topics dealt with by the Rome Statute. In these volumes you find the result of a research conducted by scholars of many scientific institutions of the world on the most relevant legal topics dealt with by the Rome Statute.