Robert Cryer

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Robert Cryer is Professor of International and Criminal Law at the University of Birmingham Law School. He has lectured and spoken widely at both national and international level, primarily on international criminal law and public international law more generally.

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Book Discussion: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and Criminal Law, What Is, and What Should Be

It is probably the case (or perhaps I just hope that it is) that most international lawyers get into the area as they have some sense of justice, and also that those that became human rights lawyers did so on the basis that it is the role of such lawyering that it is to improve the lives of…

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ESIL-International Human Rights Law Symposium: International Criminal Law and International Human Rights Law

International criminal law and human rights might, at one level, seem to be antipathetic. Not least, because, at the domestic level, most international human rights lawyers tend (and very frequently rightly) to decry the excesses of domestic criminal justice systems both at the procedural and substantive level. It might be thought, therefore, that it is a…

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The Nuremberg Military Tribunals, Naturalism, Authority, and Causation

Robert Cryer is Professor of International and Criminal Law at the University of Birmingham Law School. Let me say at the outset that I think that Kevin has done an excellent job on the book (as have OUP in its production). I should probably also say, in the interests of full disclosure, that I…

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