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…

Professor Robert Cryer is Professor of International and Criminal Law at the University of Birmingham Law School, UK. He is the author of Prosecuting International Crimes: Selectivity and the International Criminal System (Cambridge, 2005) and co-author of An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure (Cambridge, 2007).  One of the…

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…