{"id":456050,"date":"2010-03-21T17:25:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T21:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=11667"},"modified":"2010-03-21T17:25:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T21:25:31","slug":"book-review-oxford-companion-to-international-criminal-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/456050","title":{"rendered":"Book Review, Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Kevin Jon Heller <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My book review of the <em>Oxford Companion<\/em>, edited by Antonio Cassese and many others, has just been published in the <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.asil.org\/ajil.cfm\">new issue<\/a> of the <em>American Journal of International Law<\/em>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a decent-sized review, almost 5,000 words, as befits a book that checks in at more than 1200 pages.\u00a0 I argue that the book is a magisterial achievement, one of the most important ever published on international criminal law, but suffers from two important flaws: it reflects an extremely prosecution-centric view of ICL, and it significantly overstates ICL&#8217;s coherence.\u00a0 (My favorite example of the former: the entry on code of conduct for defence counsel is twice as long as the entry on the right to counsel.)<\/p>\n<p>The book review is not available on-line without a subscription.\u00a0 If anyone would like to read it but can&#8217;t obtain a copy, feel free to send me an email.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/VTJUELnSkEo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kevin Jon Heller My book review of the Oxford Companion, edited by Antonio Cassese and many others, has just been published in the new issue of the American Journal of International Law.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a decent-sized review, almost 5,000 words, as befits a book that checks in at more than 1200 pages.\u00a0 I argue that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}