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International Crimes, Peace, and Human Rights: The Role of the International Criminal Court. Edited by Dinah Shelton. Ardsley NY: Transnational Publishers, 2000. Index. Pp. iv, 356. $125. - The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: A Challenge to Impunity. Edited by Mauro Politi and Giuseppe Nesi. Burlington VT: Ashgate/Dartmouth, 2001. Index. Pp. xx, 319. $99.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Reed Brody
Reed Brody*
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Human Rights Watch
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 96 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 268 - 273
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References

1 Press Release, Human Rights Watch, “Fight to the Finish” on International Court (July 17, 1998), at <http://www.hrw.org/press98/july/icc-fhll.htm>.

2 Scheffer, David J., The United States and the International Criminal Court, 93 AJIL 12, 12 (1999)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Scheffer, David J., The U.S. Perspective cm the ICC, in The United States and the International Criminal Court 115, 116 (Sewall, Sarah B. & Kaysen, Karl eds., 2000)Google Scholar.

4 As David Scheffer has written in this Journal, 93 AJIL at 19, “complementarity is not a complete answer” for these cases.

5 Id. at 20.

6 22 Trial of the Major War Criminals Before The International Military Tribunal 466 (1948).

7 Arthur Rovine, The National Interest and the World Court, in 1 The Future of the International Court of Justice 313, 319 (Leo Gross ed., 1976) (quoted in International Crimes at 233).

8 See , for example, the articles in the January 1999 issue of this Journal, and Leila Nadya Sadat and S. Richard Carden’s The New International Criminal Court: An Uneasy Revolution, 88 Georgetown L. J. 381 (2000). An excellent journalistic account is provided by Lawrence Weschler in Exceptional Cases in Rome: The United States and the Struggle for the ICC, in Sewell & Kaysen, supra note 3, at 107.

9 See Wippman, David, Atrocities, Deterrence, and the Limits of International Justice, 23 Ford Ham Int’l L. J. 473 (1999)Google Scholar; Note, The Promises of International Prosecution, 114 Harv. L. Rev. 1957 (2001).