Nuremberg Academy Series
The Nuremberg Academy Series (NAS) is a publication series of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy. The Academy’s Deputy Director, Dr. Viviane Dittrich, is the Series Editor. The Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher is pleased to have been the publisher of the first five volumes in the Series. The e-book version of these five volumes can be accessed or downloaded through the links below. The hard-cover version can be ordered through the ‘Order’ link.
Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
Brussels, 2021
804 pages.
First published on 17 December 2021.
ISBN print: 978-82-8348-173-0.
ISBN e-book: 978-82-8348-174-7.
PURL: https://www.toaep.org/nas-pdf/5-dittrich-heinze.
Topic: This anthology marks the twentieth anniversary of the Rome Statute with a broad assessment of the International Criminal Court’s development over time – portraying its establishment (‘past’), critically engaging with its successes and challenges (‘present’), and charting its way forward (‘future’). Combining insiders’ and outside experts’ perspectives, including chapters by Benjamin B. Ferencz, Fatou Bensouda, Leila Nadya Sadat, Heiko Maas and Bertram Schmitt, and forewords by ICC President Piotr Hofmański and Trust Fund for Victims Board Chair Mama Koité Doumbia, the volume examines five key topics: prosecutorial policy and strategy, jurisdiction and admissibility, victims and witnesses, defence issues, and legitimacy and independence, incorporating papers from the Nuremberg Forum, 2018.
Keywords: International Criminal Court; Rome Statute twentieth anniversary; ICC prosecutorial policy and strategy; jurisdiction and admissibility; victims and witnesses; legitimacy of international courts; Nuremberg Academy; international criminal justice.
Contributors: Adedeji Adekunle, Alexander Heinze, Anderson Javiel Dirocie De León, André C.U. Nwadikwa-Jonathan, Andrea Marrone, Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov, Barbara Lochbihler, Benjamin B. Ferencz, Benjamin Gumpert, Bertram Schmitt, Brice Van Erps, Cara Cunningham Warren, Christoph Safferling, Christopher R.F. Hale, Claire Magnoux, Ellie Smith, Fannie Lafontaine, Fatou Bensouda, Fergal Gaynor, Gurgen Petrossian, Heiko Maas, Hilde Farthofer, Juan Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo, Katarína Šmigová, Leila Nadya Sadat, Mama Koité Doumbia, Nicholas E. Ortiz, Nicolai von Maltitz, Philippe Currat, Piotr Hofmański, Shannon E. Fyfe, Thomas Körner, Viviane E. Dittrich, Yulia Nuzban.
Related content:
220222 Online Panel Discussion and Book Launch, International Nuremberg Principles Academy.
Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
Brussels, 2020
1,192 pages.
First published on 19 November 2020.
ISBN print: 978-82-8348-190-7.
ISBN e-book: 978-82-8348-191-4.
PURL: https://www.toaep.org/nas-pdf/4-bergsmo-dittrich.
Topic: This anthology is the first book-length treatment of integrity in international justice, examining individual and institutional integrity across 33 chapters. Contributors analyse the meaning of integrity as a legally binding standard – the statutory requirement of ‘high moral character’ for high officials – alongside awareness and culture of integrity, the roles of states, international organizations and courts in enhancing it, integrity seen through cases, and its relationship with judicial independence. Drawing on philosophy, history, psychology and religion, and with chapters by prominent judges including Hans Corell, Richard J. Goldstone and Hanne Sophie Greve, the volume argues that integrity among officials and staff is a prerequisite for international courts to fulfil their mandates.
Keywords: Integrity in international justice; international courts and tribunals; high moral character standard; judicial independence and integrity; election of international judges and prosecutors; institutional integrity; international civil service ethics; Nuremberg Academy; Thomas More.
Contributors: Adedeji Adekunle, Adel Maged, Adrian M. Plevin, Alexander Heinze, Andrew T. Cayley, Ann Marie Ursini, Antonio Angotti, Basil Saen, Bettina Julia Spilker, Brigid Inder, Christopher Staker, Cyril Laucci, David Donat-Cattin, David Re, Dieneke T. de Vos, Emiliano J. Buis, Erik Møse, Gregory S. Gordon, Gunnar M. Ekeløve-Slydal, Hanne Sophie Greve, Hans Corell, Ivana Hrdličková, Jan Fougner, Jonathan Agar, Juan Carlos Botero, Julija Bogoeva, Karim A.A. Khan, Marina Aksenova, Marta Hirsch-Ziembinska, Matthias Neuner, Melissa Verpile, Mohamed Elewa Badar, Morten Bergsmo, Polona Florijančič, Richard J. Goldstone, Salim A. Nakhjavani, Shan Patel, Shannon E. Fyfe, Suhail Mohammed, Teresa McHenry, Vieri Biondi, Viviane E. Dittrich, William H. Wiley.
Related content:
201119 Film about the book.
‘Why Individual Integrity Matters’, Gunnar M. Ekeløve-Slydal, Opinio Juris, 12 December 2020.
Book launch at the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, 2 February 2021.
Letter from the Secretary General, House of Representatives, Egypt (English translation).
‘Some Remarks on Integrity in International Justice’, Rohit Gupta, PBS No. 133, 19 August 2022.
‘Assuring Integrity: Challenges in the ICC Independent Oversight Mechanism’, Ezequiel Jimenez, PBS No. 165, 25 February 2025.
‘The Independence and Empowerment of International Criminal Tribunals’, Peter Koelling, St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice and Ethics, vol. 14 (2024), no. 2, discusses the book on pp. 254–261.
Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
Brussels, 2020
472 pages.
First published on 27 October 2020.
ISBN print: 978-82-8348-137-2.
ISBN e-book: 978-82-8348-138-9.
PURL: https://www.toaep.org/nas-pdf/3-dittrich-lingen-osten-makraiova.
Topic: This anthology presents a contemporary rereading of the Tokyo Tribunal – the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (‘IMTFE’) – combining perspectives from law, history and the social sciences. Emerging from a conference marking the seventieth anniversary of the IMTFE judgment, its chapters by eminent scholars examine the Tribunal’s foundations and its dynamics, including comparison with the Nuremberg Tribunal, the trial as a transcultural endeavour, its treatment of sexual violence, women’s overlooked roles, the pioneering interpreting system, individual responsibility, the crime of aggression, and President William Webb’s contested legacy, before turning to the trial’s reception in Japanese scholarship and memory, clemency for convicted war criminals, and lessons for the International Criminal Court.
Keywords: Tokyo Tribunal; International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE); Tokyo war crimes trial; Nuremberg and Tokyo trials; Japanese war crimes; crimes against peace; war crimes trials history and memory; international criminal law history.
Contributors: Beatrice Trefalt, Christoph Safferling, David Cohen, David M. Crowe, Diane Marie Amann, Diane Orentlicher, Donald M. Ferencz, Franziska Seraphim, Gerry Simpson, Jolana Makraiová, Kayoko Takeda, Kerstin von Lingen, Kuniko Ozaki, Marina Aksenova, Narrelle Morris, Philipp Osten, Robert Cribb, Sandra Wilson, Viviane E. Dittrich, Yuma Totani.
Related content:
Review by Miloš Vec in Historische Zeitschrift, vol. 314 (2022), no. 2, pp. 541–544.
201030 Online Panel Discussion and Book Launch, International Nuremberg Principles Academy.
Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
Brussels, 2018
262 pages.
First published on 16 November 2018.
ISBN: 978-82-8348-188-4.
PURL: https://www.toaep.org/nas-pdf/2-gray.
Topic: This anthology explores international criminal law and justice in Islámic legal, social, philosophical and political contexts, mindful of alleged and proven core international crimes committed within the majority-Muslim world. Leading Muslim jurists and scholars – including Mashood A. Baderin, Asma Afsaruddin, Ahmed Al-Dawoody and Mohamed Elewa Badar – emphasize parallels between the Islámic ‘legal family’ and international criminal law, examining how Islámic legal traditions shape state practice, what constitutes authority and legitimacy, whether international criminal law is truly universal or too Western, and how majority-Muslim states might be encouraged to join the International Criminal Court. Dedicated to the memory of M. Cherif Bassiouni, the anthology demonstrates that scholarship across legal traditions enriches both.
Keywords: Islám and international criminal law; Islámic law and justice; Islámic jurisprudence (fiqh); Sharíʻah and international law; universality of international criminal law; Nuremberg Principles in the Muslim world; Islámic legal tradition; accountability for atrocity crimes; International Criminal Court and Muslim states.
Contributors: Abdelrahman Afifi, Ahmed Al-Dawoody, Asma Afsaruddin, Mashood A. Baderin, Mohamed Elewa Badar, Onder Bakircioglu, Satwant Kaur Heer, Shaheen Sardar Ali, Siraj Khan, Tallyn Gray, Viviane E. Dittrich.
Related content:
181210 Book Launch and Thematic Panel Discussion.
Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
Brussels, 2017
483 pages.
First published on 29 April 2017.
ISBN: 978-82-8348-186-0.
PURL: https://www.toaep.org/nas-pdf/1-carter-schense.
Topic: This anthology offers case studies of the deterrent effect of international criminal tribunals in 10 situations – six of them before the International Criminal Court (‘ICC’) – across four tribunals: the ICC, the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Conceived at the suggestion of former ICC President Song Sang-Hyun as the first in-depth study of its kind, it draws on fieldwork by researchers largely from the situation countries themselves, assessing the rise and fall of criminality and perceptions of deterrence among diverse respondents. Combining quantitative and qualitative analysis, the anthology presents concrete findings and recommendations for enhancing tribunals’ capacity to prevent core international crimes.
Keywords: Deterrent effect of international criminal tribunals; deterrence in international criminal law; International Criminal Court impact; ICTY; ICTR; Special Court for Sierra Leone; core international crimes; atrocity crime prevention.
Contributors: Dafina Bucaj, Eleanor Thompson, Evelyne Asaala, Jennifer Schense, Kasande Sarah Kihika, Kounkinè Augustin Somé, Linda Carter, Mackline Ingabire, Olivia Bueno, Seydou Doumbia, Sharanjeet Parmar, Sladjana Lazic.
Related content:
170429 Book Launch at the International Nuremberg Principles Academy.
