The International Criminal Court and Africa

Charles Chernor Jalloh, Professor of Law, Florida International University, Miami, USA,Ilias Bantekas, Professor of International Law, Brunel Law School, UK

Charles Chernor Jalloh is Full Professor of International Law at Florida International University (FIU), Miami, USA and a member of the United Nations International Law Commission. Before joining FIU, he taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he was selected as the Buchanan Ingersoll and Rooney Faculty Scholar for 2013-2014. He has practiced law in the Canadian Department of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), where he was duty counsel in the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor and, as a visiting professional, in the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Ilias Bantekas is Full Professor of international law at Brunel University School of Law and Director of the University of London LLB Program in Athens. He has held visiting appointments, among others, at Harvard, School of Oriental and African Studies (UoL), Miami and Cleveland-State, and has advised governments and international organisations, such as the UNDP, the European Union and the Council of Europe, as well as international law firms and non-governmental organisations.

Introduction
Part 1: The Sources of Discord and Wider Context of the African-ICC Relationship
1. Africa, the ICC and Universal Jurisdiction, Martin Mennecke
2. The Implementation of the Proprio Motu Authority of the Prosecutor in Africa, Manisuli Ssenyonjo
3. Operationalising the Complementarity Principle: A Case for a Differentiated Standard in Kenya's Post-Election Violence, Benson Olugbuo
4. Sequencing Peace and Justice in Post-Conflict Africa: The ICC Perspective, Ilias Bantekas
5. The ICC and Africa: A Problematic Relationship, Gino Naldi and Konstantinos Magliveras
Part 2: From Self-Referrals to Self-Deferrals? The Prosecutions of International Crimes by the ICC in Africa and the African State Pushback
6. The Al-Bashir and Kenyatta cases at the ICC: Testing the Rules of the Rome Statute on Personal Immunities, Paola Gaeta and Patryk I Labuda
7. Presence of the Accused, Right or Duty? The Art of Interpretation in a Tense Political Climate, Dire D. Tladi
8. The African Union, the Security Council and the International Criminal Court, Charles Chernor Jalloh
9. The South African, Burundian and Gambian Withdrawals from the International Criminal Court, Manisuli Ssenyonjo
Part 3: Africa: In Search of Complements or Alternatives to the ICC?
10. The Development of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice in Africa from pre-Colonial Rule to Present Day, Kebreab Isaac Weldesellaise
11. National Implementation of the ICC Statute to Prosecute International Crimes in Africa, Olympia Bekou
12. The Place of Regional Courts in the Prosecution of International and Other Crimes, Charles Chernor Jalloh
13. Who Will Prosecute Piracy in Africa?, Efthymios Papastavridis
14. Complementing the ICC Efforts to Curb the Impunity of International Crimes in Africa: The Role and Contribution of Community-Based Mechanisms, Pacifique Manirakiza
Conclusion