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The Grave Breaches Regime in the Geneva Conventions

A Reassessment Sixty Years On

Volume 7, Number 4, September 2008


Editor: James G. Stewart, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

‘Sixty years since the signing of the Geneva Conventions, the grave breaches regime remains a key element within the architecture of modern international criminal law….This special issue of the Journal marks the 60th anniversary of the grave breaches regime by inviting leading academics, practitioners, and legal advisers to address individual components of this once revolutionary criminal regime. The papers are rich and varied [and] our objectives are numerous and ambitious.

In one sense, we hope that this issue will promote a greater understanding of the history of grave breaches and their relationship within other categories of war crimes in contemporary international criminal law. At the same time, this issue will act as a point of reference for practitioners engaged in fulfilling the obligation to prosecute war crimes, thereby furthering the aspirations that originally underpinned the grave breaches regime.’
From the Introduction, by James G. Stewart

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Law as Cruelty: Torture as an International Crime

Volume 6, Number 2, May 2008

Guest Editors: Jens David Ohlin, Associate-in-Law, Columbia Law School, and George P. Fletcher, Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia Law School

Can torture ever be justified? This is just one of the issues tackled in the recent special issue of the Journal of International Criminal Justice entitled ‘Law as Cruelty: Torture as an International Crime’.

The sequence of articles in the special issue proceeds from the general definition of torture, then to defences for the crime of torture, and finally remedies under US and international law.

'...the Journal recognizes a need for unique approaches, with broad disciplinary foundations, to enrich the current legal analysis...the legal community is badly in need of serious research on the topic that is both international in scope and sophisticated in tenor. It is for this reason that the Journal has dedicated a special issue to the topic, in recognition of both the moral urgency of the topic and its legal complexity.'
From the Introduction, by Jens David Ohlin and George P. Fletcher

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Criminal Law Responses to Terrorism After September 11

Volume 4, Number 5, November 2006


Guest Editors: Professor Paola Gaeta, Florence University, Italy, and
Dr Florian Jessberger, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

Five years after September 11, the special issue takes stock by inquiring into the role prosecution and punishment, both at the international and national level, can and do play in addressing contemporary internationalized terrorism. The collection of essays brings together a range of perspectives on the matter. Most of them are written by leading scholars in international law or criminal law from various countries, some by practitioners, such as the Chief of the Terrorism Prevention Branch in the UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention.

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The Rwandan Genocide

Volume 3, Number 4, September 2005


Guest Editor: Professor Paola Gaeta, Florence University, Italy

‘More than 10 years have elapsed since April–May 1994, when the international community failed to prevent or stop one of the gravest tragedies since the Second World War: genocide in Rwanda. This issue of the Journal is entirely devoted to that extremely sad episode of human history.

The authors invited to contribute to this symposium have diverse backgrounds: some are historians, others are lawyers, or journalists, or judges; other contributors are persons who were involved—at some stage and in different capacities—in the Rwandan tragedy. The outcome is a multi-faceted debate that should shed some light on the Rwandan genocide and the complex, contradictory and ultimately disappointing reaction to it at both the national and international levels.’
From the Editorial, by Paola Gaeta


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