The monograph by Gerhard Hankel "Unter Waffen schweigen die Gesetze"? - Völkerrechtsverbrechen und ihre Ahndung" ("In times of war, the law falls silent"? - Cremes under international Criminal law and their punishment") has been published with the German Federal Agency for Civic Education.
More information can be found here.
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Publications
Monograph about crimes under international criminal law and their punishment
Events
Conference „THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW“
„WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON THE ICC”
On Friday, 10 July 2026, Kai Ambos and Svenja Raube are hosting the conference "The Future of International Criminal Law - with a special focus on the ICC" at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice of Georg August University of Göttingen. The program as well as a possibility to sign up can be found here.
Publications
Special Issue of MschrKrim
A Special Issue of the Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform, edited by Susanne Karstedt, Filip Vojta & Nandor Knust is dedicated to "Atrocity Crimes and International Criminal Justice: Linking the Past and Future". It contains various articles on criminological explanations for macro-criminality, international criminal justice investigations as well as the enforcement of international judgments and questions of compensation in transitional corporations. The issue can be found here .
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Anmerkung zu BGH 3 StR 496/23
Die Anmerkung von Aziz Epik (Uni Hamburg) zu „Völkermord – eine wichtige Klarstellung aus Karlsruhe, Anmerkung zu BGH 3 StR 496/23“ ist in der Juristenzeitung 2025, S. 1093-1096 erschienen. Der Text ist here .
Events
ICDL Annual Conference
The annual conference of the International Criminal Defence Lawyers Germany e.V. will take place on 24 January 2026 in Berlin. Further information can be found here.