The African Criminal Court: A Commentary on the Malabo Protocol [Hardcover]

This book offers the first comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the provisions of the Malabo Protocolthe amendment protocol to the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples Rightsadopted by the African Union at its 2014 Summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. The Annex to the protocol, once it has received the required number of ratifications, will create a new Section in the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples Rights with jurisdiction over international and transnational crimes, hence an African Criminal Court. In this book, leading experts in the field of international criminal law analyze the main provisions of the Annex to the Malabo Protocol.

Gerhard Werle is Professor of German and Internationa l Crimina l Law, Criminal Procedure and Modern Legal History at Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin and Director of the South African-German Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice. In addition, he is an Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape and Honorary Professor at North-West University of Political Science and Law (Xian, China).

Moritz Vormbaum received his doctoral degree in criminal law from the University of M?nster (Germany) and his postdoctoral degree from Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin. He is a Senior Researcher at Humboldt-Universit?t, as well as a coordinator and lecturer at the South African-German Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice.

Part I: Introduction.- 1. Creating an African Criminal Court.- 2. Historical and Political Background to the Malabo Protocol.- Part II: The Crimes in the Annex to the Malabo Protocol.- 3. Genocide (Article 28B), Crimes aglĂ`