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The Character of International Law: A Festschrift for Rob Cryer

Edited by: Dr Emma J. Breeze, Mark Drumbl, Gerry Simpson, Marianne Wade

ISBN13: 9781509983377
To be Published: October 2025
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
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Professor Robert Cryer was a foundational voice in modern international criminal law. This book celebrates his character, his life, his work, and his influence.

The book is a Festschrift of love and admiration to a voice that is dearly missed. Fittingly, the book also continues to voice the many conversations that Rob started. It thereby doubles as a critical examination of the life of international law.

The book constellates 17 expertly-authored chapters nurtured by 4 editors through 5 distinctive sections, each of which reflects on the character of international law. These sections, presented as acts, are: discipline and borders, (re)imagination and continuity, violence and reckoning, acoustics and storytelling, and friendship and kindness.

A wide gamut of touchpoints dovetails into a beautifully eclectic medley. These include criminal law, the law of war, music and harm, gender-based violence, nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence, law after war, the crime of aggression, drones and targets, the domestication of international law, and the role of law in inter-state relations. The book journeys to many places, including Japan, Bosnia, and Ukraine, while reflecting on the role of teaching and mentorship in the life of international law.

Subjects:
International Criminal Law
Contents:
1. Introduction: To Remember and Smile, Emma J Breeze, Mark Drumbl and Gerry Simpson
2. Obituary for Rob, Gerry Simpson

Act I: Discipline and Borders
3. The Interplay between International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law: Rob Cryer's Contribution to the Understanding of War Crimes Law, Rogier Bartels
4. Limits to the Notion of General Principles of Criminal Liability in International Criminal Law: The Case of Individual Criminal Responsibility for Collective Criminality, Adrian Hunt
5. Laws of War as Part of English Law, Alexander Orakhelashvili

Act II: (Re)Imagination and Continuity
6. Envisioning International Criminal Justice, Paul Roberts
7. Rob Cryer and the Art of Teaching (International) Law, Raphael Oidtmann
8. Principle or Pragmatism?: Misogyny as Genocide, Marianne L Wade
9. Remaking the Tokyo Tribunal: Robert Cryer and the Revival of Scholarship on the Tokyo Trial, Neil Boister

Act III: Violence and Reckoning
10. Tribute to Rob: Selectivity in ICL, Elies van Sliedregt
11. Envisioning Targeted Killings and the Crime of Aggression in the Age of Autonomous Weaponry, Shagufta Sen
12. 'Prosecuting the Leaders': Reflection on the Prohibition and Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression in International Law, Stoyan Panov
13. Robert Cryer and the Jus Post Bellum, Javier S Eskauriatza

Act IV: Acoustics and Storytelling
14. Diving into Noise and Bringing Clear Melody, Agnieszka Jachec-Neale
15. Music and War: The Themes from Anti-War Music and the Impact They Have, Eoin Campbell
16. Tokyo IMT: Another Sequel to a Prequel, Mark Drumbl and Solange Mouthaan

Act V: Friendship and Kindness
17. A Fine Art of Friendship Revisited, Emma J Breeze and David Turns
18. Cryer, et seq: The Collegial Character of Legal Scholarship, James Lee
19. Rob and Bert in Tokyo, Sergey Vasiliev