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The Politics of International Criminal Law is an interdisciplinary collection of original research that examines the often noted but understudied political dimensions of International Criminal Law (ICL). As a nascent legal regime that seeks to regulate the longstanding power of states to manage war and crime, ICL faces challenges to its legitimacy, including disagreement over its aims and effectiveness; inequality in the work of its institutions; and opposition from dominant countries. The editors bring together eleven senior and emerging scholars and practitioners from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and North America to analyse these challenges from an illuminating range of theoretical and empirical perspectives. Taken together, the collection ultimately helps advance our understanding of the particularly charged relationship between law and politics in ICL.

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Because it provides varied insights rather than concrete conclusions, specialists in the international criminal lawfield, as well as those who teach relevant courses, will likely find the volume interesting, useful, and provocative. David P. Stewart, The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 116:2, 2022, pp. 469-473.

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Holly Cullen is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Western Australia. She has authored The Role of International Law in the Elimination of Child Labor (Brill/Nijhoff, 2007) and articles on international human rights law and international organisations. Philipp Kastner is a Senior Lecturer in International Law at the University of Western Australia. Publications include Legal Normativity in the Resolution of Internal Armed Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and, as editor, International Criminal Law in Context (Routledge, 2018). Sean Richmond is an Instructor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University who researches and teaches in international law and international relations. Prior to joining Carleton, he was the Special Advisor to Canada's Legal Adviser at the Department of Foreign Affairs.

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