Edited by Margaret M. deGuzman, Professor of Law, Temple University, Beasley School of Law, and Edited by Diane Marie Amann, Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law, University of Georgia School of Law

Margaret M. deGuzman is Professor of Law at Temple University's Beasley School of Law. Professor deGuzman is a prolific scholar and internationally recognized expert in international criminal law and transitional justice. She lectures and serves on expert groups around the world, focusing in particular on issues related to the International Criminal Court and justice in Africa.

Diane Marie Amann holds the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, where she is also a Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center. Professor Amann is a globally recognised scholar in public international law and transnational law, with a particular emphasis on criminal justice. She serves as the International Criminal Court Prosecutor's Special Adviser on Children in and affected by Armed Conflict.

Hirad Abtahi is the First Legal Adviser, Head of the Legal and Enforcement Unit, at the Presidency of the International Criminal Court.

Diane Marie Amann is the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia School of Law.

Sandra L. Babcock is Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and Faculty Director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide.

M. Cherif Bassiouni is Emeritus Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law; Honorary President, The Siracusa Institute formerly the International Institute for Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences; and Honorary President, L'Association Internationale de Droit Pénal.

Tess Borden was researcher for the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions from 2011 through 2013. She is currently the 2015-2017 Aryeh Neier Fellow at Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union.

Marc Bossuyt is a Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), emeritus professor of the University of Antwerp, emeritus president of the Constitutional Court of Belgium, member of the Committee on the elimination of racial discrimination, former Chairman of the UN Commission (1989) and the UN Sub-Commission (2006) on human rights, former special rapporteur (1985-1987) of the Sub-Commission on an analysis concerning the proposition to elaborate a Second Optional Protocol.

Kathleen Cavanaugh is a lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway, Ireland.

Joshua Castellino is Professor of Law & Dean of the School of Law, as well as the Business School at Middlesex University, London.

Andrew Clapham is Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

Roger S. Clark is Board of Governors Professor, Rutgers University School of Law.

Thomas A. Cromwell is Justice, Supreme Court of Canada.

Shane Darcy is a Senior Lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway.

Emmanuel Decaux is Professor Emeritus at the University Panthéon-Assas and Paris II member and former President of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances.

Margaret M. deGuzman is Professor of law at Temple University's Beasley School of Law.

Mireille Delmas-Marty is a Member, Institut de France Professor Emerita, Collège de France de Paris.

Adama Dieng is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide. He is also a former Registrar of the UNICTR and former Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists.

Mark A. Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University, School of Law.

Bruno Gélinas-Faucher is Law Clerk, Supreme Court of Canada.

Paola Gaeta is Professor of International Law and International Criminal Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

Jérémie Gilbert is Professor of International and Comparative Law, University of East London (UK).

Christof Heyns was the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions from 2010 through 2016, and was head of the UN Independent Investigation on Burundi in 2016. He is currently a member of the UN Human Rights Committee and is Professor of Human Rights Law at the University of Pretoria.

Charles Chernor Jalloh is Professor of Law, Florida International University, and a member of the International Law Commission.

Wayne Jordash QC is an international human rights and humanitarian lawyer and founding partner of Global Rights Compliance.

Frédéric Mégret is Associate-Professor, Dawson Scholar, Faculty of Law, McGill University.

Geoffrey Nice has practiced as a barrister since 1971 and worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

Mary Ellen O'Connell holds the Robert and Marion Short Chair in Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School.

Alain Pellet is Emeritus Professor at the University of Paris Nanterre; former Chairperson of the UN International Law Commission; the President of the French Society for International Law and a Member of the Institut de Droit International. Counsel and Advocate before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and arbitral tribunals in more than 60 cases; Arbitrator in investor-State.

Thomas Probert was a Research Consultant to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions from 2013 through 2016. He is currently the Head of Research of 'Freedom from Violence', an international research collaboration based at the University of Pretoria, and a Research Associate at the Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge.

Leila Nadya Sadat is the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law and Director of the Whitney R Harris World Law Institute at Washington University School of Law. Sadat is the Special Adviser to the ICC Prosecutor on Crimes Against Humanity and Director of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, a multi-year project aiming at elaborating and adopting a new global treaty on crimes against humanity.

Emma Sandon is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Birkbeck, University of London, and a research fellow to the Chair for Social Change, University of Johannesburg.

Carsten Stahn is Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice, Leiden University.

Beth Van Schaack is the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Stanford Law School and Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Security & Cooperation at Stanford University.

Nevenka Tromp is Lecturer in East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands, and was a member of the Leadership Research Team at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

Philippa Webb is Reader (Associate Professor) in Public International Law at King's College London and a barrister at 20 Essex Street Chambers.

Zhao Bingzhi is Dean of the College for Criminal Law Science of Beijing Normal University, Distinguished Professor under the Chang Jiang Scholars Program, Ph.D. in Law, Supervisor for Ph.D. Candidates, President of the Criminal Law Research Association of China, Vice-President of the International Association of Penal Law ('AIDP') and President of the AIDP Chinese National Group.