Yvonne McDermott, Senior Lecturer in Law, Bangor University

Yvonne McDermott is Senior Lecturer in Law at Bangor University, Wales, where she is also Co-Director of the Bangor Centre for International Law.

"Yvonne McDermotts Fairness in International Criminal Trials expounds, in a concrete and thorough manner, on the content of the standard of fairness that the international criminal trials ought to espouse...This book holds particular interest for international criminal law scholars." - Gaiane Nuridzhanian, Journal of International Criminal Justice

"Fairness in International Criminal Trials is essential reading for students of international criminal law as well as practitioners before international criminal tribunals. With an excellent balance between general analysis and a more technical study, this book speaks to the specialists of the field, and to all those who seek to understand how international criminal justice works, what the limits of this system are, and how the judges of international criminal tribunals can guarantee the prosecution of heinous crimes maintaining the highest standards of fairness." - Ilaria Zavoli, Leiden Journal of International Law

"Fairness in International Criminal Trials expounds, in a concrete and thorough manner, on the content of the standard of fairness that the international criminal trials ought to espouse." - Gaiane Nuridzhanian, Journal of International Criminal Justice

"This book is essential reading for students of international criminal law and those with a broader interest in fair trial rights, and I have no doubt that it will be an important reference work for practitioners and judges in international criminal tribunals for many years to come." - From the foreword by Judge Christine Van den Wyngaet, International Criminal Court

"A comprehensive and fascinating assessment of the jurisprudence emerging from the international criminal tribunals. The author's analysis of when a trial should be regarded as unfair is particularly valuable." - Joshua Rozenberg QC, Presenter, Law in Action (BBC Radio 4)