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Luise Müller, The Right to Punish: Political Authority and International Criminal Justice, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 184pp., $125.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781009378130.
Reviewed by R A Duff, University of Stirling
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is central to the enterprise of international criminal justice (ICJ). It claims the authority to try perpetrators of ‘the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole’, which ‘deeply shock the conscience of humanity’ and ‘threaten the peace, security and well-being of the world’ (the words of the Preamble to the Rome Statute that created the Court). Some of the cases that come before it come at the request or with the consent of a state that has national jurisdiction over the crime (for instance, the state in whose territory the crime was committed, or of which the alleged perpetrator is a citizen), but cases can be referred to it by the UN Security Council without…
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