This is the title of a paper by Professors Stephanos Bibas and William Burke-White just posted on SSRN. For readers with an interest in international criminal law this is a must read. In their paper, Bibas and Burke-White, inter alia, argue that scholarship dealing with international criminal law has to a large extent overlooked procedural issues. Moreover, the authors argue, which is a very valid and often ignored point, that international criminal law as a discipline is suffering from idealistic aspirations (something which will sound familiar to critics of Moreno-Ocampo). The authors also examine how international criminal law may learn…
