Review from previous edition Ambos has succeeded in producing a work that is supremely impressive - and not only in terms of sheer quantity. Based on his own numerous preliminary studies, he skilfully and knowledgeably draws an arc from the foundations of international criminal law and criminal theory to the details of the enforcement regime. His Treatise not only provides a stupendously comprehensive evaluation of the relevant publications on
international criminal law to date, but is also a veritable treasure trove of original ideas on relevant issues in substantive and procedural law.
Kai Ambos holds the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Law, International Criminal Law and Public International Law at the Georg-August-University (GAU) Göttingen, Germany. He served as a Judge at the Provincial Court (Landgericht) of Lower Saxony in Göttingen from March 2006 to February 2017 (from January 2015 to September 2015 delegated to the Appeals Court (Oberlandesgericht) Braunschweig); and was appointed Judge at the Kosovo
Specialist Chambers (KSC), The Hague, in February 2017. In December 2017 he was appointed as Advisor (Amicus Curiae) to the Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace. He is Director of the "Centro de Estudios de Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal Latinoamericano" (CEDPAL) of GAU, life member of Clare Hall College,
Cambridge, and external member of the Law Faculty of the University of Lisbon.