This book analyses how the complementarity regime of the ICC s Rome Statute can be implemented in member states, specifically focusing on African states and Nigeria. Complementarity is the principle that outlines the primacy of national courts to prosecute a defendant unless a state is unwilling or genuinely unable to act, assuming the crime is of a sufficient gravity for the International Criminal Court (ICC). It is stipulated in the Rome Statute without a clear and comprehensive framework for how states can implement it. The book proposes such a framework and argues that a mutually...
This book analyses how the complementarity regime of the ICC s Rome Statute can be implemented in member states, specifically focusing on African stat...