This research advances the field of international criminal justice by proposing a holistic framework to organize legal pluralism within the emerging four-tiered justice paradigmâdomestic, hybrid, regional, and international courts. It shifts the focus from universalism to contextual organizing principles, introducing the concept of âsystem of justiceâ to better navigate overlapping jurisdictions. The study argues that regionalism is not a threat but a vital asset to international criminal justice, and it calls for a move beyond the ICCâs narrow complementarity criteria. By promoting principles like collaboration, deference and division of labour, it reimagines complementarity through a more inclusive, functional and cooperative lens.
Seun Solomon Bakare, Ph.D. (2024) Leiden University, is an academic and a legal practitioner in the fields of human rights, international criminal law and global justice. He has guest-lectured at universities across Europe, Africa and North America, and has published two books and over thirty articles in various fields of international law. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Columbia Law School in New York.
This book will interest academic institutes, libraries, postgraduate students, practitioners, and specialists in international law, human rights, transitional justice, criminal law, regional courts, and global governance.