Cover illustration: Children playing next to a sign in Timbuktu on January 31st 2013 which reads “The city of Timbuktu is founded on Islam and will only be judged by Islamic legislation (Sharia law)”. The image depicts one of several signs promoting Sharia law in Timbuktu following the city’s takeover by two rebel groups, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Ansar Dine. These groups established ‘Islamic Tribunals’ to enforce their own interpretations of Sharia law, often to the detriment of the civilian population. In analysing Al Hassan’s conviction by the International Criminal Court for his role in facilitating the work of the Islamic Tribunals, this book examines the circumstances under which the enforcement of rebel law by non-state courts can amount to the war crime of denying a fair trial. AFP Photo / Fred Dufour.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Thomsen, Matias author
Title: Using systemic integration to interpret war crimes at the International Criminal Court : from Vienna to Rome to Timbuktu / by Matias Thomsen.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Academic Publishers, Inc, 2025. |
Series: International humanitarian law series, 1389-6776 ; 74 | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2025013539 (print) | LCCN 2025013540 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004690035 hardback | ISBN 9789004690042 pdf
Subjects: LCSH: International Criminal Court | War crimes (International
law) | International criminal law | International criminal courts
Classification: LCC KZ7312 .T46 2025 (print) | LCC KZ7312 (ebook) | DDC 341.6/9‐‐dc23/eng/20250331
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2025013539
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2025013540
Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface.
ISSN 1389-6776
ISBN 978-90-04-69003-5 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-69004-2 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004690042
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