Göttingen Studies
in Criminal Law and Justice

Göttingen Studies
in Criminal Law and Justice

Göttingen Studies
in Criminal Law and Justice

This book contains some of the papers that were presented at the first meeting of
the newly formed ‘African Expert Study Group on International Criminal Law’held in
September 2011 in Brussels, Belgium.1
The group was established under the auspices of the Multinational Development Policy Dialogue (hereinafter ‘MDPD’) and
the Rule of Law programme of the German Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (‘KAS’) in
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modeled on the successful sister group in Latin America. This latter group
was originally founded as an expert group to monitor the implementation of the
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (‘ICC’)3
in Latin America within
the framework of cooperation between KAS’ regional Rule of Law Programme
and the Department for Foreign and International Law of the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in 2002.
In 2006, the Latin American group was renamed ‘Latin-American Study Group on
International Criminal Law’, given its expanded focus. The Latin American group
presently has 21 members from 13 Latin-American States (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru,
Uruguay and Venezuela). It also has members from Germany, Spain, Italy as well
as a representative of the ICC.

Kai Ambos, Ottilia A. Maunganidze (Eds.)