The 2010 Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute empowered the International Criminal Court to prosecute the 'supreme crime' under international law: the crime of aggression. In light of the anticipated activation of the Court’s jurisdiction over this crime in 2017, The Crime of Aggression Library comprises the definitive resource for anyone concerned with the illegal use of force.

The Travaux Préparatoires of the Crime of Aggression contains a complete documentation of the fifteen years of negotiations which led up to the historic adoption of the Kampala amendments. Arranged chronologically, it includes all relevant official Chairman's drafts, non-papers, country proposals, meeting reports and summary records, as well as selected unpublished materials and transcripts from the dramatic negotiations at the Review Conference.

The newly published commentary provides, over two volumes, the first analysis of the history, theory, legal interpretation and future of the crime of aggression. As well as explaining the positions of the main actors in the negotiations, the authoritative team of leading scholars and practitioners set out exactly how countries have themselves criminalized illegal war-making in domestic law and practice.

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Courtesy of the Campaign for the Crime of Aggression Amendments. See the full timeline here.