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16 Int'l Crim. L. Rev. 561 (2016)
Otto Triffterer and Kai Ambos (eds.): The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: A Commentary

handle is hein.journals/intcrimlrb16 and id is 571 raw text is: Itrain INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW International • , •Criminal Law BRILL 16 (2016) 561-563 Review NIJHOFF brillcom/icla Book Review Otto Triffterer and Kai Ambos (eds.) The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: A Commentary, third edition (Munich, Oxford, Baden-Baden: C.H.Beck, Hart, Nomos, 2o16) ISBN 978-3-406-64854-0, pp. 2352. The Tiffterer Commentary was the first article-by-article commentary on the Statute of the International Criminal Court. It only appeared a year after the adoption of the Rome Statute in 1998. A second edition followed almost ten years later, in 2008. By now this commentary will be known - and most prob- ably valued - by every professional lawyer working in the field of international criminal law. Eight years since the second edition, international criminal law practitioners are blessed with a third edition, edited by Kai Ambos. The found- ing editor, Otto Triffterer, died on 1 June 2015, and this third volume is dedi- cated in his memory. Otto Triffterer was one of the most renowned experts on international criminal law, and he dedicated his professional life to the devel- opment of a permanent international criminal court. In his wisdom and fore- sight he entrusted Professor Kai Ambos with the editorial responsibility of the third edition, thereby ensuring that his legacy will be continued. Ambos, a Professor of criminal and international criminal law at Gottingen University and a criminal judge at the Gottingen District Court in Germany, without any doubt brings along the perfect credentials as one of the leading academics in this field to continue the tremendous task of editing a commentary on one of the most complex international conventions. The first two volumes have surely benefited from many authors that were participants of the Rome conference in 1998. For this new edition several com- mentaries of authors of this first generation have been revised, sometimes in their entirety, by new authors, ranging from renowned scholars to well-known practitioners. The third edition of the 7Kiffterer Commentary has been there- fore passed on to the next generation. This is also reflected in the shorter sub- title 'A Commentary', which substitutes the former and rather lengthy and ( KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2016 1 DOI 10.1163/15718123-01603007

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