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9 J. Int'l Crim. Just. 519 (2011)
Editorial

handle is hein.journals/jicj9 and id is 525 raw text is: Editorial The third issue of each year is a moment when we try to take stock of where we are and to where we are heading. We often find ourselves struggling to keep our fournal synchronized with our production schedule while respecting the page constraints rightly imposed by the publisher. Yet, we want to offer our readers an entertaining mix of comments on recent developments, reports of international and national cases dealing with international crimes, as well as articles which consider fundamental issues and contain general reflections on international criminal justice. As readers will understand, this process involves continuous negotiations and great effort is often needed to strike the right bal- ance between our desire and aspiration to cover all relevant developments in international criminal law and the need to preserve the red lines imposed on us by our understanding publisher. It is always our hope that taking every- thing into account, within the pages of the five issues of any given year, we manage to meet the expectations of readers, authors and our publisher. But this is a difficult balance to achieve and one that can never be taken for granted. In this issue of the journal, we are happy to present a symposium arising out of a conference held in Geneva in February last year. The speakers dwelt on the relationship between human rights and criminal law, in particular be- tween the European Convention on Human Rights and the jurisprudence of international courts and tribunals. judge Fran~oise Tulkens and Professor Robert Roth, the main organizers of the conference, have generously acted as editors for this symposium. In keeping with the policy recently inaugurated at the Journal to involve members of the editorial committee actively in editing symposia, they have received excellent support from Vanessa Thalmann in dealing with the special problems that arise when scholars from different lin- guistic and academic backgrounds are asked to collaborate. The editorial pro- vides us an opportunity to thank them for their work in organizing the conference and preparing the papers for publication. Human rights are at the core of international criminal law developments. Human rights law and international criminal law essentially share the same goal: the protection of human dignity However, their interaction is diverse and sometimes these two bodies of law do not necessarily point in the same direction or sing from the same hymn sheet. This symposium will hopefully present a clearer picture of the points of disagreement, provide inputs into the many different areas of this complex relationship and offer avenues for further reflection. Journal of International Criminal justice 9 (2011), 519-520 doi:10.1093/jicj/mqrO3O 0 Oxford University Press. 2011, All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com

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