This book demonstrates that, owing to the flexibility built into the legal frameworks, the law of international criminal evidence is often unpredictable and uncertain. To this end, it argues for the development of a coherent epistemic framework driven by two guiding principles: rectitude of decision and the highest standards of fairness.

Yvonne McDermott is Professor of Law at Swansea University in the United Kingdom. She is, from 2022-2027, Principal Investigator on TRUE, a large multidisciplinary project exploring trust in user-generated evidence. Previously, she led OSR4Rights, a project funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council which examined how open-source evidence has transformed human rights fact-finding. Yvonne is Legal Advisor to the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), an Associate Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, and Editorial Committee Co-Chair of the Journal of International Criminal Justice.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Principles of International Criminal Evidence


• 3: The Admission and Exclusion of Evidence


• 4: The Burden of Proof and Standards of Proof


• 5: The Evaluation of Different Forms of Evidence


• 6: Weighing the Evidence as a Whole


• 7: Proof on Appeal


• 8: Conclusion