By interrogating how international criminal tribunals relate to their domestic counterparts through the principle of complementarity, International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability advocates for improved institutional design and less deference toward states to strengthen the enforcement of international criminal law.

Patryk I. Labuda is a Swiss National Science Foundation Fellow at the University of Zürich. He was previously an Assistant Professor of (International) Criminal Law at the University of Amsterdam. He holds a Ph.D. in international law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: The (Positive) Complementarity Turn in International Criminal Justice


• 3: Institutional Design: Regulating Relations between States and International Criminal Tribunals


• 4: International Intervention and Domestic Prosecutions


• 5: International Intervention and Capacity Building


• 6: International Intervention and Norm Internalisation


• 7: In the Court's Shadow: Maximising Accountability in Unwilling or Unable States


• 8: Epilogue. Interrogating the Ideology of (Positive) Complementarity: Should the Future of International Criminal Justice Be Domestic?