See also the research guides on International law and European law.

Databases

Annotated Leading Cases
Full-text of and comments on the most important decisions of the ICTY, ICTR, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the International Criminal Tribunal for Timor-Leste and the ICC by distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law.

The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law
Online edition of the encyclopaedia with peer-reviewed (1,700) articles on every aspect of public international law (history of public international law, criminal law, human rights law, economic law, and environmental law). Browse by subject. Oxford Law Citator available.

Nexis Uni
Database contains international law reviews and journals, case law, legal news, statutes and legislation, administrative codes and regulations, directories.

Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law (ICL)
Case summaries and indexes of leading international criminal law cases, together with the decisions themselves. As part of the Oxford Reports on International Law, ICL covers the main international tribunals: the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the Special Court for Sierra Leone. It also includes decisions from post-World War II military tribunals.

Journals

• Criminal Law Forum     
• International Criminal Justice Review
• International Criminal Law Review
• Journal of International Criminal Justice   
• Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals
• Leiden Journal of International Law 

See also the additional list of journals under Criminal law and the guide Legal literature - articles and journals.

(Text)books

• Cassese's International criminal law / A. Cassese (3rd ed. 2013)
• Comparative concepts of criminal law / ed. by J. Keiler, D. Roef (3rd ed. 2019)
• Convergences and divergences between international human rights, international humanitarian and international criminal law / ed. P. De Hert, S. Smis, M. Holvoet (2018)
• European criminal law: an integrative approach / A. Klip (4th ed. 2021)
• International criminal law (vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3) / ed. by M. C. Bassiouni (3rd ed. 2008)
• International criminal law (3 volumes) / ed. by W. Schabas (2012)
• International criminal law: cases and commentary / A. Cassese (2011)
• International criminal law: a critical introduction / A. Zahar, G. Sluiter (2008)
• International criminal law practitioner library series (vol. I, Vol. II, Vol. III) / G. Boas et al. (2007-2011)
• International criminal procedure: principles and rules / ed. G. Sluiter et al. (2013)
• An introduction to international criminal law and procedure / R. Cryer, D. Robinson, S. Vasiliev (4th ed. 2019)
• An introduction to the law of international courts and tribunals: a comparative study / G. Knoops (2nd ed. 2014)
• An introduction to transnational criminal law / N. Boister (2nd ed. 2018)
• The law and jurisprudence of the international criminal tribunals and courts : procedure and human rights aspects / V. Tochilovsky (2nd ed. 2014)
• The Oxford companion to international criminal justice / ed. A. Cassese (2009)
• The Oxford handbook of international criminal law / ed. K.J. Heller (2020)
• The Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court: analysis of the Statute, the rules of procedure and evidence, the regulations of the Court and supplementary instruments / by G.M. Pikis (2010)
• Treatise on international criminal law: Volume 1: Foundations and general part; Volume II: The crimes and sentencing; Volume III: International Criminal Procedure / K. Ambos (2014-2021)

See also the guide Legal literature - Books.

Books on international criminal law can be found in the library at call numbers EH and P.24 and P.43. Check the floor plan.

Commentaries

• Code of international criminal law and procedure / P. De Hert, M. Holvoet, J. Flamme, O. Struyven, eds. (2013)
• Convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide: a commentary / by Ch.J. Tams, L. Berster and B. Schiffbauer (2014)
• The International criminal court: a commentary on the Rome statute / W.A. Schabas (2nd ed. 2016)
• The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: a commentary (3 volumes) / ed. by A. Cassese, P. Gaeta, J.R.W.D. Jones (2002)
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: article-by-article commentary / edited by K. Ambos (4th ed. 2022)

Encyclopedias

• Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law

Case Law

• Annotated Leading Cases
• Cases of the UNESCO Committee on Conventions and Recommendations / L. Holmström (2019)
• Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law (ICL)
• Westlaw - International Administrative Materials: Multi-National (ICJ), Iran, Rwanda, Yugoslavia

 See also the websites of the tribunals for case law:

• Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)
• International Criminal Court (ICC)
• Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL)
• Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL)
• UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
• UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)

Legislation and treaties, Official documents

• Criminal Justice - European Commission
• ECLAN - European Criminal Academic Network
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
• United Nations Treaty Collection
• Westlaw - ICTY Basic Documents (INT-ICTY-BLD)

See also the guides for Legislation and treaties and Official documents.

Miscellaneous

• The Dutch criminal justice system - WODC
• International Criminal Courts for the Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone: A Guide to Online and Print Resources - Globalex
• International Criminal Law Research Projects - Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law