This module is a resource for lecturers

Core reading

This section provides a list of (mostly) open access materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.

Defining terrorism

• Weigend, Thomas (2006). " The Universal Terrorist: the International Community Grappling with a Definition." Journal of International Criminal Justice, vol. 4, pp. 912-932.
• Saul, Ben (2005). " Attempts to define 'terrorism' in international law." Netherlands International Law Review, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 57-83.
• Friedrichs, Jörd (2006). " Defining the International Public Enemy: The Political Struggle Behind the Legal Debate on International Terrorism." Leiden Journal of International Law, vol. 19, issue 1, pp. 69-91.
• Lord Carlile of Berriew QC (2007). The Definition of Terrorism . March. Cm 7052. (Including Table 1 overview of national definitions).

Criminal justice approach

• Partin, Gail (2015). " International Criminal Law." American Society of International Law, 1 April.
• Nagle, Luz E. (2010). " Should Terrorism Be Subject to Universal Jurisdiction?" Santa Clara Journal of International Law, vol. 8, Issue 1, pp. 87-100.

Treaty-based crimes of terrorism

• Piera, Alejandro and Michael Gill (2014). " Will the New ICAO-Beijing Instruments Build a Chinese Wall for International Aviation Security?" Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 145-237.
• Liput, Andrew L. (1995). " An Analysis of the Achille Lauro Affair: Towards an Effective and Legal Method of Bringing International Terrorists to Justice." Fordham International Law Journal, vol. 9, issue 2, pp. 328-372.
• Saul, Ben (2009). " The Emerging International Law of Terrorism." Indian Yearbook of International Law and Policy, pp. 163-192, Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 10/108.
• Joyner, Christopher C. (2007). " Countering Nuclear Terrorism: A Conventional Approach." European Journal of International Law,vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 225-251.
• Friedrichs, Jorg (2006). " Defining the International Public Enemy: The Political Struggle behind the Legal Debate on International Terrorism." Leiden Journal of International Law, vol. 19, issue 1, pp. 69-91.
• Bassiouni, M. Cherif (2002). " Legal Control of International Terrorism: A Policy-Oriented Assessment." Harvard International Law Journal, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 83-103.
• Cassese, Antonio (2006). " The Multifaceted Criminal Notion of Terrorism in International Law." Journal of International Criminal Justice, vol. 4, issue 5, pp.933-958.
• Weigend, Thomas (2006). " The Universal Terrorist: the International Community Grappling with a Definition." Journal of International Criminal Justice, vol. 4, issue 5, p. 912-932.
• Saul, Ben (2005). " Definition of "Terrorism" in the UN Security Council: 1985-2004." Chinese Journal of International Law, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 141-166.
• Sorel, Jean-Marc (2003). " Some Questions about the Definition of Terrorism and the Fight against Its Financing." European Journal of International Law,vol. 14, no. 2, p. 365-378.

Core international crimes

• Ambos, Kai (2011). " Judicial Creativity at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Is There a Crime of Terrorism under International Law?" Leiden Journal of International Law, vol. 24, issue 3, pp. 655-675.
• Di Filippo, Marcello (2008). " Terrorist Crimes and International Co-operation: Critical Remarks on the Definition and Inclusion of Terrorism in the Category of International Crimes." European Journal of International Law, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 533-570.
• Bergsmo, Morten, Mads Harlem and Nobuo Hayashi, eds. (2010). Importing Core International Crimes into National Law , 2nd ed. Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian law. Oslo: Torkel Opsahl Academic Epublisher.
• Edwards, Holli (2017). " Does International Law Apply to the Islamic State." Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
• Coman, Kenny (2017). " Prosecuting Crimes of International Concern: Islamic State at the ICC?" Utrecht Journal of International and European Law, vol. 33, no. 84, pp. 120-145.
• Chertoff, Emily (2017). " Prosecuting Gender-Based Persecution: The Islamic State at the ICC." The Yale Law Journal, vol. 126, no. 4, pp. 1050-1117.
• Lawless, Michael (2007-08). "Terrorism: An International Crime." Canadian Military Journal,vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 27-39.
• Bensouda, Fatou (2015). " ICC: Statement of the Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, on the Alleged Crimes Committed by ISIS." The Hague Justice Portal, 8 April.

International courts and tribunals

• Van der Wilt, Harmen, and Inez Braber (2013-14). " The Case for Inclusion of Terrorism in the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court." Amsterdam Centre for International Law, no. 2014-13, p. 8.
• Hoyos, Mateo C. (2017). " Including the Crime of Terrorism within the Rome Statute: Likelihood and Prospects." Global Politics Review, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 25-38.
• Proulx, Vincent-Joël (2003). " Rethinking the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in the Post-September 11th Era: Should Acts of Terrorism Qualify as Crimes against Humanity?" American University International Law Review, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 1009-1089.
• Brennan, Anna Marie (2015). " Prosecuting ISIL before the International Criminal Court: Challenges and Obstacles." American Society of International Law, vol. 19, no. 21.
• Aslan, Muzaffer Y. (2005). " The Role of International Criminal Law in the Global War on Terrorism." Ankara Law Review, vol. 2, no. 1, pp 1-48.
• Labuda, Patrick I. (2017). " The African Union's Collective Withdrawal from the ICC: Does Bad Law make for Good Politics?" EJI L: Talk!, 15 February.

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