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Criminal Law Forum (2005) 16: 103–106 Springer 2005 DOI 10.1007/s10609-005-7028-z Book Review JEREMY SARKINw JUSTICE FOR SERIOUS INTERNATIONAL CRIMES Reviewing: Mark Lattimer and Philippe Sands, eds., Justice for Crimes against Humanity, Oxford: Hart, 2003, 528 pp. The field of international criminal justice has exploded in terms of developments over the last decade or so. At the same time there has been a vast output of literature simply to keep up with and to comment on these advances.1 This book is one of the most important contri- butions to the understanding of recent developments around issues relating to international as well as domestic criminal justice, from both a policy and a moral point of view. The title of the book does not, however, fully describe its contents as its focus is neither solely nor mostly on the issues around crimes against humanity, but in fact it deals with all the major international crimes, including genocide, war crimes, torture, etc. What the book does, in its great variety of chapters written by an extensive range of authors from varying backgrounds w Senior Professor of Law, Law Faculty, University of the Western Cape, South Africa; BA, LLB (Natal), LLM (Harvard), LLD (UWC); attorney of the High Court of South Africa, attorney at law in the State of New York, USA. 1 G. J. BASS, STAY THE HAND OF VENGEANCE: THE POLITICS OF WAR CRIMES TRIBUNALS (2000); C. DE THAN E. SHORTS, INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS (2003); R. GELLATELY B. KIERNAN, THE SPECTRE OF GENOCIDE: MASS MURDER IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (2003); S. JOHNSON, PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE: HEGEMONIC INSTABILITY OR INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW? (2003); S.R. RATNER J.S. ABRAMS, ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ATROCITIES IN