ABSTRACT

The newest incarnation of the practice of international criminal law is still a developing, dynamic legal process. It is comprised of judges, prosecutors and defence counsel from countries around the world who are the products of different cultures and legal traditions. It is made up of disparate courts which do not share the same system of substantive or procedural law. It has also been in existence for less than 20 years; relative infancy as compared to countries with legal philosophies and traditions that are centuries old.3 The assumption that this developing legal process is already a fair and essentially stable system is as premature as speculation that the system will never be a truly viable one. It is just too early to tell.