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The Corpus
Research& Publications
Two decades of scholarship on the International Criminal Court, African geopolitics, and the architecture of international criminal justice — assembled below in books, chapters, and essays.
Magnum Opus · 2017
Selective Enforcement and International Criminal Law
The ICC and Africa
A definitive scholarly intervention into one of international law's most contested questions: is the International Criminal Court systematically biased against Africa?
- Publisher
- Intersentia · Cambridge University Press
- Series
- Supranational Criminal Law · Volume 20
- ISBN
- 9781780683874
- Year
- 2017
Cite
Supranational Criminal Law · Volume 20
Selective Enforcement and International Criminal Law
The ICC and Africa
James Nyawo
Intersentia · Cambridge University Press
Routledge · 2023
Africa and the Rome Statute System
co-edited volume
2023
Africa and the Rome Statute System
Continuity, Critique, Reform (co-edited)
A co-edited volume convening African jurists and scholars around the next twenty years of the Rome Statute system.
African Perspectives on International Criminal Justice
Chapters & Conference Papers
Selected Contributions
- 2021
Prosecuting Omar al-Bashir: The ICC, Sudan, and the Limits of Universal Jurisdiction
in K. Heller (ed.), The Bashir Indictments (University of Copenhagen Press)
- 2019
African States and the Rome Statute at 21: Withdrawal, Renewal, or Rupture?
Copenhagen Symposium on the 21st Anniversary of the Rome Statute
- 2016
Complementarity, Capacity, and the Malabo Protocol
Journal of International Criminal Justice · vol. 14
- 2015
Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict African Societies
KU Leuven Summer Course on Human Rights & Transitional Justice
Essays & Public Writing
Recent Articles
2024
Re-membering Mother Africa: A Generational Project
The Elephant
2023
The ICC at Twenty: An African Audit
African Journal of International Law
2022
Humanitarianism Without Sovereignty
Forced Migration Review
2019
Why Africa Should Not Leave the ICC — Yet
African Arguments
The Scholar at Work
Research grounded in the rooms where law is argued.
Every monograph, chapter, and article begins in conversation — with diplomats, jurists, and the institutions tasked with shaping international law. This image captures Dr. Nyawo at the Foreign Service Academy, where scholarship is tested in the seminar room before it reaches the page.
Dr. Nyawo during a Foreign Service Academy lecture on diplomacy and international criminal justice.
“Selective enforcement is not a flaw of the Court; it is the price of a system built without Africa at the drafting table.”