This book enquires into the counter-hegemonic capacity of international criminal justice. It highlights perspectives and themes that have thus far often been neglected in the scholarship on (critical approaches to) international criminal justice.

Can international criminal justice be viewed as a ‘counter-hegemonic’ project? And if so, under what conditions? In response to these questions, scholars and practitioners from the Global South and North reflect inter alia on the engagement with international criminal justice in the context of Ukraine, Palestine, and minorities in South-Asia while also highlighting the hegemonic tendencies built into the institutional structure of the International Criminal Court on the axes of gender and language.

Florian Jeßberger is Professor of Criminal Law and Director of the Franz von Liszt Institute for International Criminal Justice,  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Leonie Steinl is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Kalika Mehta is an Associate Researcher at the Franz von Liszt Institute for International Criminal Justice, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Chapter 1. Hegemony and International Criminal Justice – An Introduction.- Part I. Theoretical Engagements with (Counter-) Hegemonic Perspectives on International Criminal Justice.- Chapter 2. Is International Criminal Justice the Handmaiden of the Contemporary Imperial Project? A TWAIL Perspective on Some Arenas of Contestations.- Chapter 3. Violence in International Criminal Law and Beyond.- Chapter 4. A Marxist Analysis of International Criminal Law and Its Potential as a Counter-Hegemonic Project.- Part II. (Counter-) Hegemonic International Criminal Justice in Practice: Case Studies.- Chapter 5. Double Whammy: Targeted Minorities in South-Asian States.- Chapter 6. States of Criminality: International (Criminal) Law, Palestine, and the Sovereignty Trap.- Chapter 7. The Counter-Hegemonic Turn to ‘Entrepreneurial Justice’ in International Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions Relating to Crimes Committed in Syria and Eastern Ukraine.- Chapter 8. NGOs and the Legitimacy of International Criminal Justice: The Case of Uganda.- Part III. (Counter-) Hegemony at the International Criminal Court.- Chapter 9. The Global South and the Drafting of the Subject-Matter Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.- Chapter 10. The International Criminal Court and Traditional Islamic Legal Scholarship: Analyzing the War Crimes Against Civilians.- Chapter 11. The International Criminal Court’s Role in Countering Patriarchal Claims in Reproductive Justice.- Chapter 12. The Impact of English Language Hegemony at the International Criminal Court.- Chapter 13. Gender Imbalance at the International Criminal Court: The Continued Hegemonic Entrenchment of Male Privilege in International Criminal Law.