Offering the first balanced and in depth analysis of the International Criminal Tribunals, the volume provides an important insight into what lessons have been learned, and how a deeper understanding of the successes and failures can benefit the international legal community in the future.

Writing crisply and making periodic comparisons with the antecedent criminal courts of the 1940s in Germany and Japan, they cover much ground. The outcome is a new and revisionist view of these two courts, giving them credit for some positive developments --D. P. Forsythe, emeritus, University of Nebraska, CHOICE