International Criminal Law Founders

International Criminal Law Founders gathers the jurists whose work founded and shaped international criminal law as its own distinct field: the legal architects of the Nuremberg principle that individuals, not only states, can be held criminally responsible under international law, and the drafters and early theorists of the modern international criminal law that led to the 1998 Rome Statute and the International Criminal Court. Distinct from the ad hoc and permanent international criminal tribunal judges grouped in this atlas's own separate International and Supranational Court Judges subcategory, this group's members are the scholars and drafters who built the legal doctrine those judges apply rather than judges who applied it themselves.