Dr Christopher Soler, Director (Legal ¸£ÀûÔÚÏßÃâ·Ñ), called on Professor Alfred J. Vella, and presented a copy of his book titled ‘The Global Prosecution of Core Crimes under International Law’ to the Rector. The book, an updated and revised version of his Ph.D. which is published by T.M.C. Asser Press of The Hague and Springer-Verlag of Berlin, contains a foreword by Professor Salvatore Zappalà , Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Criminal Justice.
The publication deals with the prosecution of core crimes and constitutes the first comprehensive analysis of the horizontal and vertical systems of enforcement of international criminal law and of their inter-relationship. It provides a global jurisprudential exposition in assessing the grounds for refusal of surrender to the International Criminal Court and of extradition to another State. It also offers insights into legal perspectives which improve the prevailing enforcement regimes of various models of criminal justice, including hybrid criminal tribunals, special criminal courts, judicial panels and partnerships, and other budding sui generis judicial and/or prosecutorial institutions.
The book espouses a human rights law-oriented critique to the enforcement of domestic, regional and international criminal justice and is aimed at legal practitioners (prosecutors, defence lawyers, magistrates and judges), criminal justice experts, penologists, legal researchers, human rights activists and law students.
More information on the book can be found on and on the .
Dr Soler lectures Maltese criminal law, international criminal law, public international law and victimology at the University of Malta. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands in December 2017.
