• LLB (Cardiff)
• LLM (Nottingham)
• PhD (Nottingham

• Criminal Law (LLB)
• International Criminal Law (LLM)
• Public International Law (LLB and LLM)

• International law
• Criminal law

Current doctoral supervision

Professor Cryer is currently supervising three doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:

• Aut dedere aut judicare as a customary rule
• The UN member states and individuals sharing international responsibility for the serious violation of international law committed during peace support operations
• Is the new partial defence of loss of control the solution to the problems identified with provocation?

Books

• Research Methodologies in International and EU Law (Oxford: Hart, 2011) (forthcoming) 128pp. ISBN 9781841132358 (co authored with Tamara Harvey, Bal Sokhi-Bulley with support from Alexandra Bohm).
• An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure (Cambridge: CUP, 2nd ed., 2010) 618pp +lxvi ISBN 978-0-5211-11952-8(hb) ISBN 978-0-521-13581-8 (pb) with Elizabeth Wilmshurst, Håkan Friman and Darryl Robinson.
• The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice  (Oxford: OUP, 2009) 1,096pp, ISBN 978-0-19-923831-6 (hb), ISBN 978-0-19-923832-3 (pb) co editor, with Antonio Cassese (editor-in chief), and 15 others.
• The Tokyo International Military Tribunal: Judgment and Documents (Oxford: OUP, 2008), pp.1470 +lxxxiv, ISBN 978-0-19-954192-8, co editor (with Neil Boister).
• The Tokyo International Military Tribunal: A Reappraisal (Oxford: OUP, 2008) with Neil Boister 370pp + xvii, ISBN 978-0-19-927852-7, joint author.
• Prosecuting International Crimes: Selectivity in the International Criminal Law Regime (Cambridge: CUP, 2005) (360pp + xxviii).
• The International Criminal Court (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005) (524pp +xxv) joint editor with Olympia Bekou. ISBN 0-7546-2409-9.

Articles & Book Chapters

• ‘Philosophy and International Criminal Law’ in Alexander Orakhelashvili (ed.), Handbook of the Philosophy of International Law (London: Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2011)(20,000 words).
• ‘Darfur: Complementarity as the Drafters Intended?’ in Carsten Stahn and Mohamed el Zeidy (eds.), The International Criminal Court and Complementarity: From Theory to Practice(Cambridge: CUP, forthcoming 2010)(10,000 words).
• ‘The Legal Framework for Defending Transport Networks Against Terrorist Attack’ in Centre of Excellence, Defence Against Terrorism (COEDAT) (ed.), Transport Networks and Terrorism (Ankara: COEDAT, forthcoming 2010) (4,000 words)
• ‘The ad hoc Tribunals and Command Responsibility: A Quiet Earthquake’ in Shane Darcy (ed.),Judicial Creativity in International Criminal Tribunals (Oxford: OUP) 159-183 (forthcoming, 2010).
• ‘Röling in Tokyo: A Dignified Dissenter’ in (2010) 8 Journal of International Criminal Justice 1109-1126 reprinted in  Gerry Simpson, Timothy McCormack and Yuki Tanaka (eds), The Tokyo IMT After 60 Years (The Hague: Brill) (forthcoming 2010) (Japanese translation forthcoming 2011).
• ‘Drug Crimes and Money Laundering’ in William Schabas and Nada Bernaz (eds.), Handbook of International Criminal Law (London: Routledge) 179-192 (forthcoming 2010).
• ‘The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 and International Criminal Law: Backing Into the Future?’ (2010) 58 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 803-813 (with Paul David Mora).
• ‘International Criminal Law’ in Malcolm Evans (ed.), International Law (Oxford: OUP, 3rd ed, 2010) 753-783.
• ‘Human Rights and International Criminal Law’ in Daniel Moeckli, Sangeeta Shah, and Sandesh Sivakumaran, with David Harris (eds.), International Human Rights Law (Oxford: OUP, 2010) 540-559.
• ‘Case Concerning Certain Questions of Criminal Cooperation (Djibouti v France)’ (2010) 58International and Comparative Law Quarterly 193-205 (with Ioannis Kalpouzos).
• ‘The Interplay of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: The Approach of the ICTY’ (2009) 14Journal of Conflict and Security Law 511-527.
• ‘Royalism and The King: Article 21 of the Rome Statute and the Politics of Sources’ (2009) 12 New Criminal Law Review  390-405.
• ‘Commentary, East Timor Serious Panel Tribunal Judgments’, in Göran Sluiter and Andre Klip (eds.), Annotated Leading Cases of the International Criminal Tribunals: Volume XVI (Antwerp: Intersentia, 2009) 495-503.
• ‘Complementarity in Practice’ in Yan Ling (ed.), Making Peace Through Justice: Essays on the New Development of International Criminal Law  (Beijing: World Affairs Press, 2009) 49-71.
• ‘The Al Bashir Arrest Warrant Decision and the Definition of International Crimes’ (2009) 7 Journal of International Criminal Justice 283-296.
• ‘Prosecuting the Leaders: Promises, Politics and Pragmatics’ (2009) 1 Göttingen Journal of International Law 45-75.
• ‘The Doctrinal Foundations of International Criminalization’ in M. Cherif Bassiouni (ed.),International Criminal Law Volume I: Crimes (New York: Transnational, 3rd ed., 2008) 107-128.
• ‘An Overview of the Law on Terrorism’ and ‘The Future of Legal Aspects of Combating Terrorism’ in COEDAT (ed.), Law and Terrorism (The Netherlands, IOS Press, 2008) 15-22 and 141-8.
• ‘International Humanitarian Law’ and ‘Reprisals’ in Peter Cane and Joanne Conaghan (eds). The Oxford Companion To Law (Oxford: OUP, 2008) 614-6 and 1011-2.
• ‘The International Criminal Court and Its Relationship to Third States’ in Göran Sluiter and Carsten Stahn (eds.) The Emerging Practice of the International Criminal Court  (The Hague: Brill, 2008) 115-133.
• ‘Neither Here nor There? The Status of International Criminal Jurisprudence in the International and UK Legal Orders’ in Michael Bohlander and Kaiyan Kaikobad (eds) International Law and Power: Perspectives on Legal Order and Justice: Essays in Honour of Colin Warbrick  (The Hague: Brill, 2008) 183-206.
• ‘The Security Council and the International Criminal Court: An Uneasy Relationship?’  in M. Cherif Bassiouni, José Doria, Hans-Peter Gasser and Nikolai Jdanov (eds.), The Legal Regime of the International Criminal Court: Essays in Memory of Igor Blishchenko (The Hague: Brill, 2008) 457-486 (with Nigel White).
• ‘A Message From Elsewhere: Witnesses Before International Criminal Tribunals’ in Paul Roberts and Mike Redmayne (eds.), Innovations In Evidence Law (Oxford: Hart, 2007) 381-401 (an updated, revised and theorised version of no.30 below).
• ‘The Core Crimes and ICC Cooperation in England and Wales’ (2007) 5 Journal of International Criminal Justice 441-59 (jointly with Olympia Bekou).
• ‘Commentary: Prosecutor v Vasiljević’, in Göran Sluiter and Andre Klip (eds.), Annotated Leading Cases of the International Criminal Tribunals: Volume XI (Antwerp: Intersentia, 2007) 688-95.
• ‘The International Criminal Court and Universal Jurisdiction: A Close Encounter?’ (2007) 55International and Comparative Law Quarterly 49-68 (jointly with Olympia Bekou). 
• ‘Of Custom, Treaties, Scholars and the Gavel: The Impact of the International Criminal Tribunals on the ICRC Customary Study’ (2006) 11 Journal of Conflict and Security Law  239-263.
• Prosecutor v Galić  and the War Crime of Terror Bombing’ (2005-6) 2 IDF Law Review 73-102.
• ‘Commentary: ‘Special Court for Sierra Leone Constitutionality Decisions’ in Goran Sluiter and Andre Klip (eds.), Annotated Leading Cases of the International Criminal Tribunals: Volume IX(Antwerp: Intersentia, 2006) 56-62.
• ‘Sudan, Resolution 1593 and International Criminal Justice’ (2006) 19 Leiden Journal of International Law  195-222.
• ‘The Security Council and International Humanitarian Law’, in Susan Breau and Agnieszka Jachec-Neale (ed.), Testing the Boundaries of International Humanitarian Law (London: BIICL, 2006) 245-275.
• ‘The Use of Force Against Iraq, Do the Side Effects Justify the Means?’ (2006) 7 Theoretical Enquiries in Law  9-41 (jointly with Andrew Simester).
• ‘State Sovereignty vs International Criminal Law: Another Round?’ (Review Essay) (2005) 15European Journal of International Law 979-1000.
• ‘Aggression at the Court of Appeal’ (2005) 10 Journal of Conflict and Security Law  209-230.
• ‘Accountability in Post-Conflict Societies: A Matter of Judgment, Practice or Principle?’ in N.D. White (ed.), The United Nations and Human Rights Protection in Post-Conflict Situations  (Manchester: MUP, 2005) 267-289.
• ‘Superior Orders in the International Criminal Court’ in Nigel D. White, Richard Burchill and Justin Morris (eds.), Essays On Conflict and Security Law in Memory of Hilaire McCoubrey (Cambridge: CUP, 2005) 49-67.
• ‘Incitement’ and ‘Attempt’ in Dinah L. Shelton (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity (New York: Macmillan, 2004) 493-500 and 95-96, respectively.
• ‘General Principles of Liability in International Criminal Law’ in Dominic McGoldrick, Peter Rowe and Eric Donnelly (eds.), The International Criminal Court: Legal and Policy Issues (Oxford: Hart, 2004). 233-262.
• ‘Hague Law Comes Home: Prosecuting Weapons Offences at the International Criminal Court’ [2003] Acta Juridica 238-257 [reprinted in Adele Erasmus et al (eds.), Criminal Justice in a New Society (Cape Town: Juta, 2003)].
• ‘Witness Evidence in International Criminal Tribunals’ (2003) 3 The Law and Practice of International Tribunals 411-439.
• ‘The Security Council and the International Criminal Court: Who’s Feeling Threatened?’ (2002) 8Yearbook of International Peacekeeping 143-170 (jointly with Nigel D. White).
• ‘Human Rights and the Question of International Courts and Tribunals’ in Michael C. Davis, Wolfgang Dietrich, Bettina Scholdan and Dieter Sepp (eds.) International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World (New York: M.E Sharpe 2003) 60-79.
• ‘Terrorism and the International Criminal Court’ (2003) 82 Reform: Journal of the Australian Law Reform Commission 14-16, 70.
• ‘Déjà vu in International Law’ (Review Essay) (2002) 65 Modern Law Review 931-949.
• ‘Franckian Fairness and International Economic Law’ in Asif H. Qureshi (ed.), Perspectives in International Economic Law (The Hague: Kluwer, 2002). 211-233.
• ‘The Fine Art of Friendship: Jus in Bello  in Afghanistan’ (2002) 7 Journal of Conflict and Security Law 37-83.
• ‘Implementation of the International Criminal Court Statute in England and Wales’ (2002) 51International and Comparative Law Quarterly  733-743.
• ‘A ‘Special Court’ for Sierra Leone?’ (2001) 50 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 435-446.
• ‘The Boundaries of Liability in International Criminal Law, or ‘Selectivity by Stealth’’ (2001) 6 Journal of Conflict and Security Law  3-31 [reprinted in  G.J. Simpson (ed.), War Crimes: Library of Essays on Law and Legal Theory  (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004)].
• ‘Unilateral Enforcement of Resolution 687: A Threat too Far?’ (1999) 29 California Western International Law Journal 243-282 (jointly with Nigel D. White).
• ‘Commentary on the Rome Statute: A Cadenza for the Song of Those Who Died in Vain?’ (1998) 3Journal of Armed Conflict Law 271-286.
• ‘One Appeal, Two Philosophies, Four Opinions and a Remittal’ (1997) 2 Journal of Armed Conflict Law 193-208.
• ‘The Security Council and Article 39: A Threat to Coherence?’ (1996) 1 Journal of Armed Conflict Law 161-195.

Book Reviews 

• Heikelina Verrijn Stuart and Marlise Simons (eds.) ‘The Prosecutor and the Judge: Benjamin Ferencz and Antonio Cassese: Interviews and Writings’ Reviewed for (2010) 15 Journal of Conflict and Security Law  (forthcoming, 2,500 words).
• Myra Williamson, ‘Terrorism, War and International Law’ Reviewed for (2009) 14 Journal of Conflict and Security Law 383-389.
• Jack L. Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner, ‘The Limits of International Law’ Reviewed (as a short review essay entitled ‘The Limits of Objective Interests’) for (2006) 82 International Affairs 183-188.
• Christian Joerges and Navraj Singh Ghaliegh (eds.), ‘Darker Legacies of Law in Europe: The Shadow of National Socialism and Fascism Over Europe and its Legal Traditions’ Reviewed for (2006) 19 European Public Law 162-164.
• Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Dan Sarooshi (eds.) ‘Issues of State Responsibility Before International Tribunals’ Reviewed for (2005) 75 British Yearbook of International Law 540-541.
• Simon Halliday and Patrick Schmidt (eds.), ‘Human Rights Brought Home: Socio-Legal Perspectives on Human Rights in The National Context’ Reviewed for (2005) 5 Human Rights Law Review 195-198.
• A.P.V. Rogers, ‘Law on the Battlefield’ (2nd ed.) reviewed for (2005) 10 Journal of Conflict and Security Law 121-123.
• D Hirsch, ‘Law Against Genocide: Cosmopolitan Trials’ reviewed for (2004) 8 International Journal of Evidence and Proof 269-273.
• K. Dörmann, ‘Elements of War Crimes in the Rome Statute’ reviewed for (2004) 15 King’s College Law Journal  182-188.
• L. Reydams, ‘Universal Jurisdiction’ reviewed for (2004) 9 Journal of Conflict and Security Law 127-132.
• K. O’Donovan and G.R. Rubin (eds.), ‘Human Rights and Legal History’ reviewed for (2003) 3Human Rights Law Review  355-356.
• L. Zegveld, ‘The Accountability of Armed Opposition Groups in International Law’ reviewed for (2004) 53 International and Comparative Law Quarterly  278-280.
• 47 R. May and M. Wierda, ‘International Criminal Evidence’ reviewed for (2003) 7 International Journal of Evidence and Proof  216-219.
• L. Moir, ‘The Law of Internal Armed Conflict’ Reviewed for (2002) 7 Journal of Conflict and Security Law 140-144.
• G. Kirk-McDonald & O. Swaak-Goldman (eds.), ‘Substantive and Procedural Aspects of International Criminal Law’ reviewed for (2001) 6 Journal of Conflict and Security Law 289-292.
• C. Bell, ‘Human Rights and Peace Agreements’ reviewed for (2001) 1 Human Rights Law Review169-172.
• N.H.B. Jørgensen, ‘The Responsibility of States for International Crimes’ reviewed for (2001) 64Modern Law Review  650-655.
• A. Aust, ‘Modern Treaty Law and Practice’ reviewed for (2001) 64 Modern Law Review  149-150.
• M. Byers (ed.), ‘The Role of Law in International Politics: Essays in International Relations and International Law’ reviewed for (2000) 63 Modern Law Review  929-933.
• O. Triffterer (ed.), ‘Commentary on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court’ reviewed for (2000) 5 Journal of Conflict and Security Law 293-294.
• G.S. Goodwin-Gill & S. Talmon (eds.), ‘The Reality of International Law: Essays in Honour of Ian Brownlie’ reviewed for (2000) 63 Modern Law Review  631-632.
• M.C. Bassiouni, ‘Crimes Against Humanity in International Criminal Law’ reviewed for (2000) 5Journal of Conflict and Security Law 126-130.
• C. Antonopoulos, ‘The Unilateral Use of Force in International Law’ reviewed for (1999) 4 Journal of Armed Conflict Law  247-251.
• V. Morris & M.P. Scharf, ‘The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda’ reviewed for (1999) 4Journal of Armed Conflict Law 166-168.
• D. Warner (ed.), ‘Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: The Quest for Universality’ reviewed for (1998) 3 Journal of Armed Conflict Law 294-296.
• M. Osiel, ‘Mass Atrocity, Collective Memory and the Law’ reviewed for (1998) 3 Journal of Armed Conflict Law  291-294.
• S. Ratner & J. Abrams, ‘Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Criminal Law’ reviewed for (1998) 3 Journal of Armed Conflict Law 288-291.
• L. Sunga, ‘The Emerging System of International Criminal Law’ reviewed for (1998) 3 Journal of Armed Conflict Law 121-123.
• T.L.H. McCormack & G.J. Simpson (eds.), ‘The Law of War Crimes’ reviewed for (1997) 2 Journal of Armed Conflict Law 104-107.