Professor Sadat's book is a valuable "restatement" of international criminal law, discovering and delineating the process that led the United Nations from Nuremberg to the Rome Statute of an International Criminal Court.
"With the establishment of the International Criminal Court we enter an exciting era in the development of internatonal criminal law. This well written and thoroughly researched work provides a comprehensive and insightful analysis and critique of the Rome Statute and the impact of prosecuting war criminals" -- Justice Richard Goldstone
Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Leila Sadat is professor of law at Washington University. She was a delegate to the Diplomatic Conference at which the Court's Statute was adopted, and has participated in many of the Preparatory Committee and Preparatory Commission sessions. Professor Sadat is also a Commissioner, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.