This volume offers an overview of all aspects of mens rea before the International Criminal Court, while taking into account mens rea standards that have already been established in customary international law or before the ad hoc tribunals.

Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops (1960) is Professor of Politics of International Law at the University of Amsterdam and visiting Professor of International Criminal Law at Shandong University (Jinan, China). He holds two Ph.D. degrees, one in criminal law (University of Leiden) and one in international criminal law (University of Ireland). He practices as a lawyer in (inter)national criminal law at Knoops' International Lawyers in Amsterdam. He is lead-counsel in the case of The Prosecutor v. Charles Blé Goudé before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.