The Law Reports of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (2 Vols.): Volume I: Prosecutor V. Brima, Kamara and Kanu (the Afrc Case) (Set of 2)

Charles C. Jalloh is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, U.S.A. He was formerly the Legal Advisor to the Office of the Principal Defender in the Special Court for Sierra Leone and first head of the OPD's Sub-Office in The Hague. His experience includes service as legal counsel in the Canadian Department of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and as a visiting scholar at the International Criminal Court. A member of the Ontario Bar, Canada, he has published widely in leading international law journals. He holds degrees from Guelph, McGill and Oxford Universities. Simon M. Meisenberg was formerly a Senior Legal Officer at the Special Court for Sierra Leone and is currently with the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. He has worked at the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He was also associated with the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at the Ruhr-University of Bochum. He studied law at the Universities in Trier, Bonn (Germany) and Lausanne (Switzerland) and is a qualified lawyer, having completed the First and Second Legal State Examination in Germany. He has published numerous articles on the Special Court for Sierra Leone and on international criminal law.

The book, which is only the first in a series of edited law reports that will capture the entire jurisprudential legacy of the tribunal, fills the gap for a single and authoritative reference source of the tribunal's jurisprudence.This volume, which consists of two books with a DVD and is edited by two legal experts on the Sierra Leone court, presents, for the first time in a single place, a comprehensive collection of all the interlocutory decisions and final trial and appeals judgments issued by the court in the case Prosecutor v. Brima, Kamara and Kanu. It contains the full text of all substantive judicial decisions, including the majority, separate and concurring as well as dissenting opinions. It additionally provides relevant information for a better understanding of the case, such as the indictments, a list of admitted exhibits and a list of documents on the case file.