Table of Contents

Foreword (Theodor Meron)

Preface (Hirad Abtahi and Gideon Boas)

Abbreviations

I History

1. Reflections on the Ambiguous Universality of Human Rights: Cyrus the Great's Proclamation as a Challenge to the Athenian Democracy's Perceived Monopoly on Human Rights (Hirad Abtahi)

II. Proceedings

2. The Right to Self-Representation in International and Domestic Criminal Law – Limitations and Qualifications on that Right (Gideon Boas)

3. The Protection of States' National Security Interests in Cases before the ICTY: A Descriptive and Prescriptive Analysis of Rule 54bis of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence (Grant Dawson and Mieke Dixon)

4. Procedural Innovations in War Crimes Trials (Geoffrey Nice and Philippe Vallières-Roland)

5. Fair but Expeditious Trials (Patrick L. Robinson)

6. The Protection of, and Assistance to, Witnesses at the ICTY (David Tolbert and Frederick Swinnen)

III. Subject matter

7. Self-Defence in International Criminal Law (Timothy L. L. McCormack)

8. Striving for Definition: The Law of Persecution from its Origins to the ITCY (Ken Roberts)

Sir Richard May: A Personal Reflection

Index