TY - BOOK AU - Bikundo,Edwin TI - International criminal law: using or abusing legality? T2 - International and comparative criminal justice SN - 9781409438670 (hbk.) AV - KZ7000 BIK PY - 2014/// CY - Surrey PB - Ashgate KW - International criminal law N1 - Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Sydney, 2010); Includes bibliographical references and index; The responsibility to protect civilians from political violence : locating necessity between the rule and its exception -- International criminal law : from hostis to hostia humani generis -- Between necessity and contingency : representing legality as a faustian pact -- Global law : from force and law to aggression and legality -- The deficiencies of law before overwhelming violence -- A possible methodology of judicial discourse in marshalling, interpreting, and construing aggression clauses -- Exclusion and inclusion : from biopolitics to biolegality -- Abuse of legality : the illegal use of the legal -- Reframing criminal aggression from outside to inside law -- Legality and resolving ambiguity ER -