Kai Ambos has been Professor of Law since 2003 and a district court judge since 2006. From 1991 to 2003, he was a senior research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) in charge of the International Criminal Law and Spanish-speaking Latin America sections. He has participated in the German negotiations on the creation of the ICC and later became a member of the expert group of the German Federal Ministry of Justice for implementing the Rome Statute. Since 2013 he has been the general director of the Centro de Estudios de Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal Latinoamericano (CEDPAL) at Göttingen University. He has worked extensively on human rights, drug-related issues and criminal law reform. He has written widely on international criminal law and procedure. He is the co-editor of the third edition of the Commentary on the ICC Statute (Beck/Hart/Nomos, 2016) and editor-in-chief of Criminal Law Forum.
Ambos has succeeded in producing a work that is supremely impressive - and not only in terms of sheer quantity. Based on his own numerous preliminary studies, he skilfully and knowledgeably draws an arc from the foundations of international criminal law and criminal theory to the details of the enforcement regime. His Treatise not only provides a stupendously comprehensive evaluation of the relevant publications on international criminal law to date, but is also a veritable treasure trove of original ideas on relevant issues in substantive and procedural law. * Thomas Weigend, Criminal Law Forum *