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Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024. Matt Killingsworth is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Tasmania. His current research focuses on the history of the laws of war and the evolution of international criminal justice. He previously co-edited the volume Violence and the State (Manchester University Press, 2016) and served as Chair of the Tasmanian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Committee. Tim McCormack is Professor of International Law at the University of Tasmania and the Special Adviser on War Crimes to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Professor McCormack is the Editor of Brill Nijhoff's International Humanitarian Law Series and has published extensively on IHL and the prosecution of war crimes. His recent publications include Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law (Cambridge University Press, 2019, co-edited with Suzannah Linton and Sandesh Sivakumaran), Australia's War Crimes Trials 1945–1951 (Brill Nijhoff, 2016) and the Routledge Handbook of the Law of Armed Conflict (Routledge, 2016, co-edited with Rain Liivoja)