Über den Autor Ambos Kai
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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.
