Immunities, Crimes Against Humanity and other Topics in the 69th Session of the International Law Commission

Abstract

In 2013, the previous editor of the South African Yearbook of International Law, Professor Neville Botha, invited me to provide an annual contribution to the Yearbook on the work of the international Law Commission (hereinafter the Commission). The current contribution will be the fifth. It is my hope that this contribution provides readers of the Yearbook insight into the work of the Commission – insights that might not be easily obtained by readers of the Commission’s report, without being present at the commission’s sessions. from the 2018 volume onwards, The editors will ask other members of the commission to contribute their observations on the work of the commission.