This is the third volume in the series Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law: Correlating Thinkers (2018), Foundational Concepts (2019), and Legally-Protected Interests (2022).

This first edition of Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law: Correlating Thinkers contains 20 chapters about renowned thinkers from Plato to Foucault. As the first volume in the series "Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law", the book identifies leading philosophers and thinkers in the history of philosophy or ideas whose writings bear on the foundations of the discipline of international criminal law, and then correlates their writings with international criminal law.

This second volume in the series 'Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law' zooms in on some of the foundational concepts or principles of the discipline of international criminal law, with a view to exploring their Hinterland beyond the traditional doctrinal discourse. It contains eight chapters on concepts such as sovereignty, global criminal justice, international criminal responsibility for individuals, punishment, impunity and truth. Among the authors in this book are Christoph Burchard, Christopher B. Mahony, Milinda Banerjee, CHAO Yi, Javier Dondé-Matute, Barrie Sander, Max Pensky and Shannon E. Fyfe. The first volume in the series - Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law: Correlating Thinkers - correlates the writings of leading philosophers with international criminal law, including chapters on Plato, Cicero, Ulpian, Aquinas, Grotius, Hobbes, Locke, Vattel, Kant, Bentham, Hegel, Durkheim, Gandhi, Kelsen, Wittgenstein, Lemkin, Arendt and Foucault. A third volume - Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law: Legally Protected Interests - discusses the main values protected by the discipline and which should be added. These books do not develop or promote a particular philosophy or theory of international criminal law. Rather, they see philosophy of international criminal law as a discourse space, which includes a) correlational or historical, b) conceptual or analytical, and c) interest- or value-based approaches.

Two central questions are at the core of international legal theory: 'What is international law?', and 'Is international law really law?' This volume examines these critical questions and the philosophical foundations of modern international law using the tools of Anglo-American legal theory and western political thought. Engaging with both contemporary and historical legal theory and with an analysis of international law in action, the book builds an understanding and theory of law from the perspective of those who actually use this legal system and understand it, rather than constructing an artificial system from the standpoint of political scientists and moral philosophers. Law at the Vanishing Point provides a fascinating new challenge to those who reduce international law either to ethics or to politics and provides a critical new appraisal of its power as an independent force in human social relations.

1. Rights, Individuals, and States; 2. An Interest-based Justification for the Right to Punish; 3. Extraterritorial Jurisdiction over Municipal Crimes; 4. A Theory of International Crimes; 5. Extraterritorial Jurisdiction over International Crimes; 6. Legitimate Authority and Extraterritorial Punishment; 7. Conclusion.