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27 Eur. J. Crime Crim. L. & Crim. Just. 1 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/eccc27 and id is 1 raw text is: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CRIME, CRIMINAL LAW AND BRILL CRIMINAL JUSTICE 27 (2019) 1-11 NIJHOFF brill.com/ecd Editorial The Rule of Law and European Criminal Law in Interaction Nina Periak Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Institute for Criminal-Law Ethics and Criminology, Ljubljana, Slovenia nina.persak@criminstitute.org; nina.persak@pfuni-lisi Entangled History of Human Rights and International Criminal Justice In September 2018, a memorial service was held in Siracusa, Sicily for M. Cherif Bassiouni, who passed away on 25 September 2017 at the age of 79, two months shy of his 8oth birthday. According to his Wiki page, Bassiouni has been often referred to by the media as 'the Godfather of International Criminal Law',' an understandable nickname for a man who played a crucial role in the devel- opment of the Rome Statute and the establishment of International Criminal Tribunals.2 According to Benjamin B. Ferencz, former Chief Prosecutor for the * The third section of this editorial is partly drawing upon the author's text in N. Pergak and J. Strus (forthcoming), 'Rule of Law in the EU:Justice and Criminal Law Dimensions, Faculty ofLaw Yearbook - University ofLjubljana (2019). I Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._CherifBassiouni. 2 R. Lahti, 'Memories and personal reflections on M. Cherif Bassiouni, in J.L. de la Cuesta, R. Ottenhof andJ.F. Thony, eds., Cherif's Friends. In Memoriam (Siracusa: Nuova Grafica, 2018) pp. 44-45. Sadat recalls that Bassiouni chaired the drafting committee of the Rome Diplo- matic Conference that founded the International Criminal Court. L.N. Sadat, 'Remembering M. Cherif Bassiouni, in J.L. de la Cuesta, R. Ottenhof and J.F. Thony, eds., Cherif's Friends. In Memoriam (Siracusa: Nuova Grafica, 2018) at p. 74. ( KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2019 DOI 10.1163/15718174-02701001