Rustam Atadjanov is an Associate Professor of Law at KIMEP University, School of Law in Almaty, Kazakhstan. This is his first textbook for T.M.C. Asser Press; in 2019 his monograph entitled Humanness as a Protected Legal Interest of Crimes against Humanity - Conceptual and Normative Aspects was published in the ICJ Series, while in 2022 both as an editor and an author he contributed to the edited volume International Conflict and Security Law - A Research Handbook.