The course is dedicated to the study of international criminal tribunals and to the international criminal justice. The expression “international criminal law” indicates the groups of international norms which are aimed to define and sanction international crimes, to impose to the States the obligation of processing and punishing the authors of those crimes, to write the rules for the criminal process. The course will be focused on the history of international criminal courts - beginning from the Nuremberg Tribunal and Tokyo Tribunal, through the ad hoc Tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia, until the International Criminal Court (ICC) -, on the international crimes and the international sanctions, finally on the international criminal procedure.