This course explores the making, contestations and unmaking of the international criminal law with a focus on the concepts, principles, core tenets and politics of international criminal justice. By exploring the principles and challenges with international criminal justice in the contemporary period we will explore the spheres of engagement, contestations (feminist & the third world), forms of instrumentalism and affective expressions that are part of it. The class offers students an opportunity to learn about and critically reflect on the processes and purposes of law making and to explore the processes, politics, and ethics by which law is made and justice determined historically and in the contemporary period.