Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher

The Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher (TOAEP) is an academic publisher specializing in international law and policy. Established in 2010, it is named after the late European international lawyer Torkel Opsahl (1931-1993). TOAEP originally grew out of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) as a research project. It is owned by the Centre for International Law Research and Policy (CILRAP), an independent international research centre incorporated in Brussels, Belgium, but it has editorial independence. TOAEP also works out of the CILRAP Bottega in Florence, Italy.

TOAEP was the first academic e-publisher in international law, publishing both in print and freely online, and the first publisher to be certified by the Digital Public Goods Alliance, along with its full catalogue. It has five publication series in international criminal and humanitarian law, and other areas of international law, which are all available online and may be downloaded free of charge. Its publications can also be accessed through the award-winning ICC Legal Tools Database and Lexsitus.

TOAEP's Editor-in-Chief is Morten Bergsmo, and it draws on an international team of editors and editorial assistants, prominently among them the Italian lawyer Antonio Angotti. TOAEP has published more than 865 authors from around the world. There have been more than 50 reviews of TOAEP books in international journals and yearbooks since 2010. TOAEP has more than 40,000 subscribers to its new publications.

Some books published by TOAEP
The Publications Series


 * Commentary on the Law of the International Criminal Court: The Rules of Procedure and Evidence, 2023, 977 pp.
 * Commentary on the Law of the International Criminal Court: The Statute Volume 2, 2023, 1122 pp.
 * Commentary on the Law of the International Criminal Court: The Statute Volume 1, 2023, 1097 pp.
 * Interviewing and Interrogation: A Review of Research and Practice Since World War II, 2023, 585 pp.
 * Religion, Hateful Expression and Violence, 2023, 1146 pp.
 * Colonial Wrongs and Access to International Law, 2020, 652 pp.
 * Quality Control in Criminal Investigation, 2020, 1108 pp.
 * A Theory of Punishable Participation in Universal Crimes, 2018, 744 pp.
 * Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law: Legally-Protected Interests, 2022, 390 pp.
 * Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law: Foundational Concepts, 2019, 333 pp.
 * Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law: Correlating Thinkers, 2018, 804 pp.
 * Quality Control in Preliminary Examination: Volume 2, 2018, 764 pp.
 * Quality Control in Preliminary Examination: Volume 1, 2018, 706 pp.
 * Possibilities and Impossibilities in a Contradictory Global Order, 2018, 204 pp.
 * Power in International Criminal Justice, 2020, 884 pp.
 * Historical War Crimes Trials in Asia, 2016, 397 pp.
 * Double Standards: International Criminal Law and the West, 2015, 141 pp.
 * Military Self-Interest in Accountability for Core International Crimes, 2018, 504 pp.
 * Historical Origins of International Criminal Law: Volume 5, 2017, 1,180 pp.
 * Historical Origins of International Criminal Law: Volume 4, 2015, 996 pp.
 * Historical Origins of International Criminal Law: Volume 3, 2015, 837 pp.
 * Historical Origins of International Criminal Law: Volume 2, 2014, 805 pp.
 * Historical Origins of International Criminal Law: Volume 1, 2014, 720 pp.
 * Quality Control in Fact-Finding, 2020, 650 pp.
 * On the Proposed Crimes Against Humanity Convention, 2014, 503 pp.
 * 戦争と平和の間――発足期日本国際法学における「正しい戦争」の観念とその帰結, 2013, 277 pp.
 * State Sovereignty and International Criminal Law, 2012, 299 pp.
 * 国家主权与国际刑法, 2012, 258 pp.
 * مفهوم جرایم جهانی در حقوق بین الملل, pp. 424, 2023.
 * The Concept of Universal Crimes in International Law, 2012, 361 pp.
 * Thematic Prosecution of International Sex Crimes, 2018, 577 pp.
 * Understanding and Proving International Sex Crimes, 2012, 894 pp.
 * Abbreviated Criminal Procedures for Core International Crimes, 2017, 298 pp.
 * Distributive Justice in Transitions, 2010, 442 pp.
 * Justicia distributiva en sociedades en transición, 2012, 468 pp.
 * Law in Peace Negotiations, 2010, 442 pp.
 * 国家武装冲突法军事手册研究, 2023, 221 pp.

Law of the Future Series


 * Towards Shockproof European Legal and Governance Strategies, 2018, 175 pp.
 * Informal International Lawmaking: Case Studies, 2012, 537 pp.

Nuremberg Academy Series


 * Integrity in International Justice, 2020, 1,192 pp.
 * The Tokyo Tribunal: Perspectives on Law, History and Memory, 2020, 472 pp.
 * Islam and International Criminal Law and Justice, 2018, 262 pp.