New York - A book entitled "The Legal Regime of the International Criminal Court", by the Angolan jurist José Doria, was released simultaneously in the Europe and in the USA.

The 1000-paged literary work, a collection of topics on various aspects of the work carried out by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, counted on the participation of 44 authors, with the editor in chief being José Doria, an Angolan citizen working at the human rights office in Geneva, Switzerland.

Prefaced by the former UN secretary general, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the President of the ICC, Philippe Kirsch, and by the chief prosecutor of the ICC, Moreno Ocampo, the book is available in bookstores in Europe and in the USA and can be purchased online at the website www.amazon.com.

Born in Angola’s northern Bengo province, in 1963, the author was a magistrate of the ICC
Prosecuting Counsel for the former Yugoslavia, for seven years. He fluently speaks English, French, Russian, Polish and German.

Jose Doria is also the author of several scientific articles, with emphasis to "Juridical Aspects of the peace process in Cabinda (year book on International Humanitarian Law 2007)".

At the moment, he works as a defender of human rights, particularly as the law secretary for human rights committees of the United Nations, at offices of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.