Prosecuting International Crimes
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 06 July 2009
- 10 June 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780511494161
- 9780521824743
- 9780521173513
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.745kg, 392 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.57kg, 392 Pages
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Book description
This 2005 book discusses the legitimacy of the international criminal law regime. It explains the development of the system of international criminal law enforcement in historical context, from antiquity through the Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials, to modern-day prosecutions of atrocities in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. The modern regime of prosecution of international crimes is evaluated with regard to international relations theory. The book then subjects that regime to critique on the basis of legitimacy and the rule of law, in particular selective enforcement, not only in relation to who is prosecuted, but also the definitions of crimes and principles of liability used when people are prosecuted. It concludes that although selective enforcement is not as powerful as a critique of international criminal law as it was previously, the creation of the International Criminal Court may also have narrowed the substantive rules of international criminal law.
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"...plentiful evidence from doctrine and practice,...an invaluable reference guide for students and scholars..."
--Jenia Iontcheva Turner, Southern Methodist University,Political Science Quarterly
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