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From sovereign impunity to international accountability [electronic resource] : the search for justice in a world of states / edited by Ramesh Thakur and Peter Malcontent.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crimes against humanity.
- Criminal liability (International law).
- Sovereignty, Violation of.
- International criminal courts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the changing political and human rights context that gave rise to the international norm of individual criminal accountability. It brings together a preeminent group of experts to explore the progress, scope and controversies of international accountability.
- Contents:
- From impunity to accountability : forces of transformation and the changing international human rights context / Paul G. Lauren
- From the Nuremberg Charter to the Rome Statute : a historical analysis of the limits of international criminal accountability / Michael D. Biddiss
- International criminal justice and the United States : law, culture, power / David P. Forsythe
- Violations of human rights and humanitarian law and threats to international peace and security / George J. Andreopoulos
- The individual within international law / Michail Wladimiroff
- Gender-related crimes : a feminist perspective / Christine Chinkin
- International criminal courts and the admissibility of evidence / Bert Swart
- Balancing the rights of the accused with the imperatives of accountability / William A. Schabas
- We the people : The position of NGOs in gathering evidence and giving witness at international criminal trials / Helen Durham
- Democracy, global governance, and the International Criminal Court / Madeline H. Morris
- Reconciling fractured societies : an African perspective on the role of judicial prosecutions / Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu
- Demystifying Osama Bin Laden : fair trials for international terrorists / Geoffrey Robertson
- The complexity of international criminal law : looking beyond individual responsibility to the responsibility of organizations, corporations, and states / Andrew Clapham
- The international Criminal Court and the prohibition of the use of children in armed conflict / Julia Maxted
- The international Criminal Court : obstacle or contribution to an effective system of human rights protection? / Cees Flinterman
- Dealing with guilt beyond crime : the strained quality of universal justice / Ramesh Thakur.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-91566-8
- 9786610915668
- 92-808-7063-7
- OCLC:
- 191039654
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