Sovereignty and justice : balancing the principle of complementarity between international and domestic war crimes tribunals / by Mark S. Ellis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellis, Mark S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War crime trials.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The drafters of the ICC's founding document, the Rome Statute, foresaw what would become the main challenge to the Court's legitimacy: that it could violate national sovereignty. To address this concern, the drafters added the principle of complementarity to the ICC's jurisdiction, in that the Court's province merely complements the exercise of jurisdiction by the domestic courts of the Statute's member states. The ICC honours the authority of those states to conduct their own trials. This ...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; TABLE OF INTERNATIONAL CASES; TABLE OF NATIONAL CASES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX; INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-5965-6

OCLC:

881416997