Victims' rights and advocacy at the International Criminal Court / T. Markus Funk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Funk, T. Markus, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Victims of crimes--Legal status, laws, etc.

Victims of crimes.

War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.

War victims.

International Criminal Court--Rules and practice.

International Criminal Court.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

[Second edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

North American law has been transformed in ways unimaginable before 9/11. Laws now authorise and courts have condoned indefinite detention without charge on secret evidence, mass secret surveillance, and targeted killing of U.S. citizens, suggesting a shift in the cultural currency of a liberal form of legality to authoritarian legality. This book demonstrates that extreme measures have been consistently embraced in politics, scholarship, and public opinion in a specific belief that 9/11 was the harbinger of a new order of terror.

Contents:

A legacy of abuse and suffering leads to the birth of the ICC

Tracing the development of victims' rights under international law

Primer on the ICC

The Rome Statute's groundbreaking (and expansive) recognition of victims' rights

Qualifying as legal counsel for victims

Steps to formal recognition as a "victim"

Preparing for complex group representation

Understanding victims' interests and recognizing the importance of managing and guiding expectations

Holding a pre-trial evidentiary hearing to establish the historic record

Compiling a "victimization dossier" as a permanent historic record of abuse

Pre-trial proceedings

The main trial

Summation and sentencing.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 12, 2015).

ISBN:

0-19-023669-8

0-19-023670-1