International criminal tribunals : a normative defense / Larry May, Shannon Fyfe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

May, Larry, author.

Fyfe, Shannon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International criminal courts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 217 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

In the last two decades there has been a meteoric rise of international criminal tribunals and courts and also a strengthening chorus of critics against them. Today it is hard to find strong defenders of international criminal tribunals and courts. This book attempts such a defense against an array of critics. It offers a nuanced defense, accepting many criticisms but arguing that the idea of international criminal tribunals can be defended as providing the fairest way to deal with mass atrocity crimes in a global arena. Fairness and moral legitimacy will be at the heart of this defense. The authors take up the economic and political arguments that have been powerfully expressed, as well as arguments about sovereignty, punishment, responsibility, and evidence; but in the end they show that these arguments do not defeat the idea of international criminal courts and tribunals.

Contents:

Legitimacy

Sovereignty

Punishment

Responsibility

Economics

Politics

Evidence

Fairness

Concluding remarks.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Mar 2017).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781316414569

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.