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The principle of legality in international and comparative criminal law / Kenneth S. Gallant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gallant, Kenneth S., 1951- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) ; 65.
- Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 65
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal jurisdiction.
- International crimes.
- Human rights.
- International criminal courts.
- Criminal law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 603 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- The Principle of Legality in International & Comparative Criminal Law
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This book fills a major gap in the scholarly literature concerning international criminal law, comparative criminal law, and human rights law. The principle of legality (non-retroactivity of crimes and punishments and related doctrines) is fundamental to criminal law and human rights law. Yet this was the first book-length study of the status of legality in international law - in international criminal law, international human rights law, and international humanitarian law. This was also the first book to survey legality/non-retroactivity in all national constitutions, developing the patterns of implementation of legality in the various legal systems such as Common Law, Civil Law, Islamic Law, and Asian Law around the world. This is a necessary book for any scholar, practitioner, and library in the area of international, criminal, comparative, human rights, or international humanitarian law.
- Contents:
- Legality in criminal law, its purposes, and its competitors
- A partial history to World War II
- Nuremberg, Tokyo, and other Post-War cases
- Modern development of international human rights law : practice involving multilateral treaties and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Modern comparative law development : national provisions concerning legality
- Legality in the modern international and internationalized criminal courts and tribunals (with a note on legality in internationally-supervised trust territories)
- Legality as a rule of customary international law today.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511551826
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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