An institutional perspective on the United Nations criminal tribunals : governance, independence, and impartiality / by Huw Llewellyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Llewellyn, Huw, 1959- author.

Series:

Legal Aspects of International Organizations ; 62.

Legal Aspects of International Organizations ; 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International criminal courts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, [2021]

Summary:

Huw Llewellyn offers a comparative institutional analysis of the five United Nations criminal tribunals (for the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Cambodia and Lebanon), assessing the strengths and weaknesses of their institutional forms in supporting the governance, independence and impartiality of these pioneering criminal justice bodies. Largely overlooked in the otherwise comprehensive literature on international criminal justice, this book focuses on "parenthood", "oversight" and "ownership" by the tribunals' governing bodies, concepts unnecessary in national jurisdictions, and traces the tension between governance and judicial independence through the different phases of the tribunals' lifecycles: from their establishment to commencement of operations, completion of mandates and closure, and finally to the "afterlife" of their residual phase.

Contents:

The United Nations criminal tribunals and their oversight bodies

Essential concepts

Establishment Part I : institutional architecture of the UN criminal tribunals

Establishment Part II : the oversight bodies and funding mechanisms

Commencement and functioning

Completion and closure

The residual phase

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-44770-9

OCLC:

1226074911

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004447707 DOI