Forging a convention for crimes against humanity / edited by Leila Nadya Sadat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sadat, Leila Nadya, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crimes against humanity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 565 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Crimes against humanity were one of the three categories of crimes elaborated in the Nuremberg Charter. However, unlike genocide and war crimes, they were never set out in a comprehensive international convention. This book represents an effort to complete the Nuremberg legacy by filling this gap. It contains a complete text of a proposed convention on crimes against humanity in English and in French, a comprehensive history of the proposed convention, and fifteen original papers written by leading experts on international criminal law. The papers contain reflections on various aspects of crimes against humanity, including gender crimes, universal jurisdiction, the history of codification efforts, the responsibility to protect, ethnic cleansing, peace and justice dilemmas, amnesties and immunities, the jurisprudence of the ad hoc tribunals, the definition of the crime in customary international law, the ICC definition, the architecture of international criminal justice, modes of criminal participation, crimes against humanity and terrorism, and the inter-state enforcement regime.

Contents:

Crimes against humanity and the responsibility to protect / Gareth Evans, keynote address delivered June 11, 2009

History of efforts to codify crimes against humanity : from the Charter of Nuremberg to the Statute of Rome / Roger S. Clark

The universal repression of crimes against humanity before national jurisdictions : the need for a treaty-based obligation to prosecute / Payam Akhavan

Revisiting the architecture of crimes against humanity : almost a century in the making, with gaps and ambiguities remaining

the need for a specialized convention / M. Cherif Bassiouni

The bright red thread : the politics of international criminal law

do we want peace or justice? the West African experience / David M. Crane

Gender-based crimes against humanity / Valerie Oosterveld

'Chapeau elements' of crimes against humanity in the jurisprudence of the UN ad hoc tribunals / Göran Sluiter

The definition of crimes against humanity and the question of a 'policy' element / Guénaël Mettraux

Ethnic cleansing as euphemism, metaphor, criminology, and law / John Hagan and Todd Haugh

Immunities and amnesties / Diane Orentlicher

Modes of participation / Elies van Sliedregt

Terrorism and crimes against humanity / Michael P. Scharf and Michael A. Newton

Crimes against humanity and the International Criminal Court / Kai Ambos

Crimes against humanity and the responsibility to protect / David Scheffer

Re-enforcing enforcement in a specialized convention on crimes against humanity : inter-state cooperation, mutual legal assistance, and the aut dedere aut judicare obligation / Laura M. Olson

Why the world needs an international convention on crimes against humanity / Gregory H. Stanton.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-21290-1

1-139-01250-9

1-283-01732-6

9786613017321

1-139-00966-4

1-139-01019-0

1-139-00804-8

1-139-00693-2

0-511-92112-8

1-139-00914-1

OCLC:

707068427