International Criminal Law

ISBN-13: 9780415603188 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 2678 str.

Antonio Cassese; Robert Cryer; Urmila D

Opis

In 1993, the United Nations Security Council set up an ad hoc tribunal to bring to trial those accused of the worst breaches of humanitarian law in the war-torn former Yugoslavia, thus setting in motion a process which has significantly raised the profile and importance of international criminal justice. Whether through a proliferation of international criminal courts and tribunals, or by the many pronouncements in domestic courts on international crimes, the patchwork of disparate rules, principles, conventions, and treaties is now taking discernible shape, and a distinct corpus of law operating across diverse cultures and varied legal traditions is rapidly emerging.

Responding to these momentous developments, this new title from Routledge s Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Law, addresses the acute need for an authoritative reference work that traces the evolution of the emerging discipline of international criminal law. The learned editors aver that now is the time to take stock and make some sense of the subject s dauntingly vast literature, to identify a canon, and to engage with its key concepts. Selected by Antonio Cassese, the first President of the Yugoslavia Tribunal and the author of some of the most influential books on the subject, and a small team of noted scholars, this new four-volume collection assembles the best scholarship from the time of Nuremberg and Tokyo to the present day.

The volume editors have realized an ambitious aim. Not only does "International Criminal Law" bring together ground-breaking material sourced from a wide range of academic journals, edited collections, textbooks, and monographs, many of which are now hard to obtain, the editors also illuminate the much broader and fundamental issues related to impunity, guilt, restitution, and social reconciliation.

With a full index and a comprehensive introduction, "International Criminal Law" is an essential, authoritative, and accessible work of reference for scholar, student, and practitioner alike."

Spis treści

Volume I: International Criminal Justice and its Context  Part 1: The Notion Of International Criminal Law  Part 2: Purpose and Function of International Criminal Law  Part 3: The Historical Evolution of International Criminal Law  Part 4: Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law—And International Criminal Law  Part 5: Public Opinion, the Media—And International Criminal Justice  Volume II: Substantive Law  Part 6: Fundamental Principles  Part 7: Crimes  Part 8: Modes of Responsibility  Part 9: Defences  Part 10: Sanctions, Sentencing, and Imprisonment  Volume III: International Institutions and Procedure  Part 11: International Courts and Tribunals  Part 12: General Principles Governing International Criminal Proceedings  Part 13: Evidence  Part 14: Victims  Part 15: State Co-operation  Part 16: Merits and Limitations of International Criminal Prosecution  Volume IV: Complements and Alternatives  Part 17: National Prosecutions  Part 18: Amnesties, Traditional Justice Mechanisms, and Non-Criminal Responses