Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law: Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy

ISBN-13: 9780199546671 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 480 str.

Steven R Ratner

Opis

The fall of dictatorial regimes and the eruption of destructive civil conflicts around the world have led to calls for holding individuals accountable for human rights atrocities. This book offers a comprehensive study of the promise and limitations of international criminal law as a means of enforcing international human rights and humanitarian law. It provides a searching analysis of the principal crimes under the law of nations, such as genocide and crimes against humanity and an appraisal of the most important prosecutorial and other mechanisms developed to bring individuals to justice. After applying their conclusions in a detailed case study, the authors offer a series of compelling conclusions on the prospects for accountability.
This fully updated new edition also contains expanded coverage of the increasing numbers of international criminal trials including the cases of Bosnia, Serbia, and East Timor. It also explores individual accountability for terrorist acts and accountability for acts undertaken in the name of counter-terrorism policy, and provides expanded coverage of aggression and crimes against peace.

Recenzje

...a timely and welcome addition to international legal literature...What for me is remarkable is that a work of such academic pedigree and intellectual excellence should be such an eminently readable review of all aspects of individual criminal responsibility and international criminal law past, present and potential

O autorze

Steven R. Ratner is Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School Jason S. Abrams is an international lawyer based in New York James Bischoff works in the offices of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Juan Torruella