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Justice for Crimes Against Humanity.

This book assesses developments in international law and seeks to end impunity by bringing to justice those accused of crimes against humanity.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lattimer, Mark
Otros Autores: Sands, Philippe
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Half Title Page
  • Half Title verso
  • Title Page
  • Title verso
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction
  • HUMAN RIGHTS, THE LAWS OF WAR AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMES
  • THE CASE OF SENATOR PINOCHET
  • ONE LAW FOR ONE WORLD?
  • THE POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
  • WHAT IS INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE FOR?
  • INTERNATIONAL LAW AFTER PINOCHET AND MILOŠEVIĆ
  • Part I: Atrocity, Impunity, Justice
  • 1. From Nuremberg to Rome: A Personal Account
  • PRELUDE TO NUREMBERG
  • THE TRIALS AT NUREMBERG
  • THE EINSATZGRUPPEN TRIAL.
  • COMPENSATING VICTIMS OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
  • ESTABLISHING INTERNATIONAL NORMS
  • THE SECURITY COUNCIL ACTS: THE NEW AD HOC TRIBUNALS
  • A PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
  • 2. Univesrsal Jurisdiction: New Uses for an Old Tool
  • FIVE TYPES OF GEOGRAPHIC JURISDICTION
  • NATIONAL LAW RESTRICTIONS ON THE SCOPE OF UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION
  • A SHORT HISTORY OF THE PRINCIPLE OF UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION
  • PRACTICAL REASONS FOR UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION
  • LEGAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND MORAL RATIONALES FOR UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION
  • ANSWERS TO CRITICISMS OF UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION.
  • NATIONAL LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE
  • OVERCOMING OBSTACLES TO UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION
  • CONCLUSION: PROSPECTS FOR UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION
  • 3. Immunities for Heads of State: Where Do We Stand?
  • RELEVANT CONCEPTS
  • LIMITS TO IMPUNITY FOR PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND HEADS OF STATE BEFORE INTERNATIONAL COURTS
  • LIMITS TO IMMUNITY FOR PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND HEADS OF STATE BEFORE THE NATIONAL COURTS OF THEIR OWN STATE
  • LIMITS TO IMMUNITY FOR PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND HEADS OF STATE BEFORE THE NATIONAL COURTS OF FOREIGN STATES
  • THE QUESTION OF IMMUNITY IN THE PINOCHET CASE.
  • THE QUESTION OF IMMUNITY IN THE DRC V BELGIUM CASE
  • CONCLUSION
  • 4. Their Atrocities and Our Misdemeanours: The Reticence of States to Try Their 'Own Nationals for International Crimes'
  • CIRCUMSTANCES CONDUCIVE TO DOMESTIC TRIALS OFOWN NATIONALS
  • DOMESTIC TRIALS BY STATES IN POLITICAL TRANSITION
  • DOMESTIC TRIALS INFLUENCED BY INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS
  • DOMESTIC TRIALS FOR SERIOUS BREACHES OF MILITARY DISCIPLINE
  • CONCLUSION
  • Part II: Justice in International and Mixed Law Courts
  • 5. The International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
  • ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
  • JURISDICTION OF THE ICTY
  • EARLY JURISPRUDENCE OF THE ICTY
  • EVALUATION OF THE TRIBUNALS' RECORD TO DATE
  • KEY CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE
  • THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR RWANDA
  • CONCLUSION
  • 6. The Collection and Admissibility of Evidence and the Rights of the Accused
  • AGE OF THE EVIDENCE
  • SCOPE OF THE TRIALS
  • ADMISSIBILITY OF EVIDENCE
  • THE EXTENT OF RELAXATION
  • WITNESS PROTECTION
  • COLLECTION OF EVIDENCE FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND ORGANISATIONS
  • CONCLUSION.