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Author Hafetz, Jonathan, author.

Title Punishing atrocities through a fair trial : international criminal law from Nuremberg to the age of global terrorism / Jonathan Hafetz
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Contents Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Creating the Template: Nuremberg and the Post-World War II International Prosecutions; 2 International Criminal Law's Revival and the Challenges of Implementation; 3 The Creation of a Permanent International Criminal Court; 4 Procedure and Fairness in a Decentralized System; 5 The Selectivity Challenge in International Criminal Law; 6 Accountability and Fairness: A Window into the Recurring Debate over Treating Terrorism as a Crime under International Law; Concluding Remarks; Index
Summary Over the past decades, international criminal law has evolved to become the operative norm for addressing the worst atrocities. Tribunals have conducted hundreds of trials addressing mass violence in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, and other countries to bring to justice perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. But international courts have struggled to hold perpetrators accountable for these offenses while still protecting the fair trial rights of defendants. Punishing Atrocities through a Fair Trial explores this tension, from criticism of the Nuremberg Trials as 'victor's justice' to the accusations of political motivations clouding prosecutions today by the International Criminal Court. It explains why international criminal law must adhere to transparent principles of legality and due process to ensure its future as a legitimate and viable legal regime
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 3, 2018)
Subject International Criminal Court.
SUBJECT International Criminal Court fast
Subject International criminal law.
International criminal courts.
Criminal liability.
Fair trial.
War crime trials -- Germany -- Nuremberg -- History -- 20th century
Atrocities.
Terrorism.
International crimes.
Terrorism
terrorism.
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
Atrocities
Criminal liability
Fair trial
International criminal courts
International criminal law
Terrorism
War crime trials
Terrorism.
Atrocities.
International criminal justice.
Fair trial proceedings.
Germany -- Nuremberg
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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9781316147627
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