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Author Keyzer, Patrick

Title Access to International Justice
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (281 pages)
Series Challenges of Globalisation
Routledge/challenges of globalisation.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 What is 'access to international justice' and what does it require?; 2 Walking the talk: human rights, access to justice and the fight against poverty; 3 Access to international justice: the role of the International Criminal Court in aiding national prosecutions of international crimes; 4 Aggression and Monetary Gold quo vadis?; 5 Drone strikes and human rights: balancing national security, individual rights and international justice
6 Access to international justice: law and practice of the European Court of Human Rights7 Access to justice for victims of the use of force in international affairs: individual civil responsibility for aggression; 8 Access to justice before international criminal tribunals: an evaluation of the scheme of victim participation adopted by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC); 9 'Visions of a distant millennium'? The effectiveness of the UN Human Rights Petition System
10 The International Committee of the Red Cross and access to international justice: a carefully considered paradox11 Convergence, fragmentation and sustainability in access to international justice; 12 Accessing ecological justice in the Anthropocene epoch!; 13 Climate justice and the distribution of rights to emit carbon; 14 Nuclear power and human security: lessons from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident; Index
Summary There is much debate about the scope of international law, its compatibility with individual state practice, its enforceability and the recent and limited degree to which it is institutionalized. This collection of essays seeks to address the issue of access to justice, the related element of domestic rule of law which does not yet figure significantly in debates about international rule of law. Even in cases in which laws are passed, institutions are present and key players are ethically committed to the rule of law, those whom the laws are intended to protect may be unable to secure protecti
Notes Print version record
Subject International law.
International courts.
International law and human rights.
LAW -- International.
International courts
International law
International law and human rights
Form Electronic book
Author Popovski, Vesselin
Sampford, Charles
ISBN 9781317661122
1317661125