| Description |
xlv, 550 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Part One: General Issues. Ch.1 . Key concepts and basic definitions -- Ch. 2. Criminal jurisdiction and state immunity -- Ch. 3. State immunity: whether a state or its representatives can be brought before another State's courts without its consent. Part Two: Specific Crimes. Ch. 4. Genocide -- Ch. 5. Crimes against humanity -- Ch. 6. War crimes -- Ch. 7. Torture -- Ch. 8. Terrorism -- Ch. 9. "Uncommon crimes". Part Three: Individual Responsibility and Impunity. Ch. 10. International criminal courts for the indictment of individuals. Part Four: Individual Human Rights in International Criminal Law. Ch. 11. Women, sexual violence and international crime: a unifying example |
| Summary |
"The relationship between international criminal law and international human rights remains under-examined and undeveloped, yet the principles overlap and inform each other. Thus international criminal law is undergoing a rapid period of change and development, and international Criminal Law and Human Rights will provide a much-needed and informative response." "This book provides students, academics and other interested persons with an accessible, thorough and in-depth analysis of this complex and challenging field. In addition to using a wide variety of sources to explain the new law and the role and operation of the future court, the text analyses and interprets the various challenges controlling international criminal law and human rights and assesses its future role in public international law. Each international crime is examined in a separate chapter, e.g. genocide, war crimes, torture, crimes against humanity. Of particular note is the up-to-date chapter on terrorism as an international crime, which has hitherto received very limited treatment in texts on international criminal law. Further, a series of chapters address the boundaries of, and relationship between, international criminal law and human rights; for example, human rights violations of women as international crime, and the uneasy position of human rights in extradition and immigration law." "International Criminal Law and Human Rights serves admirably as a textbook on international criminal law and the new Court, but it ranges much further and will also provide the reader with an important and often-missed context."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
War crime trials.
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International crimes.
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Criminal jurisdiction.
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Human rights.
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Human rights -- Criminal provisions.
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Offenses against humanity
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| Author |
Shorts, Edwin.
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| LC no. |
2004396328 |
| ISBN |
0421722509 paperback |
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