The principle of legality in international and comparative criminal law / Kenneth S. Gallant.
2009
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The principle of legality in international and comparative criminal law / Kenneth S. Gallant.
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Description
1 online resource (xxi, 603 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series
Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) ; 65.
Formatted Contents Note
Legality in criminal law, its purposes, and its competitors
A partial history to World War II
Nuremberg, Tokyo, and other Post-War cases
Modern development of international human rights law : practice involving multilateral treaties and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Modern comparative law development : national provisions concerning legality
Legality in the modern international and internationalized criminal courts and tribunals (with a note on legality in internationally-supervised trust territories)
Legality as a rule of customary international law today.
A partial history to World War II
Nuremberg, Tokyo, and other Post-War cases
Modern development of international human rights law : practice involving multilateral treaties and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Modern comparative law development : national provisions concerning legality
Legality in the modern international and internationalized criminal courts and tribunals (with a note on legality in internationally-supervised trust territories)
Legality as a rule of customary international law today.
Summary
This book fills a major gap in the scholarly literature concerning international criminal law, comparative criminal law, and human rights law. The principle of legality (non-retroactivity of crimes and punishments and related doctrines) is fundamental to criminal law and human rights law. Yet this was the first book-length study of the status of legality in international law - in international criminal law, international human rights law, and international humanitarian law. This was also the first book to survey legality/non-retroactivity in all national constitutions, developing the patterns of implementation of legality in the various legal systems such as Common Law, Civil Law, Islamic Law, and Asian Law around the world. This is a necessary book for any scholar, practitioner, and library in the area of international, criminal, comparative, human rights, or international humanitarian law.
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Cambridge Core.
Language
English
ISBN
9780511551826 ebook
9780521886482 (hardback)
9780521187602 (paperback)
9780521886482 (hardback)
9780521187602 (paperback)
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