Prosecuting international crimes : selectivity and the international criminal law regime / Robert Cryer.
2005
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Prosecuting international crimes : selectivity and the international criminal law regime / Robert Cryer.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Description
1 online resource (xxviii, 360 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series
Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) ; 41.
Formatted Contents Note
1. development of international criminal law
2. International criminal law : state rights, responsibilities and problems
3. International criminal tribunals and the regime of international criminal law enforcement
4. Selectivity in international criminal law
5. Selectivity and the law : I
definitions of crimes
6. Selectivity and the law : II
general principles of liability and defences.
2. International criminal law : state rights, responsibilities and problems
3. International criminal tribunals and the regime of international criminal law enforcement
4. Selectivity in international criminal law
5. Selectivity and the law : I
definitions of crimes
6. Selectivity and the law : II
general principles of liability and defences.
Summary
This 2005 book discusses the legitimacy of the international criminal law regime. It explains the development of the system of international criminal law enforcement in historical context, from antiquity through the Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials, to modern-day prosecutions of atrocities in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. The modern regime of prosecution of international crimes is evaluated with regard to international relations theory. The book then subjects that regime to critique on the basis of legitimacy and the rule of law, in particular selective enforcement, not only in relation to who is prosecuted, but also the definitions of crimes and principles of liability used when people are prosecuted. It concludes that although selective enforcement is not as powerful as a critique of international criminal law as it was previously, the creation of the International Criminal Court may also have narrowed the substantive rules of international criminal law.
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Cambridge Core.
Language
English
ISBN
9780511494161 ebook
9780521824743 (hardback)
9780521173513 (paperback)
9780521824743 (hardback)
9780521173513 (paperback)
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