Author: Nina H. B. Jørgensen Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108651208 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 571
Book Description
This book is concerned with the commercial exploitation of armed conflict; it is about money, war, atrocities and economic actors, about the connections between them, and about responsibility. It aims to clarify the legal framework that defines these connections and gives rise to criminal or, in some instances, civil responsibility, referring both to mechanisms for international criminal justice, such as the International Criminal Court, and domestic systems. It considers which economic actors among individuals, businesses, governments and States should be held accountable and before which forum. Additionally, it addresses the question of how to recover illegally acquired profits and redirect them to benefit the victims of war. The chapters shine a critical light on the options provided by a network of laws to ensure that the 'great industrialists' of our time, who find economic opportunities in the war-ravaged lives of others, are unable to pursue those opportunities with impunity.
Author: Carsten Stahn Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108423205 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 467
Book Description
Presents theories, practices and critiques alongside each other to engage students, scholars and professionals from multiple fields. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author: Robert Cryer Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521135818 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 685
Book Description
This market-leading textbook gives an authoritative account of international criminal law, and the investigation and prosecution of crime, and guides the reader through controversies with an accessible and sophisticated approach. Now covers developments in the ICC, victims' rights, alternatives to international criminal justice, and has extended coverage of terrorism.
Author: Harmen van der Wilt Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521763568 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 401
Book Description
How does international law respond to situations where collective entities order, encourage or allow the committing of international crimes?
Author: Robert Cryer Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139443690 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 393
Book Description
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.
Author: Vanessa Neumann Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1250089352 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
Revealing how the multibillion-dollar illegal trade of everyday counterfeit products is actually funding the world's terrorist organizations, a report by an expert on countering illicit trade explains the dangerous consequences of purchasing contraband.
Author: Robert P. Burns Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400823374 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 258
Book Description
Anyone who has sat on a jury or followed a high-profile trial on television usually comes to the realization that a trial, particularly a criminal trial, is really a performance. Verdicts seem determined as much by which lawyer can best connect with the hearts and minds of the jurors as by what the evidence might suggest. In this celebration of the American trial as a great cultural achievement, Robert Burns, a trial lawyer and a trained philosopher, explores how these legal proceedings bring about justice. The trial, he reminds us, is not confined to the impartial application of legal rules to factual findings. Burns depicts the trial as an institution employing its own language and styles of performance that elevate the understanding of decision-makers, bringing them in contact with moral sources beyond the limits of law. Burns explores the rich narrative structure of the trial, beginning with the lawyers' opening statements, which establish opposing moral frameworks in which to interpret the evidence. In the succession of witnesses, stories compete and are held in tension. At some point during the performance, a sense of the right thing to do arises among the jurors. How this happens is at the core of Burns's investigation, which draws on careful descriptions of what trial lawyers do, the rules governing their actions, interpretations of actual trial material, social science findings, and a broad philosophical and political appreciation of the trial as a unique vehicle of American self-government.
Author: Leila Nadya Sadat Publisher: ISBN: 1107187532 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 653
Book Description
Analysis of how to prevent war and reinforce UN systems by imposing accountability on individuals and states for the unlawful use of force.
Author: Nina H. B. Jørgensen
Author: Carsten Stahn
Author: Robert Cryer
Author: Gary D. Solis
Author: Harmen van der Wilt
Author: Robert Cryer
Author: Vanessa Neumann
Author: Robert P. Burns
Author: Leila Nadya Sadat
Author: Hugo Grotius