The International Criminal Court and the Transformation of International Law: Justice for the New Millenium PDF Download

Author: Leila Sadat
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004479732
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Professor Sadat's book is a valuable "restatement" of international criminal law, discovering and delineating the process that led the United Nations from Nuremberg to the Rome Statute of an International Criminal Court. "With the establishment of the International Criminal Court we enter an exciting era in the development of internatonal criminal law. This well written and thoroughly researched work provides a comprehensive and insightful analysis and critique of the Rome Statute and the impact of prosecuting war criminals" -- Justice Richard Goldstone Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Author: Cyril Laucci
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004277013
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 853

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The Annotated Digest of the International Criminal Court, 2009, is the fourth in a series of volumes which compile the most significant legal findings in public decisions rendered by the ICC. This volume addresses questions considered by the ICC in 2009 including substantive issues involving the elements of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and command responsibility, as well as questions about the right to legal assistance, the legal recharacterization of charges, and the participation of victims in proceedings before the Court. Abstracts compiled in this series were selected based on the following criteria: (i) clarification of a legal issue or interpretation of a legal provision; (ii) implementation of a legal provision; and (iii) meaningfulness with respect to international justice, human rights, or international humanitarian law.

Author: Carsten Stahn
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004166556
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 793

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The International Criminal Court is at a crossroads. In 1998, the Court was still a fiction. A decade later, it has become operational and faces its first challenges as a judicial institution. This volume examines this transition. It analyses the first jurisprudence and policies of the Court. It provides a systematic survey of the emerging law and practice in four main areas: the relationship of the Court to domestic jurisdictions, prosecutorial policy and practice, the treatment of the Courta (TM)s applicable law and the shaping of its procedure. It revisits major themes, such as jurisdiction, complementarity, cooperation, prosecutorial discretion, modes of liability, pre-trial, trial and appeals procedure and the treatment of victims and witnesses, as well as their criticisms. It also explores some of challenges and potential avenues for future reform.

Author: Héctor Olásolo
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004146156
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423

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The Rome Statute, unlike the statutes of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, creates a permanent court whose dormant jurisdiction covers the territory and includes the nationals of States Parties and is universal in cases where the Security Council makes a referral. Besides, unlike the "ad hoc" tribunals, which have jurisdiction over specific crisis situations whose personal, territorial and temporal parameters have been defined in their respective statutes by the UN Security Council, in the case of the ICC it is not possible to determine a priori in which situations the ICC will be involved. As a result, the most relevant activity of the Court is the determination of those situations regarding which the dormant jurisdiction of the Court will be triggered. The book "The Triggering Procedure of the International Criminal Court" constitutes the first comprehensive analysis of the proceedings that, prior to any criminal investigation, aim to make such a fundamental determination.

Author: André Nollkaemper
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191652822
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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This book explores the way domestic courts contribute to the maintenance of theinternational of law by providing judicial control over the exercises of public powers that may conflict with international law. The main focus of the book will be on judicial control of exercise of public powers by states. Key cases that will be reviewed in this book, and that will provide empirical material for the main propositions, include Hamdan, in which the US Supreme Court reviewed detention by the United States of suspected terrorists against the 1949 Geneva Conventions; Adalah, in which the Supreme Court of Israel held that the use of local residents by Israeli soldiers in arresting a wanted terrorist is unlawful under international law, and the Narmada case, in which the Indian Supreme Court reviewed the legality of displacement of people in connection with the building of a dam in the river Narmada under the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention 1957 (nr 107). This book explores what it is that international law requires, expects, or aspires that domestic courts do. Against this backdrop it maps patterns of domestic practice in the actual or possible application of international law and determines what such patterns mean for the protection of the international rule of law.

Author: Cyril Laucci
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 904743157X
Category : Law
Languages : fr
Pages : 844

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Depuis l’entrée en vigueur de son Statut, le 1er juillet 2002, la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) a commencé à travailler. Les premières Situations (République Démocratique du Congo, Ouganda, République Centrafricaine et Soudan) et affaires (Lubanga, Kony, Otti, Lukwyia, Odhiambo, Ongwen, Katanga, Ngudjolo) sont à présent pendantes devant la Cour. Les premières décisions publiques datent de juillet 2004. Plus de 250 décisions publiques ont été rendues en date du 31 décembre 2006. Le Code annoté de la Cour pénale internationale (2004-2006) est le premier volume d’une collection. En fonction du nombre de décisions rendues par la Cour dans l’avenir, un nouveau volume sera publié chaque année ou tous les deux ans. Le Code propose une sélection des extraits les plus pertinents des décisions publiques rendues par la Cour entre juillet 2004 et le 31 décembre 2006. Les extraits proposés ont été sélectionnés sur la base des critères suivants : 1) extraits qui clarifient un point de droit, interprètent l’une des dispositions statutaires de la Cour... ; 2) extraits qui montrent comment une règle spécifique est concrètement appliquée par la Cour ; 3) extraits pertinents du point de vue de l’évolution de la justice internationale, des droits de l’homme, du droit international humanitaire... Les extraits sont proposés dans leur version française officielle, chaque fois qu’elle est disponible ou dans leur version anglaise originale. Dans tous les cas, un résumé en français identifie de façon claire l’apport de l’extrait par rapport aux critères de sélection. Les extraits sont classifiés par rapport à la disposition statutaire (article du Statut, règle du Règlement de procédure et de preuve, norme du Règlement de la Cour) à laquelle ils se rapportent. Un numéro d’identification rapide facilite le renvoi aux extraits des autres décisions sélectionnés dans le présent volume. La présente collection de Codes annotés est avant tout conçue comme un outil à l’usage des praticiens du droit pénal international et des universitaires, qui, grâce au numéro d’identification rapide et à l’index thématique, y trouveront le moyen d’identifier immédiatement les extraits les plus pertinents de la jurisprudence de la Cour sur chaque sujet.

Author: Fabián Raimondo
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047431677
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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International lawyers usually disregard the vital functions that general principles of law may play in the decisions of international courts and tribunals. As far as international criminal law is concerned, general principles of law may be crucial to the outcome of an international trial, inter alia because the conviction of an accused in respect of a particular charge may depend on the existence of a given defence under this source. This volume examines the role that general principles of law have played in the decisions of international criminal courts and tribunals. In particular, it analyses their alleged ‘subsidiary’ nature, their process of determination, and their transposition from national legal systems into international law. It concludes that general principles of law have played a significant role in the decisions of international criminal courts and tribunals, not only by filling legal gaps, but also by being a fundamental means for the interpretation of legal rules and the enhancement of legal reasoning.

Author: André Nollkaemper
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198739745
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 769

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The Oxford ILDC online database, an online collection of domestic court decisions which apply international law, has been providing scholars with insights for many years. This ILDC Casebook is the perfect companion, introducing key court decisions with brief introductory and connecting texts. An ideal text for practitioners, judged, government officials, as well as for students on international law courses, the ILDC Casebook explains the theories and doctrines underlying the use by domestic courts of international law, and illustrates the key importance of domestic courts in the development of international law.

Author: Cedric Ryngaert
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199688516
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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This fully updated second edition of Jurisdiction in International Law examines the international law of jurisdiction, focusing on the areas of law where jurisdiction is most contentious: criminal, antitrust, securities, discovery, and international humanitarian and human rights law. Since F.A. Mann's work in the 1980s, no analytical overview has been attempted of this crucial topic in international law: prescribing the admissible geographical reach of a State's laws. This new edition includes new material on personal jurisdiction in the U.S., extraterritorial applications of human rights treaties, discussions on cyberspace, the Morrison case. Jurisdiction in International Law has been updated covering developments in sanction and tax laws, and includes further exploration on transnational tort litigation and universal civil jurisdiction. The need for such an overview has grown more pressing in recent years as the traditional framework of the law of jurisdiction, grounded in the principles of sovereignty and territoriality, has been undermined by piecemeal developments. Antitrust jurisdiction is heading in new directions, influenced by law and economics approaches; new EC rules are reshaping jurisdiction in securities law; the U.S. is arguably overreaching in the field of corporate governance law; and the universality principle has gained ground in European criminal law and U.S. tort law. Such developments have given rise to conflicts over competency that struggle to be resolved within traditional jurisdiction theory. This study proposes an innovative approach that departs from the classical solutions and advocates a general principle of international subsidiary jurisdiction. Under the new proposed rule, States would be entitled, and at times even obliged, to exercise subsidiary jurisdiction over internationally relevant situations in the interest of the international community if the State having primary jurisdiction fails to assume its responsibility.

Author: Andrzej Jakubowski
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004365346
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Cultural Heritage in the European Union provides a critical analysis of the laws and policies which address cultural heritage throughout Europe, considering them in light of the current challenges faced by the Union. The volume examines the matrix of organisational and regulatory frameworks concerned with cultural heritage both in the Union and its Members States, as well as their interaction, cross-fertilisation, and possible overlaps. It brings together experts in their respective fields, including not only legal, but also cultural economists, heritage professionals, government representatives, and historians. The diverse backgrounds of the authors offer a cross-disciplinary approach and a variety of views which allows an in-depth scrutinisation of the latest developments pertaining to cultural heritage in Europe.