Richard J Goldstone, Adam M Smith

International Judicial Institutions

The architecture of international justice at home and abroad

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fully-updated and much expanded second edition provides a much needed, short and accessible introduction to the current debates in international humanitarian law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781138799707
• ISBN-10: 113879970X
• Artikelnr.: 41611880

Autorenporträt

Richard J. Goldstone is Visiting Professor at University of Virginia School of Law, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, and former Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Adam M. Smith is a Washington, DC-based international lawyer. He has written and lectured extensively on international law and has worked on post-conflict justice in the Balkans, Asia, and Africa. Educated at Harvard, Oxford, and Brown, Smith has held posts at the White House, the UN and the World Bank and is the author of After Genocide: Bringing the Devil to Justice.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. International humanitarian law: a short review
2. The pre-dawn of international justice: through World War I
3. International justice following World War II: Nuremberg and Tokyo
4. The Cold War and the rise of domestic international justice 5. Post-Cold War justice: the UN ad hoc tribunals
mixed courts
and the ICC
6. Post-ICC prosecutions: new domestic proceedings and international proceedings
7. beyond ICC justice
8. Conclusion: the future of "international" justice-active at home and abroad.