Leena Grover

Interpreting Crimes in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers the first detailed analysis of, and guide to, the interpretation of international crimes defined in the Rome Statute.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 474
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 833g
• ISBN-13: 9781107067721
• ISBN-10: 1107067723
• Artikelnr.: 41083874

Autorenporträt

Leena Grover is a Habilitation Candidate in the Faculty of Law at the University of Zurich. She is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and has worked for a number of adjudicatory bodies including the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and International Criminal Court.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Claus Kreß
1. Introduction
2. The state of the art
Annex: aids to interpretation
3. Guiding interpretive principle
4. Challenges to the principle of legality
5. Operationalizing the principle of legality
6. Custom as an aid to interpretation
7. Internal indicia of codification
8. External indicia of codification
9. The Vienna Convention (1969) and aids to interpretation
10. Conclusions.