Jonathan Hafetz (New Jersey Seton Hall University)

Punishing Atrocities Through a Fair Trial

International Criminal Law from Nuremberg to the Age of Global Terrorism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Punishing Atrocities through a Fair Trial explores why, since the Nuremberg Trials, international courts have struggled to hold perpetrators accountable for mass atrocities while still protecting the fair trial rights of defendants, and argues why international criminal law must adhere to transparent principles of legality and due process.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 162mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781107094550
• ISBN-10: 1107094550
• Artikelnr.: 48862542

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Hafetz is Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law, New Jersey.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Creating the template: Nuremberg and the post-World War II international prosecutions
2. International criminal law's revival and the challenges of implementation
3. The creation of a permanent international criminal court
4. Procedure and fairness in a decentralized system
5. The selectivity challenge in international criminal law
6. Achieving accountability and fairness: a window into the recurring debate over treating terrorism as an international crime
Concluding remarks.