Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure - Principles, Procedures, Institutions

Zusammenfassung This textbook explores international criminal law and its application to domestic prosecutions of international crimes. 1. What is international criminal law?; 2. The objectives of international criminal law; 3. Jurisdiction; 4. National prosecutions of international crimes; 5. State Cooperation with respect to national proceedings; 6. The history of international criminal prosecutions: Nuremberg and Tokyo; 7. The ad hoc international criminal tribunals; 8. The International Criminal Court; 9. Other courts with international elements; 10. Genocide; 11. Crimes against humanity; 12. War crimes; 13. Aggression; 14. Transnational crimes, terrorism and torture; 15. General principles of liability; 16. Defences/grounds for excluding criminal responsibility; 17. Procedures of international criminal investigations and prosecutions; 18. Sentencing, penalties and reparations to victims; 19. State cooperation with international courts and tribunals; 20. Immunities; 21. Conclusions: the future of international criminal law.

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• Authors: Robert Cryer, Robert Friman Cryer, Hakan Friman, Darryl Robinson, Elizabeth Wilmshurst
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.06.2007
• EAN: 9780521876094
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87609-4
• No. of pages: 522
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law