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Zusatztext The breadth of research that has gone into producing this work is plain on every page...What for me is remarkable is that a work of such academic pedigree and intellectual excellence should be such an eminently readable review of all aspects of individual criminal responsibility and international criminal law past! present and potential. Informationen zum Autor Steven R. Ratner is Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He was previously the Albert Sidney Burleson Professor in Law at the University of Texas School of Law (Austin) and an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. State Department.Jason S. Abrams is a consultant to the United Nations. He has served as Legal Officer, Policy Coordination Officer and Consultant to the United Nations. His work has included private international matters involving UN Headquarters and Peacekeeping Missions, landmines, and management reform initiatives. Earlier in his career, Mr. Abrams was an Attorney-Adviser for the U.S. Department of State. James L. Bischoff is an Attourney-Advisor in the Office of the Legal Advisor of the United Nations Department of State. He previously worked as an Associate Legal Officer at the ICTY and served on the Secretariat of the standing committee charged with proposing amendments to the Tribunal's Rules of Procedure and Evidence. Klappentext This book explores the promise and limitations of international criminal law as a means of enforcing international human rights and humanitarian law. It analyses the principal crimes, such as genocide and crimes against humanity, and appraises the mechanisms developed to bring individuals to justice. Zusammenfassung This book explores the promise and limitations of international criminal law as a means of enforcing international human rights and humanitarian law. It analyses the principal crimes, such as genocide and crimes against humanity, and appraises the mechanisms developed to bring individuals to justice. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I: SUBSTANTIVE LAW 1: Individual Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: Historical and Legal Underpinnings 2: Genocide and the Imperfections of Codification 3: Crimes Against Humanity and the Inexactitude of Custom 4: War Crimes and the Limitations of Accountability for Acts in Armed Conflict 5: Other Abuses Incurring Individual Responsibility under International Law 6: Expanding and Contracting Culpability: Complicity, Defenses, and Other Barriers to Criminality PART II: MECHANISMS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY 7: Mechanisms for Accountability: Framing the Issues 8: The Forum of First Resort: National Tribunals 9: The Progeny of Nuremberg: International Criminal Tribunals 10: Non-Prosecutorial Options: Investigatory Comissions, Civil Suits, Immigration Measures, and Lustration 11: Developing the Case: Comments on Evidence and Judicial Assistance PART III: A CASE STUDY: THE ATTROCITIES OF THE KHMER ROUGE 12: The Khmer Rouge Rule over Cambodia: A Historical Overview 13: Applying the Law 14: Engaging the Mechanisms PART IV: CONCLUSIONS 15: Striving for Justice: The Prospects for Individual Accountability Appendices ...
