Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law - Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy

Zusatztext ...a timely and welcome addition to international legal literature...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 SchoolJason S. Abrams is an international lawyer based in New YorkJames Bischoff works in the offices of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Juan Torruella 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 prosecutorial and other 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 prosecutorial and other mechanisms developed to bring individuals to justice.

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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 prosecutorial and other mechanisms developed to bring individuals to justice.

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• Authors: Jason Abrams, Jason S. Abrams, Jason S. (Consultant to the United Nations) Abrams, James Bischoff, James L. Bischoff, James L. (Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the United States Department of State) Bischoff, Steven R. Ratner, Steven R. (Professor of Law Ratner, Steven R./ Abrams Ratner
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 15.03.2009, delayed
• EAN: 9780199546671
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954667-1
• No. of pages: 480
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law