Universal Jurisdiction - International and Municipal Legal Perspectives

Zusatztext Reydams provides an excellent historical overview of the development of the principle [of universal jurisdiction]. ...[his] book offers a clear counterpoint to those on both ends of the political spectrum who overstate and celebrate the extent of universal jurisdiction and those who overstate and fear it. Informationen zum Autor Luc Reydams is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame. Klappentext This study is a about the ambit of national criminal law. Can a country prosecute and punish a foreigner for a crime committed abroad against another foreigner? This book develops an international legal framework for the problem and examines in great detail the practice in fourteen countries including the US and leading European and Commonwealth jurisdictions. Zusammenfassung This study is about the ambit of national criminal law. Reydams identifies the international legal issues that arise when a State exercises extraterritorial jurisdiction generally. He then brings together accounts of universal jurisdiction in 14 countries.

Product details

• Authors: Luc Reydams, Luc (Adjunct Assistant Professor Reydams
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.08.2004
• EAN: 9780199274260
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927426-0
• No. of pages: 500
• Series: Oxford Monographs in International Law; Oxford Monographs in Internati; Oxford Monographs in International Law; Oxford Monographs in Internati
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law