International and National Prosecution of Crimes Under International Law - Current Developments

The adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on 17 July 1998 is widely seen as the starting point for anew phase in the history of international criminal justice. In the course of the almost two and a half years following thebreak-through of Rome very significant developments have taken place both at the international and at the national level. Theyinclude the submission by the Prepara-tory Commission for the International Criminal Court of Draft Rules of Procedure andEvidence and Draft Elements of Crimes, important judicial pronouncements by the International Criminal Tribunals for the FormerYugoslavia and Rwanda and an increasing amount of national case law on the prosecution of crimes under interna-tional law.This book presents and analyses these post-Rome developments. It contains a comprehensive insider s account of thenegotiations on the Draft Rules of Procedure and Evidence and the Draft Elements of Crimes, a thorough appraisal of the evolvingjurisprudence of the two Ad Hoc Tribunals by officials of the two Tribunals and by distinguished academics, and detailed expertcommentaries on the most recent national case law in Italy, Germany, Belgium, Senegal, the United Kingdom and Spain.

Product details

• Assisted by: Horst Fischer (Editor), Claus Kreß (Editor), Sascha R. Lüder (Editor)
• Publisher: BWV - Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2001
• EAN: 9783830501367
• ISBN: 978-3-8305-0136-7
• No. of pages: 873
• Dimensions: 208 mm x 218 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 894 g
• Series: Bochumer Schriften zur Friedenssicherung und zum Humanitären Völkerrecht; Bochumer Schriften zur Friedenssicherung und zum Humanitären Völkerrecht
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law