Punishing Atrocities Through a Fair Trial - International Criminal Law From Nuremberg to Age of Global Terrorism

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Hafetz is Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law, New Jersey. Klappentext Punishing Atrocities through a Fair Trial examines the tension between punishing mass atrocity and ensuring a fair trial for defendants. Zusammenfassung Punishing Atrocities through a Fair Trial explores why! since the Nuremberg Trials! international courts have struggled to hold perpetrators accountable for mass atrocities while still protecting the fair trial rights of defendants! and argues why international criminal law must adhere to transparent principles of legality and due process. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Creating the template: Nuremberg and the post-World War II international prosecutions; 2. International criminal law's revival and the challenges of implementation; 3. The creation of a permanent international criminal court; 4. Procedure and fairness in a decentralized system; 5. The selectivity challenge in international criminal law; 6. Achieving accountability and fairness: a window into the recurring debate over treating terrorism as an international crime; Concluding remarks.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Hafetz, Jonathan (Seton Hall University Hafetz, Hafetz Jonathan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781107094550
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09455-0
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Criminal Law / General, International Criminal Law, Public international law: criminal law