International law: courts and procedures

The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics provides a comprehensive analysis of the origins and development of one of the most striking supranational judicial institutions.

During the 1980s, thousands of Chadian citizens were detained, tortured, and raped by then-President Hissene Habre's security forces.

With the acceptance of international criminal procedure as a self-sustaining discipline and as the tribunals established to try the most serious crimes in the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and Rwanda have completed or are beginning to wind up their activities, the time is ripe for a critical evaluation of these international criminal tribunals and their legacy.

When the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance drafts its own procedural rules, and when it makes decisions on procedural matters, it turns to Paul Lasok's highly regarded book for confirmation and guidance.

This text is a general introduction to American judicial process.

Arbitration of International Business Disputes 2nd edition is a fully revised and updated anthology of essays by Rusty Park, a leading scholar in international arbitration and a sought-after arbitrator for both commercial and investment treaty cases.

International Criminal Law provides a comprehensive overview of an increasingly integral part of public international law.

The revised tenth edition of this core textbook provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world's countries - each representative of a different type of legal system.

The vast majority of all international judicial decisions have been issued since 1990.

Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of the rise of Trump's populist support in 2016, and his failed efforts to nullify the result of the 2020 election.

The modern public prosecutor is a figure both powerful and enigmatic.

This updated tenth edition covers all aspects of prisoners' rights, including an overview of the judicial system and constitutional law and explanation of specific constitutional issues regarding correctional populations.

Voices from Criminal Justice, Second Edition, gives students rich insight into the criminal justice system from the point of view of practitioners, as well as outsiders-citizens, clients, jurors, probationers, or inmates.

This book provides a full analytical overview of the establishment and functioning of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the newest and most controversial of the UN-sponsored international criminal courts.

With its often vague legal concepts and institutions that operate according to unfamiliar procedures, judicial decision-making is, in many respects, a highly enigmatic process.

This book discusses the under-researched relationship between sentencing and the legitimacy of punishment.

International Law is both an introduction to the subject and a critical consideration of its central themes and debates.

This book examines the challenges posed by the largely unfamiliar culture in which the Special Court for Sierra Leone operates.

Investment arbitration has become the primary means of settling disputes between states and foreign investors.

Since World War II, there have been some 250 conflicts throughout the world, leaving between 70-170 million atrocity crime victims.

Negotiating sovereignty and human rights takes the transatlantic conflict over the International Criminal Court as a lens for an enquiry into the normative foundations of international society.

In 1998, the Rome Statute to the International Criminal Court (ICC) emerged as a groundbreaking treaty both due to its codification of international criminal law and its recognition of the crimes committed against women in times of war and conflict.

This is a book about international criminal justice written by one of its foremost practitioners and academic thinkers, Judge Theodor Meron.

The last 150 years of international dispute resolution on sovereign debt offer lessons for the next wave of sovereign defaults.

To what extent do courts make social and public policy and influence policy change?

Negotiating sovereignty and human rights takes the transatlantic conflict over the International Criminal Court as a lens for an enquiry into the normative foundations of international society.

State judicial elections are governed by a unique set of rules that enforce longstanding norms of judicial independence by limiting how judicial candidates campaign.

An innovative, interdisciplinary and far-reaching examination of the actual reality of international courts, International Court Authority challenges fundamental preconceptions about when, why, and how international courts become important and authoritative actors in national, regional, and international politics.

This Study Guide is designed to help students review and apply the material presented in the textbook, "e;Families in Context.

Examining the twelve-decade legal conflict of government bans on religious garb worn by teachers in U.

This book identifies conditions under which the Court is successful at altering the behavior of state and private actors.

A timely assessment of cross-fertilization among international courts and tribunals as a complex multi-dimensional process, involving procedural and substantive elements.

The rise of investment arbitration in the last decade has generated an unprecedented body of arbitral case law.

Der Band vereint die deutschen Landesberichte zu den Themen des XXIX.

Fragmentation is one of the major debates within international law, but no detailed case studies have been made to show the problems that it creates, and how they can be addressed.

Principles of International Criminal Law has become one of the most influential textbooks in the field of international criminal justice.

Criminal Justice Internships: Theory Into Practice, Tenth Edition, guides the student, instructor, and internship site supervisor through the entire internship process, offering advice and information for use at the internship site as well as pre-planning and assessment activities.

Africa has been at the forefront of contemporary global efforts towards ensuring greater accountability for international crimes.

The trial of major Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg was a landmark event in the development of modern international law, and continues to be highly influential in our understanding of international criminal law and post-conflict justice.

International courts and tribunals hold the power to decide on questions involving sovereignty over territory, grave human rights violations, international crimes, or millions of euros' worth of economic interests.

The Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and corrections.

This book provides the first in-depth and empirically grounded analysis of the foundations and evolution of the four Latin American and Caribbean regional economic courts: the Central American Court of Justice (CACJ), the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), the Andean Tribunal of Justice (ATJ), and the Mercosur Permanent Review Court (MPRC).

The Court of Justice of the European Union has exclusive jurisdiction over European Union law and holds a broad interpretation of these powers.

This book sets out and analyses the procedural law applied by international criminal tribunals and the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The Practitioner's Handbook on International Commercial Arbitration provides reports on the arbitration systems and laws of 13 countries in addition to commentaries on the arbitration rules of ICC, ICDR, LCIA, and UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules as well as on the UNCITRAL Model Law and the New York Convention.

Realizing Utopia is a collection of essays by a group of innovative international jurists.

Critical review of the work and significance of the International Court of Justice over fifty years.

Analyses the interaction between the ICC and domestic jurisdictions from a multidisciplinary and situation-related perspective.

Since World War II, there have been some 250 conflicts throughout the world, leaving between 70-170 million atrocity crime victims.