Public international law: criminal law

This textbook provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to genocide with an emphasis on the criminal aspect of genocide.

Attacks by network-based transnational terrorist groups cause on average 25,000 deaths every year worldwide, with the law enforcement agencies of some states facing many challenges in bringing those responsible to justice.

The legal consequence of the superior orders defense has long been debated as one of the major problems in international criminal law.

Analyses the politics of policing in a range of regime types across East and Southeast Asia.

This book analyses and evaluates the international efforts to ensure the fair and human treatment of persons in police custody.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the problem of mistakes of fact in connection with the law of state responsibility - mistakes which have significant implications for global governance and legal certainty that have yet to be fully mapped out in contemporary international law.

This book provides an in depth-examination of the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the implications of that principle for the suppression of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes on the domestic level.

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.

Families of the Missing interrogates the current practice of transitional justice from the viewpoint of the families of those disappeared and missing as a result of conflict and political violence.

This book examines the position of 'contextual elements' as a constitutive element of the legal definition of the crime of genocide, and determines the extent to which an individual genocidaire is required to act within a particular genocidal context.

La presente monografía aborda, con un enfoque eminentemente práctico, una herramienta esencial para la preparación del proceso civil: las diligencias preliminares.

Contains the most important documents on international criminal law, designed to support both students and practitioners.

This edited collection is the result of the Voices of Individuals: Collectively Exploring Self-determination (VOICES) based at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, National University of Ireland Galway.

This book examines the UK approach to investigating international crimes and serious human rights violations.

Clarifies modes of liability in international criminal law with a thorough analysis of the jurisprudence of international courts and tribunals.

This is a comprehensive Report on every armed conflict which took place during 2012.

Cultural genocide is the systematic destruction of traditions, values, language, and other elements that make one group of people distinct from another.

This book aims to investigate whether, and if so, how, an institution designed to bring to justice perpetrators of the most heinous crimes can be regarded a tool of oppression in a (neo-)colonial sense.

The history of international criminal justice told through the revealing stories of some of its primary intellectual figures.

This book examines international criminal law from a normative perspective and lays out how responsible agents, individuals and the collectives they comprise, ought to be held accountable to the world for the commission of atrocity.

This book explores the complicated relationship between constitutions and transitional justice.

A comparative and collaborative study of the foundational principles and concepts that underpin different domestic systems of criminal law.

What role do transitional justice processes play in determining the gender outcomes of transitions from conflict and authoritarianism?

This book brings together the viewpoints of leading scholars and policy makers on the topic of exceptional courts and military commissions.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics relating to the worldwide effort to combat terrorism, as well as efforts by the United States and other nations to protect their national security interests.

Tackling one of the most confusing and controversial issues in the field of international criminal law - i.

The author examines the basic principles of the extent of state penal power as well as the causes and legal facets of criminal jurisdictional conflicts.

Presents theories, practices and critiques alongside each other to engage students, scholars and professionals from multiple fields.

The book examines how and according to which principles the enactment of European criminal legislation is legitimate.

This book engages with international legal responses to the global environmental crisis.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics relating to the worldwide effort to combat terrorism, as well as efforts by the United States and other nations to protect their national security interests.

This book provides a uniquely comparative approach to the examination of financial crime regulation.

The only book addressed to both law students and military officers undergoing training in the law of armed conflict.

This second edition examines judicial independence as an aspect of democratization based on the premise that democracy cannot be consolidated without the rule of law of which judicial independence is an indispensable part.

This book examines selected legal complexities of the notion of torture and the issue of the proper foundation for legally characterizing certain acts as torture, especially when children are the targeted victims of torture.

This book situates the war in Syria within the actual and imagined system of international criminal justice.

Despite the apparent advantages of the internet, there is little debate that it facilitates intellectual property infringements, including infringements of trade mark rights.

Rwanda's Gacaca courts provide an innovative response to the genocide of 1994.

This book explores the relationship between the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the International Criminal Court (ICC), challenging the assumption that they are always mutually reinforcing or complementary, and examining instead the many tensions which arise between the immediate imperative of saving lives, and the more long-term prospect of punishing perpetrators and preventing future conflicts through deterrence.

This book analyses and evaluates the international efforts to ensure the fair and human treatment of persons in police custody.

Explains why the current US insider trading regime is inefficient and unjust, and offers a clear path to reform.

Los Delitos de Pornografía Infantil conforman el llamado Derecho penal sexual, cuyas sucesivas reformas son síntoma del carácter controvertido y polémico de esta tipología delictiva, planteando complejas cuestiones tanto respecto a la forma en la que el Derecho penal debe intervenir, así como a los límites de su castigo.

A lively narrative account of the first case to appear at the International Criminal Court, A Conviction in Question documents the trial of Union of Congolese Patriots leader and warlord, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo.

Contemporary feminist advocacy in human rights, international criminal law, and peace and security is gripped by the issue of sexual violence in conflict.

The Law and Practice of Extradition provides an in-depth overview of extradition law and practice, providing students with an understanding of how key elements have been shaped by the state, the fugitive and the international community.

This book deals with the problem of human trafficking in Tanzania in the light of international law and considers human trafficking as both a criminal offence in Tanzania and a human rights violation within international law in general.

Elements of Genocide provides an authoritative evaluation of the current perception of the crime, as it appears in the decisions of judicial authorities, the writings of the foremost academic experts in the field, and in the texts of Commission Reports.

'Child Soldiers and the Lubanga Case' and 'The Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare' are the two central themes of this volume.