Public international law: criminal law

The mental suffering and agony, the ruined lives, the broken homes and hearts, the desolation and yearning and despair - who can measure the cost of crime?

Genocide has emerged as one of the leading problems of the twentieth century.

The book explores the prohibition and prosecution of hate speech in international law.

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

This first-of-its-kind volume revisits current findings on ADHD in terms of classic thinking on developmental neuropsychology for a more rounded concept of brain disorganization.

Die Arbeit untersucht die Definition des Geschlechts im Statut des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs im Hinblick darauf, ob diese die sexuelle Orientierung und die Geschlechtsidentität erfasst.

This short and accessible book is the first to focus exclusively on the inter-relation between transitional justice and rule of law reconstruction in post-conflict and post-authoritarian states.

Genocide has emerged as one of the leading problems of the twentieth century.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of personal participation in criminal proceedings and in absentia trials.

This book explores the institution of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as a policy instrument.

Since the Second World War, the international community has sought to prevent the repetition of destructive far-right forces by establishing institutions such as the United Nations and by adopting documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Criminal law is one of the most rapidly changing areas of contemporary EU law and integration.

This timely book comprehensively examines whether the worst human rights violations directed specifically at sexual and gender minorities are punishable under international criminal law, as codified in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

This book shows how international tribunal judges expand human rights protections and ensure the legacy of international justice.

To understand the international legal order in the field of criminal law, we need to ask three elementary questions.

This volume examines the contributions to International Law of individual members of the Advisory Committee of Jurists in the League of Nations, and the broader national and discursive legal traditions of which they were representative.

This book offers the first benchmarking study of China's response to the problems of security in cyber space.

This book argues that the expressivist justice model provides a meaningful foundation for the participation of victims in international criminal proceedings.

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

This is the second edition of EU Criminal Law, which has become since its publication in 2009 a key point of reference in the field.

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.

An international legal analysis of the UN Security Council''s agenda on Women, Peace and Security (WPS).

Assesses the legacy and impact of the ICTY and ICTR, focusing on their most significant legal achievements in international criminal law.

This book, a follow-up publication to the 2016 volume Foreign Fighters under International Law and Beyond, zooms in on the responses that the international community and individual States are implementing in response to (prospective and actual) returning foreign fighters (FFs) and their families, focusing on returnees from Syria and Iraq to European countries.

This book explores the EU's approach to peacebuilding and questions the EU global role as crisis manager and capacity builder.

Zehn Jahre nach dem Inkrafttreten des Völkerstrafgesetzbuches (VStGB) vereinigt der vorliegende Sammelband unterschiedliche Blickwinkel und Perspektiven auf das noch junge Gesetzeswerk und dessen Praxis.

Mit der Untersuchung des Menschenhandels zur Ausbeutung der Arbeitskraft (§§ 232, 232b StGB) greift die Studie einen hochaktuellen und praxisrelevanten Ausschnitt der europäischen Kriminalpolitik auf.

This book is a tribute to the work of Professor Terry Gill, offered to him by friends and colleagues who are also academics and/or practitioners in the field of International Law of Military Operations (ILMO).

This book retraces the evolution of crimes against humanity and their application in terms of both historic legal analysis and subject-matter content.

Das vorliegende Buch bietet eine systematische Einführung in das Strafanwendungsrecht, das Europäische Strafrecht nach dem Lissabon-Vertrag und das Völkerstrafrecht auf der Grundlage des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs; zahlreiche Übersichten und Prüfungsschemata veranschaulichen den Stoff.

This book analyses how the complementarity regime of the ICC's Rome Statute can be implemented in member states, specifically focusing on African states and Nigeria.

The threats to human rights posed by non-state actors are of increasing concern.

This book introduces readers to the major human rights institutions, courts, and tribunals and critically assesses their legacy as well as the promise they hold for realizing human rights globally, and the challenges they face in doing so.

This book seeks to understand how and why we should hold leaders responsible for the collective mass atrocities that are committed in times of conflict.

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.

EU Criminal Law is perhaps the fastest-growing area of EU law.

This book examines the understudied, yet increasingly applied, concept of Guarantees of Non-Repetition under international human rights law and transitional justice.

The first comprehensive study of China''s role in international dispute resolution in the context of the ''Belt and Road Initiative''.

This book addresses the discursive importance of the prosecution's opening statement before an international criminal tribunal.

The fight against impunity has become a growing concern of the international community.

We are currently engaged in an existential species war against nonhuman animals.

This book explores the practical and theoretical opportunities as well as the challenges raised by the expansion of transitional justice into new and 'aparadigmatic' cases.

This book examines how international law prohibits state and individual complicity.

This book examines the relationship between international human rights discourse and the justifi cations for criminal punishment.

This book is dedicated to a fundamental conflict in modern states: those persons holding public office are no more than ordinary citizens.

Crimes of atrocity have profound and long-lasting effects on any society.

The dramatic uprisings that ousted the long-standing leaders of several countries in the Arab region set in motion an unprecedented period of social, political and legal transformation.