Public international law: criminal law

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

Bei Übergabeverfahren aufgrund eines Europäischen Haftbefehls können einzelne Umstände die Reichweite der gegenseitigen Anerkennung begrenzen und dazu führen, dass die Vollstreckung abgelehnt wird.

In the immediate aftermath of the armistice that ended the First World War, the Allied nations of Britain, France, and Italy agreed to put the fallen German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II on trial, in what would be the first ever international criminal tribunal.

Judge Mettraux's four-volume compendium, International Crimes: Law and Practice, will provide the most detailed and authoritative account to-date of the law of international crimes.

Die Einziehung von Erträgen aus Straftaten führt bei transnationalen Sachverhalten zu komplexen Fragestellungen.

This book shows how Rwanda''s mass courts for genocide crimes helped ensure political stability and authoritarian control for Rwandan elites.

The protection of fundamental rights in the field of transnational criminal inquiries is of great delicateness in the current tangled web of domestic and international legal sources.

The United Nations Convention against Corruption includes 71 articles, and takes a notably comprehensive approach to the problem of corruption, as it addresses prevention, criminalization, international cooperation, and asset recovery.

In Humanitarian Law in Action within Africa, Jennifer Moore studies the role and application of humanitarian law by focusing on African countries that are emerging from civil wars.

Since the first edition of this book was published in 2010, United Nations peace operations have evolved significantly.

A legal and historical analysis of the first modern attempts to prosecute national leaders for embarking upon aggressive war.

This book offers a critical analysis of hate crime law using Italy as a case study.

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

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

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

UN peace operations are increasingly asked to pursue stabilization mandates with lofty expectations of being able to stabilize conflict zones, achieve national reconciliation, and rebuild state legitimacy.

This book is a practical guide for advocates interested in the representation of victims before the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The International Criminal Court was established in 2002 to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation and the subsequent military campaigns entail several classical aspects of armed conflict.

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

Hauptanliegen der Arbeit ist es, einen Beitrag zur Entwicklung des Transfers von Beweisen aus TKÜ-Maßnahmen zwischen Deutschland und Brasilien zu leisten.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the presumption of innocence from both a practical and theoretical point of view.

Seit der ersten Auflage des Kommentars im Jahre 1995 hat sich die juristische Debatte über das Betäubungsmittelstrafrecht deutlich intensiviert, dies sowohl in der Wissenschaft wie auch in der Gerichtspraxis.

This book interrogates the sharp contrast that emerged between demands of the norms of international rule of law and the interests of conflict resolution at a local level in northern Uganda.

Despite a more reflective concern over the past 20 years with marginalised voices, justice from below, power relations and the legitimacy of mechanisms and processes, scholarship on transitional justice has remained relatively silent on the question of 'resistance'.

This book considers the effectiveness and fairness of using international cooperation to obtain confession evidence or evidence of a suspect or accused person's silence across borders.

This book challenges the traditional approach to international law by concentrating on international hThis book challenges the traditional approach to international law by concentrating on international humanitarian law and placing the focus beyond States: it reflects on current legal, policy and practical issues that concern non-State actors in and around situations of armed conflict.

This book provides an expanded conceptualization of legalization that focuses on implementation of obligation, precision, and delegation at the international and domestic levels of politics.

This book documents and explains the differences in the ways Americans and Europeans approach the issues of privacy and intelligence gathering.

Contributors include Dapo Akande (Oxford), Antonio Franceschet (Acadia), Tracy Isaacs (Western Ontario), Catherine Lu (McGill), Darryl Robinson (The International Criminal Court), Michael P.

This volume investigates questions linking institutional changes within the court system and legal environment with developments in criminal procedure law.

While international criminal courts have often been declared as bringing 'justice' to victims, their procedures and outcomes historically showed little reflection of the needs and interests of victims themselves.

The book deals with illicit trafficking in the Mediterranean, seen as a borderline issue between mobility and security under a strongly interdisciplinary approach.

This book embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and elucidates the three foundational aspects of its jurisdiction as laid out in the Rome Statute: the preconditions for exercising jurisdiction (Article 12 ICCRSt), its substantive competence regarding core crimes (Articles 5-8bis ICCRSt), and the principle of complementarity (Article 171(a) ICCRSt).

Written by some of the most notable criminologists of South Asia, this book examines advances in law, criminal justice, and criminology in South Asia with particular reference to India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

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 presents a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study into the various goals assigned to international criminal trials.

The book looks at the outreach and communication strategies employed by internationalised courts to try to understand the wider impact of international justice.

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

This book deals with the prosecution of core crimes and constitutes the first comprehensive analysis of the horizontal and vertical systems of enforcement of international criminal law and of their inter-relationship.

In this book, it is explained that despite a current drop in the number of deaths, terrorism should still be considered a serious and widespread problem.

Examines the impact of the Rome Statute''s complementarity principle on two states in which the International Criminal Court has intervened.

The scale and horror of recent terror attacks and the panic which ensued throughout the world has forced policy-makers and international lawyers to re-examine international legal tools available to enforce norms against terrorism.

This book provides an essential and critical overview of the most significant issues concerning the domestication of international criminal law, in particular with regard to the implementation of the ICC Statute.

Beyond Transitional Justice reflects upon the state of the field (or non-field) of transitional justice in the current conjuncture, as well as identifying new possibilities and challenges in the fields with which transitional justice overlaps (such as human rights, peacebuilding, and development).

In Indonesia, the events of 1st October 1965 were followed by a campaign to annihilate the Communist Party and its alleged sympathisers.

This book explores the issue of leadership criminality from a new angle by comparing two highly relevant modes of responsibility.

Now in its second edition, Cybercrime: Key Issues and Debates provides a valuable overview of this fast-paced and growing area of law.

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