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Forging a convention for crimes against humanity
Title
Forging a convention for crimes against humanity [electronic resource] / edited by Leila Nadya Sadat.
ISBN
9781139010191 (electronic bk.)
1139010190 (electronic bk.)
9780521116480 (print)
0521116481 (print)
Published
Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, c2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxviii, 565 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
Summary
"Crimes against humanity were one of the three crimes elaborated in the Nuremberg Charter. However, unlike genocide and war crimes, they were never set out in a comprehensive international convention. This book represents an effort to complete the Nuremberg legacy by filling this gap. It contains a complete text of a specialized draft convention on crimes against humanity in English and in French, and fifteen original papers written by leading experts on international criminal law. The papers contain reflections on various aspects of crimes against humanity, including gender crimes, universal jurisdiction, the history of codification efforts, the responsibility to protect, ethnic cleansing, peace and justice dilemmas, amnesties and immunities, the jurisprudence of the ad hoc tribunals, the definition of the crime in customary international law, the ICC definition, the architecture of international criminal justice, modes of criminal participation, crimes against humanity and terrorism, and the inter-state enforcement regime"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Print version: Forging a convention for crimes against humanity. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, c2011
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 02, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Crimes against humanity and the responsibility to protect / Gareth Evans
2. History of efforts to codify crimes against humanity: from the charter of Nuremberg to the statute of Rome / Roger S. Clark
3. The universal repression of crimes against humanity before national jurisdictions: the need for a treaty-based obligation to prosecute / Payam Akhavan
4. Revisiting the architecture of crimes against humanity: almost a century in the making with gaps and ambiguities remaining
the need for a specialized convention / M. Cherif Bassiouni
5. The bright red thread: the politics of international criminal law
the West African experience
a case study: operation justice in Sierra Leone / David Crane
6. Gender-based crimes against humanity / Valerie Oosterveld
7. 'Chapeau elements' of crimes against humanity in the jurisprudence of the United Nations ad hoc tribunals / Göran Sluiter
8. The definition of crimes against humanity and the question of a 'policy' element / Guénaël Mettraux
9. Ethnic cleansing as euphemism, metaphor, criminology and law / John Hagan and Todd J. Haugh
10. Immunities and amnesties / Diane Orentlicher
11. Modes of participation / Elies van Sliedregt
12. Terrorism and crimes against humanity / Michael P. Scharf and Michael A. Newton
13. Crimes against humanity and the international criminal court / Kai Ambos
14. Crimes against humanity and the responsibility to protect / David Scheffer
15. Re-enforcing enforcement in a specialized convention on crimes against humanity: inter-state cooperation, mutual legal assistance, and the aut dedere aut judicare obligation / Laura M. Olson
16. Why the world needs an international convention on crimes against humanity / Gregory H. Stanton
Appendix I. International convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity
Appendix II. Convention internationale pour la prévention et la répression des crimes contre l'humanité
Appendix III. A comprehensive history of the international convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity.
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