The Cambridge Companion to International Criminal Law - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1107695686 ISBN 13: 9781107695689

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Riassunto

This comprehensive introduction to international criminal law addresses the big issues in the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective. Expert contributors include international lawyers, judges, prosecutors, criminologists and historians, as well as the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials. Serving as a foundation for deeper study, each chapter explores key academic debates and provides guidelines for further reading. The book is organised around several themes, including institutions, crimes and trials. Purposes and principles place the discipline within a broader context, covering the relationship with human rights law, transitional justice, punishment and the imperatives of peace. Several tribunals are explored in depth, as are many emblematic trials. The book concludes with perspectives on the future.

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This comprehensive introduction to international criminal law addresses the big issues in the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective. Each chapter explores key academic debates and provides guidelines for further reading. The book is organised around several themes, including institutions, crimes and trials, and concludes with perspectives on the future.

L'autore:

William A. Schabas is Professor of International Law at Middlesex University, London. He also holds appointments at Leiden University and the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is the author of many books and articles on the abolition of capital punishment, genocide, human rights and the international criminal tribunals. Professor Schabas was a member of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Chairman of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1107695686
• ISBN 13: 9781107695689
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 422
• Redattore: Schabas William A.