Kenneth S. Gallant

The Principle of Legality in International and Comparative Criminal Law

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Produktbeschreibung

This text was the first modern book-length study of the status of legality in international criminal law, international human rights law, and comparative law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 901g
• ISBN-13: 9780521187602
• ISBN-10: 0521187605
• Artikelnr.: 33114449

Inhaltsangabe

1. Legality in criminal law, its purposes, and its competitors; 2. A
partial history to World War II; 3. Nuremberg, Tokyo, and other post-war
cases; 4. Modern development of international human rights law: practice
involving multilateral treaties and the universal declaration of human
rights; 5. Modern comparative law development: national provisions
concerning legality; 6. Legality in the modern international and
internationalized criminal courts and tribunals; 7. Legality as a rule of
customary international law today; Conclusion: the endurance of legality in
national and international criminal law.