Trials and Tribulations of International Prosecution

Herausgeber: Carey, Henry F.; Mitchell, Stacey M.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the political and legal challenges of instating criminal prosecutions by international tribunals since their reestablishment a half century after the international military tribunals at Nuremberg and Tokyo.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 527g
• ISBN-13: 9781498515115
• ISBN-10: 1498515118
• Artikelnr.: 42402980

Autorenporträt

Henry F. Carey is associate professor of political science at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is the author most recently of Privatizing the Democratic Peace: Policy Dilemmas of NGO Peacebuilding (2012) and Reaping what you Sow: A Comparative Examination of Torture Reform in the United States, France, Argentina, and Israel (2012), editor of United Nations Law Reports and co-editor of ISA Compendium on International Law (2010). Stacey M. Mitchell is lecturer in the Dept. of International Relations at the University of Georgia, where she earned her PhD She is the author of many articles on international criminal justice, including "Ignorance and Miscalculation in American Foreign Policy towards Rwanda" and "The Role of Structure and Institutions in the Genocide of the Rwandan Tutsi and the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire."

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Thematic Studies Chapter 1: Customary Law and the Ad
Hoc International Criminal Courts James Larry Taulbee Chapter 2: The Joint
Criminal Enterprise Debate and the Case of Charles Taylor: The Politics of
International Criminal Tribunal Law Kelly-Kate Pease Chapter 3: Prosecuting
Recruitment of Child Combatants by the Special Court for Sierra Leone:
Precedents and Problems Kimberly Lanegran Chapter 4: Song as a Crime
Against Humanity: The First International Prosecution of a Pop Star Susan
Benesch Chapter 5: Seeking Justice and Accountability: The Dilemmas of
Humanitarian Law and Human Rights NGOs Mahmood Monshipouri Chapter 6: Peace
v. Justice: The Strategic use of International Criminal Tribunals Candace
H. Blake-Amarante Chapter 7: Understanding the Alienated Constitutents of
International Tribunals: Bridging the Gap Adam M. Smith Chapter 8: Justice,
Peace, and Windmills: An Analysis of 'Live Indictments' by the
International Criminal Court Peter Stoett Chapter 9: Should We Press the
Victims? Uneven Support for International Criminal Tribunals Michael D.
Thurston Chapter 10: The ICC and R2P: Problems of Individual Culpability
and State Responsibility Benjamin N. Schiff Part II: Case Studies Chapter
11: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial Yuki Takatori Chapter 12: Arresting Charles
Taylor Beth Dougherty Chapter 13: Hybrid Tribunals and the Rule of Law: War
Crimes Chamber of the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Olga
Martin-Ortega Chapter 14: A Necessary Compromise or Compromised Justice?
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Johanna Herman Chapter
15: Special Tribunal for Lebanon Kathleen Barrett Chapter 16: Comparing
Formal and Informal Mechanisms of Acknowledgement in Uganda Joanna Quinn
Chapter 17: Restorative Justice, RPF Rule and the Success of Gacaca Stacey
M. Mitchell Chapter 18: Gacaca and the Treatment of Sexual Offenses Prisca
Uwigabye Chapter 19: Guilty as Charged: The Trial of Former President
Alberto Fujimori for Human Rights Violations Jo-Marie Burt Chapter 20:
Afterword Henry F. Carey