Author: Nina H. B. Jørgensen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108651208
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
This book is concerned with the commercial exploitation of armed conflict; it is about money, war, atrocities and economic actors, about the connections between them, and about responsibility. It aims to clarify the legal framework that defines these connections and gives rise to criminal or, in some instances, civil responsibility, referring both to mechanisms for international criminal justice, such as the International Criminal Court, and domestic systems. It considers which economic actors among individuals, businesses, governments and States should be held accountable and before which forum. Additionally, it addresses the question of how to recover illegally acquired profits and redirect them to benefit the victims of war. The chapters shine a critical light on the options provided by a network of laws to ensure that the 'great industrialists' of our time, who find economic opportunities in the war-ravaged lives of others, are unable to pursue those opportunities with impunity.
The International Criminal Responsibility of War's Funders and Profiteers
Author: Nina H. B. Jørgensen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108651208
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
This book is concerned with the commercial exploitation of armed conflict; it is about money, war, atrocities and economic actors, about the connections between them, and about responsibility. It aims to clarify the legal framework that defines these connections and gives rise to criminal or, in some instances, civil responsibility, referring both to mechanisms for international criminal justice, such as the International Criminal Court, and domestic systems. It considers which economic actors among individuals, businesses, governments and States should be held accountable and before which forum. Additionally, it addresses the question of how to recover illegally acquired profits and redirect them to benefit the victims of war. The chapters shine a critical light on the options provided by a network of laws to ensure that the 'great industrialists' of our time, who find economic opportunities in the war-ravaged lives of others, are unable to pursue those opportunities with impunity.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108651208
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
This book is concerned with the commercial exploitation of armed conflict; it is about money, war, atrocities and economic actors, about the connections between them, and about responsibility. It aims to clarify the legal framework that defines these connections and gives rise to criminal or, in some instances, civil responsibility, referring both to mechanisms for international criminal justice, such as the International Criminal Court, and domestic systems. It considers which economic actors among individuals, businesses, governments and States should be held accountable and before which forum. Additionally, it addresses the question of how to recover illegally acquired profits and redirect them to benefit the victims of war. The chapters shine a critical light on the options provided by a network of laws to ensure that the 'great industrialists' of our time, who find economic opportunities in the war-ravaged lives of others, are unable to pursue those opportunities with impunity.
Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law
Author: Steven R. Ratner
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191563064
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
This book explores the promises and limitations of holding individuals accountable for violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. It analyses the principal crimes under international law, such as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, and appraises both prosecutorial and other key mechanisms developed to bring individuals to justice. After applying their conclusions in a detailed case study, the authors offer a series of compelling conclusions on the prospects for accountability. This fully updated new edition contains expanded coverage of national trials under universal jurisdiction, international criminal tribunals including the International Criminal Court, new hybrid tribunals in Cambodia and elsewhere, truth commissions, and lustration. It also explores individual accountability for terrorist acts and for abuses committed in the name of counter-terrorism policy.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191563064
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
This book explores the promises and limitations of holding individuals accountable for violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. It analyses the principal crimes under international law, such as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, and appraises both prosecutorial and other key mechanisms developed to bring individuals to justice. After applying their conclusions in a detailed case study, the authors offer a series of compelling conclusions on the prospects for accountability. This fully updated new edition contains expanded coverage of national trials under universal jurisdiction, international criminal tribunals including the International Criminal Court, new hybrid tribunals in Cambodia and elsewhere, truth commissions, and lustration. It also explores individual accountability for terrorist acts and for abuses committed in the name of counter-terrorism policy.
System Criminality in International Law
Author: Harmen van der Wilt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521763568
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
How does international law respond to situations where collective entities order, encourage or allow the committing of international crimes?
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521763568
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
How does international law respond to situations where collective entities order, encourage or allow the committing of international crimes?
Making Sense of Mass Atrocity
Author: Mark Osiel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521861853
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
This book trenchantly diagnoses the law's limits in making sense of mass atrocity.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521861853
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
This book trenchantly diagnoses the law's limits in making sense of mass atrocity.
Punishing Atrocities Through a Fair Trial
Author: Jonathan Hafetz
Publisher:
ISBN: 1107094550
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Punishing Atrocities through a Fair Trial examines the tension between punishing mass atrocity and ensuring a fair trial for defendants.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1107094550
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Punishing Atrocities through a Fair Trial examines the tension between punishing mass atrocity and ensuring a fair trial for defendants.
Breaking the Cycle of Mass Atrocities
Author: Marina Aksenova
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1509919465
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Breaking the Cycle of Mass Atrocities investigates the role of international criminal law at different stages of mass atrocities, shifting away from its narrow understanding solely as an instrument of punishment of those most responsible. The book is premised on the idea that there are distinct phases of collective violence, and international criminal law contributes in one way or another to each phase. The authors therefore explore various possibilities for international criminal law to be of assistance in breaking the vicious cycle at its different junctures.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1509919465
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Breaking the Cycle of Mass Atrocities investigates the role of international criminal law at different stages of mass atrocities, shifting away from its narrow understanding solely as an instrument of punishment of those most responsible. The book is premised on the idea that there are distinct phases of collective violence, and international criminal law contributes in one way or another to each phase. The authors therefore explore various possibilities for international criminal law to be of assistance in breaking the vicious cycle at its different junctures.
The Elgar Companion to the International Criminal Court
Author: Margaret deGuzman
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1785368230
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
This comprehensive Companion examines the achievements and challenges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the world’s first permanent international criminal tribunal. It provides an overview of the first two decades of the ICC’s existence, investigating the dominant narratives and counter-narratives that have emerged about the institution and its work.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1785368230
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
This comprehensive Companion examines the achievements and challenges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the world’s first permanent international criminal tribunal. It provides an overview of the first two decades of the ICC’s existence, investigating the dominant narratives and counter-narratives that have emerged about the institution and its work.
Why Punish Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities?
Author: Florian Jeßberger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108475140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Examines the purpose of international punishment and how different theories of punishment influence the practice of the International Criminal Court.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108475140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Examines the purpose of international punishment and how different theories of punishment influence the practice of the International Criminal Court.
Social Control
Author: James J. Chriss
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745638570
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
James J. Chriss carefully guides readers through the debates about social control. The book provides a comprehensive guide to historical debates and more recent controversies, examining in detail the criminal justice system, medicine, everyday life and national security.
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745638570
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
James J. Chriss carefully guides readers through the debates about social control. The book provides a comprehensive guide to historical debates and more recent controversies, examining in detail the criminal justice system, medicine, everyday life and national security.
Can War be Eliminated?
Author: Christopher Coker
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745682073
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Throughout history, war seems to have had an iron grip on humanity. In this short book, internationally renowned philosopher of war, Christopher Coker, challenges the view that war is an idea that we can cash in for an even better one - peace. War, he argues, is central to the human condition; it is part of the evolutionary inheritance which has allowed us to survive and thrive. New technologies and new geopolitical battles may transform the face and purpose of war in the 21st century, but our capacity for war remains undiminished. The inconvenient truth is that we will not see the end of war until it exhausts its own evolutionary possibilities.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745682073
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Throughout history, war seems to have had an iron grip on humanity. In this short book, internationally renowned philosopher of war, Christopher Coker, challenges the view that war is an idea that we can cash in for an even better one - peace. War, he argues, is central to the human condition; it is part of the evolutionary inheritance which has allowed us to survive and thrive. New technologies and new geopolitical battles may transform the face and purpose of war in the 21st century, but our capacity for war remains undiminished. The inconvenient truth is that we will not see the end of war until it exhausts its own evolutionary possibilities.