From Nuremberg to The Hague: The Future of International Criminal Justice

✍ Scribed by Philippe Sands

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 208
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection is based on a lecture series organized jointly by Matrix Chambers and the Wiener Library in London between April and June 2002. Leading experts present papers examining the evolution of international criminal justice from its origins at Nuremberg through to the proliferation of international courts and tribunals based at The Hague today. The lectures will provide various perspectives on the subject for anyone interested in international criminal law--from specialists to non-specialists.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Notes on the contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
1 The Nuremberg trials: international law in the making......Page 17
Introduction......Page 46
Complexity......Page 47
Complicity......Page 66
Complementarity......Page 79
Conclusions......Page 81
Introduction......Page 84
The International Criminal Court......Page 90
International law promotes a role for national courts......Page 98
Pinochet......Page 105
The World Court steps in......Page 111
Conclusions......Page 119
Introduction......Page 125
Three underlying issues......Page 128
The institutional problem......Page 129
The rule of law problem......Page 141
The problem of acceptability of a universal international criminal court......Page 149
Two possible solutions......Page 151
The ILC’s procedural model......Page 153
The Rome Statute: an international criminal justice system for a few crimes?......Page 161
The outcome: the ICC under the Rome Statute......Page 170
5 Prospects and issues for the International Criminal Court: lessons from Yugoslavia and Rwanda......Page 173
Prospects for credibility and legitimacy: the International Criminal Court and women......Page 177
Prospects for criminal justice: what role for the International Criminal Court?......Page 192
The International Criminal Court as a public demonstration of justice......Page 193
Upholding the rule of law: the creation of order......Page 196
Memory against forgetting: the ICC as truth-teller......Page 199
The international International Criminal Court......Page 201
Conclusion......Page 207

✦ Subjects

Юридические дисциплины;Международное публичное право;Международное уголовное право;