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International Criminal Law & Human Rights
By
Claire de Than, Edwin Shorts
Description
The relationship
between international criminal law and international human rights
remains under-examined and undeveloped, yet the principles overlap
and inform each other. Thus international criminal law is undergoing
a period of rapid change and development, and this book is a
much-needed and informative response.
It provides
students, academics and other interested persons with an accessible,
thorough and in-depth analysis of this complex and challenging field.
In addition to using a wide variety of sources to explain the new law
and the role and operation of the future court, it analyses and
interprets the various challenges confronting it and assesses its
future role in public international law. Each international crime is
examined in a separate chapter, eg genocide, war crimes, torture,
crimes against humanity. Of particular note is the up-to-date chapter
on terrorism as an international crime, which has hitherto received
very limited treatment in texts on international criminal law.
Further, a series of chapters address the boundaries of, and
relationship between, international criminal law and human rights;
for example human rights violations of women as international crime,
and the uneasy position of human rights in extradition and
immigration law. International Criminal Law and Human Rights
serves admi
Contents
Theoretical
conceptions of international criminal law. International criminal
jurisdiction. State responsibility. Torture. Terrorism. Genocide.
Crimes against humanity. War crimes. Immigration, extradition and
international human rights. The position of women in international
criminal law. Relationship between international criminal law and
human rights. Uncommon international crimes. UN responsibilities for
maintenance of world peace. Past, present and future international
courts and tribunals.
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