Title: Prosecuting international crimes : a multidisciplinary approach /
Authors: Krzan, Bartłomiej,
Year: 2016
Subjects: International crimes Law and legislation.; International criminal law.; International criminal courts.; Prosecution (International law)
Abstract: "The volume edited by Bartłomiej Krzan offers different perspectives on the prosecution of international crimes. The analyses contained therein reflect different backgrounds, mainly legal, combining several disciplines, and making it a multidisciplinary study. The main (but definitely not the exclusive) point of reference is that of international law. In addition, other perspectives, those of legal history or sociology of law and obviously the one of criminal law (both substantive and procedural) provide useful alternatives or in most occasions complementary approaches to the examination of the prosecution of international crimes. The book combines different views, backgrounds ad underlying assumptions. But gathered together they, it is to be hoped, shed some additional, useful light that might be helpful for identifying new dimensions of the reaction (judicial or other) towards international crimes"--Unedited summary from book cover.
Contents: Individual responsibility and collective state responsibility for international crimes : separate or complementary concepts under international law? / Joachim Wolf -- Customary international law as a basis of an individual criminal responsibility / Wladyslaw Czaplinski -- Immunities before international criminal courts / Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack -- The attribution of international criminal responsibility for serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law to senior leaders / Krzysztof Maslo -- Crimes against civilians during armed conflicts / Patrycja Grzebyk -- Remedying torturous effects of the use of chemical weapons under international law / Regina Valutyte and Neringa Mickeviciute -- The judicial independence of judges within international criminal courts / Witold Jakimko -- Human rights and international criminal law / Bartlomiej Krzan -- The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court : inquistorial or adversarial? / Karolina Kremens -- Admissibility of illegally obtained evidence in proceedings before international criminal courts / Wojciech Jasinski -- Implementing the Nuremberg principles in national trials with nazi criminals : hesitation versus enthusiasm towards meeting the standards of complementarity in the modern international criminal law / David Kohout -- Sufficient domestic proceedings : the standard of national criminal proceedings before the ICC in context of Art. 17 of the Rome Statute / Karolina Wierczynska -- The South African truth and reconciliation commission in the context of xenophobia, cycles of violence, and epigenetic trauma / Loammi Wolf -- Prosecuting international crimes in Lithuania : when wounds shape the law / Justinas Zilinskas.