International law in domestic courts
Subtitle: rule of law reform in post-conflict states
By: Edda Kristjansdottir, Andre Nollkaemper, Cedric Ryngaert (editors)
Series: Series on transitional justice -- v. 9
Publisher: Intersentia; Distribution for the USA and Canada, International Specialized Book Services
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, U. K; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781780680415
Subjects: Transitional justice; International law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Edda Kristjánsdóttir, André Nollkaemper, and Cedric Ryngaert; title: Lost in translation? : domestic courts, international law and rule of law "a la carte" / Stéphane Beaulac; title: International law in the Russian courts in transitional situations / Sergei Yu. Marochkin; title: Thickening the rule of law in transition : the constitutional entrenchment of economic and social rights in South Africa / Evelyne Schmid; title: Judicial activism and the use of international law as a gap-filler in domestic law : the case of forced disappearances committed during the armed conflict in Nepal / Rishikesh Wagle; title: International law and Iraqi courts / Haider Ala Hamoudi; title: Constitutionalism without governance : international standards in the Afghan legal system / Ebrahim Afsah; title: Understandings of international law in Rwanda : a contextual approach / Nicola Palmer; title: Virtuous flexibility : the application of international human rights norms by the Bosnian Human Rights Chamber / Antoine Buyse; title: War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina : seeding "international standards of justice"? / Katerina Uhlířová; title: Prosecution of war crimes in Bosnian cantonal and district courts : the role of the rule of law / Sanja Popovic; title: War crimes prosecution in a post-conflict era and a pluralism of jurisdictions : the experience of the Belgrade War Crimes Chamber / Sharon Weill and Ivan Jovanović; title: The treatment of occupation legislation by courts in liberated territories / Eyal Benvenisti and Michal Saliternik; title: The use and abuse of international law : choice of applicable criminal law in post-conflict East Timor / Yaël Ronen; title: Concluding observations / Edda Kristjánsdóttir, André Nollkaemper, and Cedric Ryngaert.