International criminal law
By: Ilias Bantekas
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Hart Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9781849460453
Subjects: Criminal law; International crimes; Criminal jurisdiction
Description: "This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the major areas of international criminal law (ICL). It approaches its subject matter from both a criminal law and an international law perspective, analysing the various topics exhaustively but in an accessible manner. While looking at the jurisprudence of the international tribunals, it is not confined to this approach, instead analysing all the fields in which ICL is employed.^

Thus it covers the theory of ICL, including the concepts of individual responsibility, the sources of ICL, State criminality, legality and legitimacy; the subjective (mens rea) and objective (actus reus) elements of international crimes and the particular position of the International Criminal Court Statute; the various modes of liability and participation in international crimes; the doctrine of command responsibility; defences and grounds for excluding liability; immunities; an extensive analysis of all war crimes; crimes against humanity; genocide; the crime of aggression; international criminal law of the sea, including piracy, armed robbery at sea, pollution-related offences, fisheries-related offences, maritime terrorism, injury to cables and pipelines, illegal broadcasting and enforcement against such offences; transnational crimes, including organised crime, corruption, money laundering,^

illicit trafficking of drugs and postal offences; particular international offences against the person, especially slavery and related practices, apartheid, enforced disappearances and torture; the legal contours of the crime of terrorism; an analysis of the historical development of ICL and of the legal processes relating to the Nuremberg Tribunal; an analysis of the UN tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda; an examination of the International Criminal Court; an analysis of hybrid internationalised tribunals, such as those of Iraq, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, East Timor, Kosovo, Lebanon and Lockerbie, as well as an examination of truth commissions and amnesties; the various strands of criminal jurisdiction; and the different modes of inter-State cooperation in criminal matters, including cooperation with international tribunals, extradition, illegal rendition and mutual legal assistance." -- Publisher's information.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fundamentals of international criminal law; title: The subjective and objective elements of international crimes; title: Modes of liability and criminal participation; title: The law of command responsibility; title: Defences in international criminal law; title: Immunities from criminal jurisdiction; title: War crimes and grave breaches; title: Crimes against humanity; title: The crime of genocide; title: Offences against the person; title: Transnational crimes; title: Terrorism; title: The crime of aggression; title: International criminal law of the sea; title: The exercise of criminal jurisdiction; title: International cooperation in criminal matters; title: The Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals and the origins of international criminal justice; title: The international criminal tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda; title: The permanent international criminal court; title: Internationalised domestic criminal tribunals, truth commissions and amnesties; title: Evidence before international criminal courts and tribunals; title: The status of victims in international criminal law and criminal proceedings.