Promoting accountability under international law for gross human rights violations in Africa
Subtitle: essays in honour of prosecutor Hassan Bubacar Jallow
By: edited by Charles Chernor Jalloh, Alhagi B. M. Marong
Contributors: Jallow, Hassan B., honouree
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 619
ISBN-13: 9789004271746; 9789004271753
Subjects: Prosecution (International law); Judges; International criminal courts; International crimes; Biography
Description: 'Promoting Accountability under International Law for Gross Human Rights Violations in Africa' is pre-eminently a study on the work and contribution of the first international judicial mechanism, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), devoted exclusively to challenging impunity for serious international crimes committed in Africa. This volume is dedicated to the eminent international jurist Justice Hassan Bubacar Jallow, the Tribunal's longest serving Chief Prosecutor and the first prosecutor of the United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals. The noted scholar and practitioner contributors discuss various aspects of the law, jurisprudence and practice of the Tribunal over its twenty year existence, while also drawing lessons for current and future international courts such as the International Criminal Court. Themes covered include the role of the international prosecutor; the prosecution of sexual and gender-based crimes; the relationship between national and international courts; the role of other international institutions in challenging impunity; and the role of African languages in international criminal trials. Given its wide ranging substantive coverage, this book will be invaluable to anyone interested in criminal justice, human rights and humanitarian law whether in Africa or other parts of the world.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Sir Dawda Jawara; title: Foreword / by Judge Navi Pillay; title: Hassan Bubacar Jallow : a biographical summary; title: Hassan Bubacar Jallow : the man on a journey for justice / Chernor S. Jallow; title: Hassan Bubacar Jallow : the man behind the action / Murtaza Jaffer; title: Justice Hassan Bubacar Jallow's contribution to the development of law in the Gambia : the Supreme Court years / Ousman A. S. Jammeh; title: Towards reviving legal professionalism and the need for ethical leadership / Aboubacar Abdullah Senghore; title: The role of the international prosecutor as a custodian of global morality / Bankole Thompson; title: Selecting cases at the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda / William A. Schabas; title: The experience of the office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda concerning arrest strategies and lessons learnt for the office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court / Phakiso Mochochoko; title: The ICC's twelfth anniversary crisis : growing pains or institutional deficiency? / M. Cherif Bassiouni; title: Protection of populations against atrocity crimes : the role of regional organizations / Adama Dieng; title: The contribution of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda to the rule of law / Leila Nadya Sadat; title: The legacy of international and hybrid courts : are human rights more respected? A tribute to Justice Hassan B. Jallow / David Tolbert and Laura A. Smith; title: An unbreakable thread? : the presumption of innocence in international law / Karim A. A. Khan, Dato' Shyamala Alagendra and Anand A. Shah; title: Cumulative charges under international criminal law issues and perspectives / Bongani C. Majola; title: Permissibility of convictions for genocide and conspiracy to commit genocide in respect of the same events / Roman Boed; title: The Taylor case : aiding and abetting, "Specific  direction" and the possibility of strict liability for remote offenders / Frederic Megret and Siena Antsis; title: The law and politics of the Charles Taylor case / Charles Chernor Jalloh; title: The sexual and gender-based crimes policy paper of the office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court / Fatou Bensouda; title: Challenging impunity for crimes of sexual violence : the efforts of prosecutor Jallow to set the record straight / Linda Bianchi; title: Justice Hassan Bubacar Jallow and gender justice in international criminal prosecutions / George William Mugwanya; title: Transfer of cases under the jurisprudence of the ICTR and lessons learnt for the ICC / Alhagi B. M. Marong and Charles Chernor Jalloh; title: Justice Hassan Bubacar Jallow's contribution to international criminal justice : an OTP perspective / Alex Obote-Odora; title: Monitoring and the referral of criminal cases between jurisdictions : an ICTR contribution to best practice / Joanna Harrington; title: Justice for the United Nations : a quiet revolution? / Geoffrey Robertson; title: Borrowing international human rights law some examples from the doctrine of the margin of appreciation in the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights / Rachel Murray; title: From coup reaction to coup prevention / Christopher Waters; title: International criminal law and refugee law : lessons learned / Joseph Rikhof; title: African languages in international criminal justice : the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and beyond / Leigh Swigart.