Forging a convention for crimes against humanity
By: edited by Leila Nadya Sadat
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 565
ISBN-13: 9780521116480
Subjects: Crimes against humanity
Description: "Crimes against humanity were one of the three crimes elaborated in the Nuremberg Charter. However, unlike genocide and war crimes, they were never set out in a comprehensive international convention. This book represents an effort to complete the Nuremberg legacy by filling this gap. It contains a complete text of a specialized draft convention on crimes against humanity in English and in French, and fifteen original papers written by leading experts on international criminal law. The papers contain reflections on various aspects of crimes against humanity, including gender crimes, universal jurisdiction, the history of codification efforts, the responsibility to protect, ethnic cleansing, peace and justice dilemmas, amnesties and immunities, the jurisprudence of the ad hoc tribunals, the definition of the crime in customary international law, the ICC definition, the architecture of international criminal justice, modes of criminal participation, crimes against humanity and terrorism, and the inter-state enforcement regime"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.