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International Criminal Law: Volumes I-IV

International Criminal Law: Volumes I-IV

Author: Antonio Cassese; Florian Jessberger; Robert Cryer; Urmila De
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415603188
Published In: December 2015
Format: Hardback (4 volumes)
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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In 1993, the United Nations Security Council set up an ad hoc tribunal to bring to trial those accused of the worst breaches of humanitarian law in the war-torn former Yugoslavia, thus setting in motion a process which has significantly raised the profile and importance of international criminal justice. Whether through a proliferation of international criminal courts and tribunals, or by the many pronouncements in domestic courts on international crimes, the patchwork of disparate rules, principles, conventions, and treaties is now taking discernible shape, and a distinct corpus of law operating across diverse cultures and varied legal traditions is rapidly emerging.

Responding to these momentous developments, this new title from Routledge’s Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Law, addresses the acute need for an authoritative reference work that traces the evolution of the emerging discipline of international criminal law. The learned editors aver that now is the time to take stock and make some sense of the subject’s dauntingly vast literature, to identify a canon, and to engage with its key concepts. Selected by Antonio Cassese, the first President of the Yugoslavia Tribunal and the author of some of the most influential books on the subject, and a small team of noted scholars, this new four-volume collection assembles the best scholarship from the time of Nuremberg and Tokyo to the present day.

The volume editors have realized an ambitious aim. Not only does International Criminal Law bring together ground-breaking material sourced from a wide range of academic journals, edited collections, textbooks, and monographs, many of which are now hard to obtain, the editors also illuminate the much broader—and fundamental—issues related to impunity, guilt, restitution, and social reconciliation.

With a full index and a comprehensive introduction, International Criminal Law is an essential, authoritative, and accessible work of reference for scholar, student, and practitioner alike.

Volume I: INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND ITS CONTEXT

Part 1: The Notion Of International Criminal Law

Part 2: Purpose and Function of International Criminal Law

Part 3: The Historical Evolution of International Criminal Law

Part 4: Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law—And International Criminal Law

Part 5: Public Opinion, the Media—And International Criminal Justice

Volume II: SUBSTANTIVE LAW

Part 6: Fundamental Principles

Part 7: Crimes

Part 8: Modes of Responsibility

Part 9: Defences

Part 10: Sanctions, Sentencing, and Imprisonment