Fifty years after the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, nations worldwide still struggle with the necessity of holding individuals accountable for human rights violations. This book offers an unprecedented progress report on this crucial enterprise. After examining the scope of international crime, the mechanisms created by states for enforcing laws, and the practical difficulties of applying such laws, the authors conclude their comprehensive study with an important assessment of the future of accountability.
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"Ratner and Abrams provide an incisive, knowledgeable, and comprehensive look at the substantive law and legal institutions that inhabit the intersection of international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law....This volume...is a timely and essential resource for any scholar or practitioner."--Richard J. Goldstone, Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa, and former Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
"In their comprehensive and sober examination of the efforts to direct substantive international law from states to individuals and to invent effective mechanisms for personal accountability, Ratner and Abrams have produced a valuable, timely, indeed indispensable work. It will surely influence the formation of the United Nations International Criminal Court. More important, it will focus attention on the wide range of other techniques the authors identify for making individuals accountable for human rights atrocities."--W. M. Reisman, Wesley N. Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School, and former President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
"This excellent book provides a thoroughly researched and eloquently written survey of the legal and policy framework within which these and other complex issues may be examined. It combines scholarly erudition with a practical sense and thus provides a valuable instrument for the pursuit of international justice. It is indispensable reading for students, practitioners, scholars and others interested in accountability for gross human rights abuses."--The American Journal of International Law
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Steven R. Ratner is Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law.
Jason S. Abrams is a Legal Officer with the Office of Legal Affairs at the United Nations.
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An Excellent Crimes Against Humanity Book,
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This review is from: Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law : Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
This is an excellent, short alternative to bigger and more well-known textbooks on crimes against humanity. It's very scholary, well-researched, and offers the case study of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. It addresses many theoretical as well as practical issues of international law. It lists (p. 77) crimes against humanity as murder, extermination, enslavement, forced labor, deportation and unjustified or cruel forced population transfers, imprisonment, torture, rape and other forms of sexual abuse, inhumane acts constituting severe attacks on the human person, persecution that denies basic human rights, certain severe deprivations of property, and disappearances without proof of murder. Without being overly legalistic, the book goes into how to investigate and prosecute such crimes which would be very useful for those seeking greater "accountability" in the world today.
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An incredibly in depth review of a terrible legal dilemma,
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This review is from: Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law: Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy (Oxford Monographs in International Law) (Hardcover)
Abrams and Ratner provide an excellent in depth review of the legal and moral difficulties in bringing perpertrators of genocide to justice.
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The international legal community is beset today with talk of accountability. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
internal war crimes, incur individual responsibility, war crones, excluding criminal responsibility, appellate chamber, international offenses, supra note, grave breaches provisions, international criminal law, other protected person, other inhumane acts, international legal process, domestic criminal law, including biological experiments, nexus requirement, individual criminal responsibility, wilful killing, tional humanitarian law, individual criminality, criminal accountability, unlawful deportation, other serious violations, trial chamber, international criminal tribunal, immigration measures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Khmer Rouge, United States, Genocide Convention, Geneva Conventions, World War, General Assembly, Yugoslavia Tribunal, United Nations, Democratic Kampuchea, South Africa, East German, Torture Convention, Genocide Study, Sixth Committee, Rome Statute, Eastern Zone, War Crimes Reports, Apartheid Convention, Hague Convention, Ben Kiernan, Nuremberg Tribunal, Phnom Penh, Cherif Bassiouni, International Court of Justice, Report of the International Law Commission New!
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The international legal community is beset today with talk of accountability. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
internal war crimes, incur individual responsibility, war crones, excluding criminal responsibility, appellate chamber, international offenses, supra note, grave breaches provisions, international criminal law, other protected person, other inhumane acts, international legal process, domestic criminal law, including biological experiments, nexus requirement, individual criminal responsibility, wilful killing, tional humanitarian law, individual criminality, criminal accountability, unlawful deportation, other serious violations, trial chamber, international criminal tribunal, immigration measures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Khmer Rouge, United States, Genocide Convention, Geneva Conventions, World War, General Assembly, Yugoslavia Tribunal, United Nations, Democratic Kampuchea, South Africa, East German, Torture Convention, Genocide Study, Sixth Committee, Rome Statute, Eastern Zone, War Crimes Reports, Apartheid Convention, Hague Convention, Ben Kiernan, Nuremberg Tribunal, Phnom Penh, Cherif Bassiouni, International Court of Justice, Report of the International Law Commission New!
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- The International Criminal Court: Elements of Crimes and Rules of Procedure and Evidence by Roy S. Lee on page 135, page 209, and page 217
- International Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press Law Casebook Series) by M. Cherif Bassiouni in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- International Criminal Evidence (International and Comparative Criminal Law Series) by Richard May in Back Matter
- Federal Rules of Evidence: With advisory committee notes and legislative history by United States in Table of Contents
- International Criminal Law: Procedure by M. Cherif Bassiouni in Back Matter
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- After the Killing Fields: Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide by Craig Etcheson on 4 pages
- Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity by Priscilla B. Hayner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Unspeakable Truths : Confronting State Terror and Atrocity by Priscilla B. Hayner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Accountability of Armed Opposition Groups in International Law (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law) by Liesbeth Zegveld on page 55, and page 239
- Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know by Roy Gutman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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