Universal Jurisdiction: International and Municipal Legal Perspectives (Oxford Monographs in International Law) [Paperback]

Luc Reydams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 14, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0199274266 | ISBN-13: 978-0199274260

This study is a about the ambit of national criminal law. Can a country prosecute and punish a foreigner for a crime committed abroad against another foreigner? This book develops an international legal framework for the problem and examines in great detail the practice in fourteen countries including the US and leading European and Commonwealth jurisdictions.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Meticulously and comprehensively navigates the discourse over a nation-state's authority to prosecute an alleged international criminal.... I am unaware of any other study of universal jurisdiction offering as extensive a compilation and critique of the relevant domestic law."--The American Journal of International Law

About the Author

Luc Reydams is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame.
Brussels, Attorney (1989-1992)
Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg-i-Br., Germany), Visiting Research Fellow (July-September '98)
University of Notre Dame, Kellogg Institute Dissertation Year Fellowship 1997-98
Luc Reydams has contributed to the American Journal of International Law, Criminal Law Forum, the European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, and the Yearbook of African Law.

Product Details

• Paperback: 286 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (October 14, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0199274266
• ISBN-13: 978-0199274260
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,556,919 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A very good book about State universal jurisdiction, February 20, 2005

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Paul Weberbauer "P. H. Weberbauer" (Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Universal Jurisdiction: International and Municipal Legal Perspectives (Oxford Monographs in International Law) (Hardcover)

The book explains over the legal norms that the States have which make them able to exercise jurisdicition over persons from other States.

Mainly about criminal law and the problem of foreign persons being judge by a foreign State. A worth reading.