Trials and Tribulations of International Prosecution

Herausgeber: Carey, Henry F.; Mitchell, Stacey M.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the political and legal challenges of instating criminal prosecutions by international tribunals since their reestablishment a half century after the international military tribunals at Nuremberg and Tokyo.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 527g
• ISBN-13: 9781498515115
• ISBN-10: 1498515118
• Artikelnr.: 42402980

Autorenporträt

Henry F. Carey is associate professor of political science at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is the author most recently of Privatizing the Democratic Peace: Policy Dilemmas of NGO Peacebuilding (2012) and Reaping what you Sow: A Comparative Examination of Torture Reform in the United States, France, Argentina, and Israel (2012), editor of United Nations Law Reports and co-editor of ISA Compendium on International Law (2010). Stacey M. Mitchell is lecturer in the Dept. of International Relations at the University of Georgia, where she earned her PhD She is the author of many articles on international criminal justice, including "Ignorance and Miscalculation in American Foreign Policy towards Rwanda" and "The Role of Structure and Institutions in the Genocide of the Rwandan Tutsi and the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire."

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Introduction
Part I: Thematic Studies
Chapter 1: Customary Law and the Ad Hoc International Criminal Courts
James Larry Taulbee
Chapter 2: The Joint Criminal Enterprise Debate and the Case of Charles
Taylor: The Politics of International Criminal Tribunal Law
Kelly-Kate Pease
Chapter 3: Prosecuting Recruitment of Child Combatants by the Special Court
for Sierra Leone: Precedents and Problems
Kimberly Lanegran
Chapter 4: Song as a Crime Against Humanity: The First International
Prosecution of a Pop Star
Susan Benesch
Chapter 5: Seeking Justice and Accountability: The Dilemmas of Humanitarian
Law and Human Rights NGOs
Mahmood Monshipouri
Chapter 6: Peace v. Justice: The Strategic use of International Criminal
Tribunals
Candace H. Blake-Amarante
Chapter 7: Understanding the Alienated Constitutents of International
Tribunals: Bridging the Gap
Adam M. Smith
Chapter 8: Justice, Peace, and Windmills: An Analysis of 'Live Indictments'
by the International Criminal Court
Peter Stoett
Chapter 9: Should We Press the Victims? Uneven Support for International
Criminal Tribunals
Michael D. Thurston
Chapter 10: The ICC and R2P: Problems of Individual Culpability and State
Responsibility
Benjamin N. Schiff
Part II: Case Studies
Chapter 11: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial
YukiTakatori
Chapter 12: Arresting Charles Taylor
Beth Dougherty
Chapter 13: Hybrid Tribunals and the Rule of Law: War Crimes Chamber of the
State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Olga Martin-Ortega
Chapter 14: A Necessary Compromise or Compromised Justice? The
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
Johanna Herman
Chapter 15: Special Tribunal for Lebanon
Kathleen Barrett
Chapter 16: Comparing Formal and Informal Mechanisms of Acknowledgement in
Uganda
Joanna Quinn
Chapter 17: Restorative Justice, RPF Rule and the Success of Gacaca
Stacey M. Mitchell
Chapter 18: Gacaca and the Treatment of Sexual Offenses
Prisca Uwigabye
Chapter 19: Guilty as Charged: The Trial of Former President Alberto
Fujimori for Human Rights Violations
Jo-Marie Burt
Chapter 20: Afterword
Henry F. Carey