1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000301060403321

Autore

Sax, Newton Irving

Titolo

Dangerous of industrial materials. / N. Irving Sax.

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, copyr. 1968

Edizione

[3° ed.]

Descrizione fisica

VII,1251 p., 25 cm

Disciplina

615

Locazione

DINCH

Collocazione

04 092-26

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463504203321

Titolo

Justice Belied : the unbalanced scales of international criminal justice / / edited by Sébastien Chartrand and John Philpot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montréal, Québec : , : Baraka Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-926824-79-2

1-77186-028-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Disciplina

340.5609

Soggetti

Criminal law - Research

Civil law - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Acronyms; Introduction; PART I; International Criminal Justice in the Eyes of Africans and African Americans; 1 African Court and International Criminal Courts: Discriminatory International Justice and the Quest for a New World Judicial Order; Introduction; Selective and Discriminatory Justice in Context; The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: A Victors' Court; Backdoor Attempts to Eternalise Victors' Justice; The Special Court for Sierra Leone; The ICC: The Price of Selective and Discriminatory Justice

The African Court, the ICC, Universal Jurisdiction, and the Challenges AheadConclusion; Notes; 2 The Ailing Empire's Full Spectrum Dominance; Note; 3 Victoire Ingabire: Chronology of a Pinochet-style Case of Repression; Notes; 4 The Fabrication of Evidence before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; The Rwandan Law on Guilty Plea, Confession, and Forgiveness; Witness Protection; Witness Proofing; Notes; 5 Charles Taylor: The Special Courtfor Sierra Leone and Questionable Verdicts; Introduction; Alleged Credible Examples for Future Trials

Questionable Legal Justification of Evidential FindingsFindings in Other Trials; Test of Judicial Scrutiny; Conclusion; Notes; 6 The Seven Challenges for Truthand Justice in Rwanda; Five Burdens; Seven Challenges; 7 The ICC and Kenya: Going Beyond the Rhetoric; Introduction; Beyond the Rhetoric; Stepping on Sensitive Political, Ethnic, and Cultural Nerves; The Political Card; Conclusion; Notes; PART II; The ad hoc InternationalCriminal Tribunals; 8 The Heart of Dark Jurisprudence; Highly Questionable Results; A Cloud of Secrecy; The Case for an Independent Review: The East Timor Precedent

National Jurisdictions: To Disclose or Not to DiscloseAcquittals: A Double Standard Prevails; Conclusion; Notes; 9 Prosecutorial Failure to Disclose Exculpatory Material: A Death Knell to Fairness; Introduction; Rule 68: Does it "Level the Playing Field" Between Prosecution and Defence?; The "Military II" Case: Disclosure "As soon as practicable"??; Notes; 10 Lessons Learned from the Bad Beginnings of The International Tribunal for Rwanda; Disorganisation and Causes of Conflict; Power Struggles; Racial and Ethnic Internal Conflicts; Absence of Working Tools

Complaints, Denunciations, and Requests for Investigation by Families of VictimsProblems of Language and Communication; Communications; Recruitment; Government Pressure; Financial Administration and Corruption; Waste; Embezzlement, Theft, and Corruption; Complaint to the Secretary General and Request for Investigation; Results and Consequences of the Investigations; And the Good Staff?; Notes; 11 The Dubious Heritage of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; Impunity; Firing a Wayward Prosecutor; Referral to National Courts and Rwandan impunity; Myths and Lies

The War: An Internal or International Conflict?

Sommario/riassunto

Written by practicing criminal defense lawyers, jurists, investigators, and specialized journalists, this book criticizes the whole initiative of international criminal justice and considers the idea that it must be abandoned in the name of justice. Has foreign policy trumped justice? How are equity, equality before the law, absence of selectivity, protection of witnesses, and enforcement affected? How are lives of citizens throughout the world changed by International Justice? Asking the burning questions about criminal justice as it is practiced at the International Criminal Court, the ad-ho



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910807837903321

Titolo

Comics as history, comics as literature : roles of the comic book in scholarship, society, and entertainment / / edited by Annessa Ann Babic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61147-852-9

1-61147-557-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BabicAnnessa Ann

Disciplina

741.5/9

Soggetti

Comic books, strips, etc - Influence on mass media

Comic books, strips, etc

Comic books, strips, etc., in education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.