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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784754403321

Autore

Schiff Benjamin N. <1952->

Titolo

Building the international criminal court / / Benjamin N. Schiff [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008

ISBN

1-107-18103-8

1-281-38334-1

9786611383343

0-511-79060-0

0-511-39753-4

0-511-39676-7

0-511-39911-1

0-511-39603-1

0-511-39827-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

345/.01

Soggetti

International criminal courts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references( p. 263-291) and index.

Nota di contenuto

River of justice -- Learning from the Yugoslavia and Rwanda tribunals -- The statute : Justice v. Sovereignty -- Building the court -- NGOS : advocates, assets, critics and goads -- ICC-state relations -- The first situations.

Sommario/riassunto

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first and only standing international court capable of prosecuting humanity's worst crimes: genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. It faces huge obstacles. It has no police force; it pursues investigations in areas of tremendous turmoil, conflict, and death; it is charged both with trying suspects and with aiding their victims; and it seeks to combine divergent legal traditions in an entirely new international legal mechanism. International law advocates sought to establish a standing international criminal court for more than 150 years. Other, temporary, single-purpose criminal tribunals, truth commissions, and special



courts have come and gone, but the ICC is the only permanent inheritor of the Nuremberg legacy. In Building the International Criminal Court, Oberlin College Professor of Politics Ben Schiff analyzes the International Criminal Court, melding historical perspective, international relations theories, and observers' insights to explain the Court's origins, creation, innovations, dynamics, and operational challenges.