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Author Schiff, Benjamin N., 1952-

Title Building the International Criminal Court / Benjamin N. Schiff
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages)
Contents 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
Summary "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 Benjamin N. 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."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-291) and index
Subject International Criminal Court.
International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991.
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
SUBJECT International Criminal Court fast
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda fast
International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 fast
Internationaler Strafgerichtshof gnd
Subject International criminal courts.
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
International criminal courts
Internationaal strafhof.
Internationaal strafrecht.
Krigsförbrytartribunaler -- Rwanda.
Krigsförbrytartribunaler -- Jugoslavien.
Krigsförbrytartribunaler.
ICC -- international law -- trials -- Rwanda -- Yugoslavia.
war crimes -- human rights -- violations.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511396762
0511396767
9780511790607
0511790600
0511396031
9780511396038
0511398271
9780511398278