Accountability for human rights atrocities in international law : beyond the Nuremberg legacy /
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York:
Oxford University Press,
2009
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Individual accountability for human rights abuses: historical and legal underpinnings
- Genocide and the imperfections of codification
- Crimes against humanity and the inexactitude of custom
- War crimes and the limitations of accountability for acts in armed conflict
- Other abuses incurring individual responsibility under international law
- Expanding and contracting culpability: complicity, defenses, and other barriers to criminality
- Mechanisms for accountability: framing the issues
- The forum of first resort: national tribunals
- The progeny of Nuremberg: international criminal tribunals
- Non-prosecutorial options: investigatory commissions, civil suits, immigration measures, and lustration
- Developing the case: comments on evidence and judicial assistance
- Evidence: a dearth of uniform standards
- The Khmer Rouge rule over Cambodia: a historical overview
- Applying the law
- Engaging the mechanisms
- Striving for justice: the prospects for individual accountability