tailieunhanh - Prosecuting International Crimes

This project is the outcropping of work undertaken at two universities, Nottingham and Manchester: first at Nottingham, as a research student, next at Manchester as a lecturer and, finally, back at Nottingham as an academic. From my early days at Nottingham, I owe a debt of gratitude to my supervisors Nigel D. White and Dino Kritsiotis, and to David Harris and the School of Law for granting me a scholarship to pursue my interest in international criminal law. | s 1 c E CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW Prosecuting International Crimes Selectivity and the International Criminal Law Regime ROBERT CRYER Cambridge more information - 9780521824743 This page intentionally left blank Prosecuting International Crimes This book discusses the legitimacy of the international criminal law regime. It explains the development of the system of international criminal law enforcement in historical context from antiquity through the Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials to today s prosecutions of atrocities in the former Yugoslavia Rwanda and Sierra Leone. The modern regime of prosecution of international crimes is evaluated with regard to international relations theory. The book then subjects that regime to a critique on the basis of legitimacy and the rule of law in particular selective enforcement not only in relation to who is prosecuted but also to the definitions of crimes and principles of liability used when people are prosecuted. It concludes that although selective enforcement is not as powerful as a critique of international criminal law as it was previously the creation of the International Criminal Court may also have narrowed the substantive rules of international criminal law. ROBERT CRYER is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Nottingham. He is the book review editor of the Journal of Conflict and Security Law. He teaches international law criminal law theory of criminal law theory of international law humanitarian law international criminal law and the law of collective security. He has taught in the United Kingdom Germany Austria Malaysia and South .