Bøger i THE INTERNATIONAL COURTS & TRIBUNALS SERIES serien

In response to the weaknesses of international tribunals and domestic courts in the prosecution of crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, a new generation of "internationalized" criminal courts has been established. This book addresses three active and one putative jurisdiction of this kind in East Timor, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia.

This book provides an examination of the jurisprudence of a range of international courts and tribunals relating to issues of procedure and remedies. It also offers an assessment of whether there are emerging commonalities regarding these issues which could make up a unified law of international adjudication.

Based on over 30 interviews, this book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary portrait of international judges, their work and the men and women in this new global profession. It offers a balanced introduction to judges' work on issues of war and peace, human rights and trade, and high-profile criminal trials.

Re-examines the law and practice of the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. This book examines their use of provisional measures both for the peaceful settlement of international disputes and, where appropriate, for protecting individual rights.

This work examines the compliance record of states parties to proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial body of the United Nations. It undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the follow-up of the ICJ's judgments and interim measures from the Court's creation in 1945 until the present day.

Seeks to investigate problems relating to the increased interaction between national and international courts, which have resulted in the litigation of the same legal issues before national and international judicial bodies: What is the proper order of the proceedings? Should national and international proceedings take place concurrently?

TThis book provides an in depth-examination of the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the implications of that principle for the suppression of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes on the domestic level.