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Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law Steven R. Ratner (Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School)

Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law By Steven R. Ratner (Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School)

Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law by Steven R. Ratner (Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School)

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This book explores the promise and limitations of international criminal law as a means of enforcing international human rights and humanitarian law. It analyses the principal crimes, such as genocide and crimes against humanity, and appraises the mechanisms developed to bring individuals to justice.

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Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law: Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy by Steven R. Ratner (Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School)

This book explores the promises and limitations of holding individuals accountable for violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. It analyses the principal crimes under international law, such as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, and appraises both prosecutorial and other key mechanisms developed to bring individuals to justice. After applying their conclusions in a detailed case study, the authors offer a series of compelling conclusions on the prospects for accountability. This fully updated new edition contains expanded coverage of national trials under universal jurisdiction, international criminal tribunals including the International Criminal Court, new hybrid tribunals in Cambodia and elsewhere, truth commissions, and lustration. It also explores individual accountability for terrorist acts and for abuses committed in the name of counter-terrorism policy.

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Review from previous edition Ratner and Abrams provide an incisive, knowledgeable, and comprehensive look at the substantive law and legal institutions that inhabit the intersection of international human rights law. The need to hold individuals responsible for abuses of human dignity in war and peace has lately assumed critical importance for the global community. This volume, with its searching appraisal of contemporary doctrinal issues as well as the promises and pitfalls of mechanisms for accountability, is a timely and essential resource for any scholar or practitioner with an interest in these areas of international law. * Richard J. Goldstone *
a timely and highly valuable contribution to the emerging literature on the subject ... an outstanding book that is concise and accessible to a broad audience, yet comprehensive and scholarly ... This excellent book provides a thoroughly researched and eloquently written survey of the legal and policy framework within which these and other complex issues may be examined. It combines scholarly erudition with a practical sense and thus provides a valuable instrument for the pursuit of international justice. It is indispensable reading for students, practitioners, scholars and others interested in accountability for gross human rights abuses. * Payam Akhavan, The American Journal of International Law (Vol 93) *
The authors' analysis of the technical points are illuminating and their case study of the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge makes the work all the more compelling. * Democracy & Development - Journal of West African Affairs, Vol. 3, No. 1, *
The breadth of research that has gone into producing this work is plain on every page...What for me is remarkable is that a work of such academic pedigree and intellectual excellence should be such an eminently readable review of all aspects of individual criminal responsibility and international criminal law past, present and potential. * Lord Bonomy, Senator of the College of Justice *

About Steven R. Ratner (Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School)

Steven R. Ratner is Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He was previously the Albert Sidney Burleson Professor in Law at the University of Texas School of Law (Austin) and an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. State Department. Jason S. Abrams is a consultant to the United Nations. He has served as Legal Officer, Policy Coordination Officer and Consultant to the United Nations. His work has included private international matters involving UN Headquarters and Peacekeeping Missions, landmines, and management reform initiatives. Earlier in his career, Mr. Abrams was an Attorney-Adviser for the U.S. Department of State. James L. Bischoff is an Attourney-Advisor in the Office of the Legal Advisor of the United Nations Department of State. He previously worked as an Associate Legal Officer at the ICTY and served on the Secretariat of the standing committee charged with proposing amendments to the Tribunal's Rules of Procedure and Evidence.

Table of Contents

PART I: SUBSTANTIVE LAW ; 1. Individual Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: Historical and Legal Underpinnings ; 2. Genocide and the Imperfections of Codification ; 3. Crimes Against Humanity and the Inexactitude of Custom ; 4. War Crimes and the Limitations of Accountability for Acts in Armed Conflict ; 5. Other Abuses Incurring Individual Responsibility under International Law ; 6. Expanding and Contracting Culpability: Complicity, Defenses, and Other Barriers to Criminality ; PART II: MECHANISMS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY ; 7. Mechanisms for Accountability: Framing the Issues ; 8. The Forum of First Resort: National Tribunals ; 9. The Progeny of Nuremberg: International Criminal Tribunals ; 10. Non-Prosecutorial Options: Investigatory Comissions, Civil Suits, Immigration Measures, and Lustration ; 11. Developing the Case: Comments on Evidence and Judicial Assistance ; PART III: A CASE STUDY: THE ATTROCITIES OF THE KHMER ROUGE ; 12. The Khmer Rouge Rule over Cambodia: A Historical Overview ; 13. Applying the Law ; 14. Engaging the Mechanisms ; PART IV: CONCLUSIONS ; 15. Striving for Justice: The Prospects for Individual Accountability ; Appendices

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9780199546664
0199546665
Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law: Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy by Steven R. Ratner (Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School)
Steven R. Ratner (Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School)
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Oxford University Press
2009-01-29
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