Punishing Atrocities through a Fair Trial: International Criminal Law from Nuremberg to the Age of Global Terrorism
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| Anteprima |
Over
the past decades, international criminal law has evolved to become the
operative norm for addressing the worst atrocities. Tribunals have
conducted hundreds of trials addressing mass violence in the former
Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, and other countries to bring
to justice perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against
humanity. But international courts have struggled to hold perpetrators
accountable for these offenses while still protecting the fair trial
rights of defendants. Punishing Atrocities through a Fair Trial explores
this tension, from criticism of the Nuremberg Trials as 'victor's
justice' to the accusations of political motivations clouding
prosecutions today by the International Criminal Court. It explains why
international criminal law must adhere to transparent principles of
legality and due process to ensure its future as a legitimate and viable
legal regime.
