Research Catalog

Title

Africa's role and contribution to international criminal justice / edited by Jeremy Sarkin, Ellah T.M. Siang'andu.

Publication

• Cambridge ; Antwerp ; Chicago : Intersentia, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sarkin-Hughes, Jeremy
• Siang'andu, Twaambo Ellah Mapenzi

Description

xiii, 284 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"This book explores a range of issues related to the development, application and enforcement of international criminal justice within Africa and on Africa. Written by experts from Africa, and adopting African perspectives, this book seeks to understand the scope and reach of these issues, nationally, regionally and globally. 'Africa's Role and Contribution to International Criminal Justice' engages in theoretical and policy discourses on the substantive and procedural features of criminal law and justice in the African context. A range of topical issues are examined by the contributors, such as the ways in which African states have dealt with issues of universal jurisdiction and how victims are treated, as well as controversial questions concerning how courts function and should function in dealing with these issues. The ideas, themes, institutions, practices, concepts and patterns of convergence of criminal justice systems in Africa are also explored. This book aims to establish a greater understanding of international criminal justice and its relation to Africa, and beyond. Further, it seeks to expand the conversation beyond the narrow topics that are so commonly discussed when matters of African criminal justice considered."--Back cover.

Series Statement

Series supranational criminal law : capita selecta ; volume 26

Uniform Title

Series Supranational criminal law ; v. 26.

Subject

• International criminal law > Africa
• Criminal law > Africa
• Universal jurisdiction
• Criminal law
• International criminal law
• Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction : Understanding the meaning, context, role and importance of African criminal justice on the continent and beyond / Jeremy Sarkin and Ellah T.M. Siang'andu -- Types of international criminal courts in Africa / Lydia A. Nkansah -- The Extraordinary African Chambers in the Senegalese courts and the development of international criminal law in Africa / Juan Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevdeo -- The use of international criminal law in African countries / Ellah T.M. Siang'andu -- The Nuremberg principles in the context of Africa : the theory and practice of individual and corporate criminal responsibility / Evelyne Owiye Asaala -- The application of universal jurisdiction in Africa / O'Brien Kaaba -- African victims of mass atrocities before domestic jurisdictions and the International Criminal Court : bargaining for justice / Felix Mukwiza Ndahinda -- The role of the International Criminal Court in Africa : the epic fails? / Max du Plessis and Christopher Gevers -- Is the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights With Criminal Jurisdiction an African solution to an African problem? / Jeremy Sarkin -- Head of State immunity in the African context / Godfrey Mupanga -- Index.

Call Number

ReCAP 22-10187

ISBN

• 1780689071
• 9781780689074

OCLC

1153823143

Title

Africa's role and contribution to international criminal justice / edited by Jeremy Sarkin, Ellah T.M. Siang'andu.

Publisher

Cambridge ; Antwerp ; Chicago : Intersentia, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Series supranational criminal law : capita selecta ; volume 26

Series Supranational criminal law ; v. 26.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Sarkin-Hughes, Jeremy, editor.

Siang'andu, Twaambo Ellah Mapenzi, editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-10187