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Title

Accountability for human rights atrocities in international law : beyond the Nuremberg legacy / Steven R. Ratner, Jason S. Abrams.

Author

Ratner, Steven R.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Abrams, Jason S.

Description

xlvii, 435 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"More than a half century after the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, nations around the world are increasingly grappling with the need to hold individuals accountable for human rights atrocities. In this innovative book, now in its second edition, Steven R. Ratner and Jason S. Abrams offer a comprehensive study of the promises and limitations of individual accountability as a means of enforcing international human rights and humanitarian law. They provide a searching analysis of the principal crimes under the law of nations, such as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, and go on to appraise the range of prosecutorial and other mechanisms for holding abusers responsible. The authors conclude with a series of compelling conclusions about the future of accountability. The second edition includes developments since 1997, including new domestic prosecutions and truth commissions, the work of the UN's Yugoslavia and Rwanda tribunals, and the International Criminal Court"--Unedited summary from book cover.

Subject

• Crimes against humanity
• Criminal liability
• International crimes
• International criminal law

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-426) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Individual accountability for human rights abuses: historical and legal underpinnings -- Genocide and the imperfections of codification -- Crimes against humanity and the inexactitude of custom -- War crimes and the limitations of accountability for acts in armed conflict -- Other abuses incurring individual responsibility under international law -- Expanding and contracting culpability: related crimes, defenses, and other barriers to criminality -- Mechanisms and accountability: framing the issues -- The forum of first resort: national tribunals -- The progeny of Nuremberg: international criminal tribunals -- Non-prosecutorial options: investigatory commissions, civil suits, and immigration measures -- Developing the case: comments on evidence and judicial assistance -- The Khmer Rouge rule over Cambodia: a historical overview -- Applying the law -- Engaging the mechanisms -- Striving for justice: the prospects for individual accountability -- Appendices.

ISBN

0198298714 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2001021641

OCLC

46619036

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library