Beschreibung:
Jonathan Hafetz is Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law, New Jersey.
Punishing Atrocities through a Fair Trial examines the tension between punishing mass atrocity and ensuring a fair trial for defendants.
Introduction; 1. Creating the template: Nuremberg and the post-World War II international prosecutions; 2. International criminal law's revival and the challenges of implementation; 3. The creation of a permanent international criminal court; 4. Procedure and fairness in a decentralized system; 5. The selectivity challenge in international criminal law; 6. Achieving accountability and fairness: a window into the recurring debate over treating terrorism as an international crime; Concluding remarks.