Author | : Martha Minow |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2015-04-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0472052519 |
Legal scholars and practitioners examine the role of the ICC’s first prosecutor
Author | : Martha Minow |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2015-04-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0472052519 |
Legal scholars and practitioners examine the role of the ICC’s first prosecutor
Author | : Martha Minow |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2015-04-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0472120867 |
The establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) gave rise to the first permanent Office of the Prosecutor (OTP), with independent powers of investigation and prosecution. Elected in 2003 for a nine-year term as the ICC’s first Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo established policies and practices for when and how to investigate, when to pursue prosecution, and how to obtain the cooperation of sovereign nations. He laid a foundation for the OTP’s involvement with the United Nations Security Council, state parties, nongovernmental organizations, victims, the accused, witnesses, and the media. This volume of essays presents the first sustained examination of this unique office and offers a rare look into international justice. The contributors, ranging from legal scholars to practitioners of international law, explore the spectrum of options available to the OTP, the particular choices Moreno Ocampo made, and issues ripe for consideration as his successor, Fatou B. Bensouda, assumes her duties. The beginning of Bensouda’s term thus offers the perfect opportunity to examine the first Prosecutor’s singular efforts to strengthen international justice, in all its facets.
Author | : Luc Reydams |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1029 |
Release | : 2012-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199554293 |
The prosecution plays a crucial part in any international war crimes trial, but its role is rarely analysed. This book will assess the work of the prosecutor in a dozen international criminal courts and tribunals, setting out the applicable rules and analysing his or her independence, accountability, and political impact.
Author | : Nazir Afzal |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2020-04-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1473571480 |
The outsider who transformed our justice system Nazir Afzal knows a thing or two about justice. As a Chief Prosecutor, it was his job to make sure the most complex, violent and harrowing crimes made it to court, and that their perpetrators were convicted. From the Rochdale sex ring to the earliest prosecutions for honour killing and modern slavery, Nazir was at the forefront of the British legal system for decades. But his story begins in Birmingham, in the sixties, as a young boy facing racist violence and the tragic death of a young family member - and it's this that sets him on the path to his groundbreaking career, and which enables him to help communities that the conventional justice system ignores, giving a voice to the voiceless. A memoir of struggle and survival as well as crime and punishment, The Prosecutor is both a searing insight into the justice system and a powerful story of one man's pursuit of the truth.
Author | : Mark Kersten |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2016-08-04 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0191082945 |
What happens when the international community simultaneously pursues peace and justice in response to ongoing conflicts? What are the effects of interventions by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the wars in which the institution intervenes? Is holding perpetrators of mass atrocities accountable a help or hindrance to conflict resolution? This book offers an in-depth examination of the effects of interventions by the ICC on peace, justice and conflict processes. The 'peace versus justice' debate, wherein it is argued that the ICC has either positive or negative effects on 'peace', has spawned in response to the Court's propensity to intervene in conflicts as they still rage. This book is a response to, and a critical engagement with, this debate. Building on theoretical and analytical insights from the fields of conflict and peace studies, conflict resolution, and negotiation theory, the book develops a novel analytical framework to study the Court's effects on peace, justice, and conflict processes. This framework is applied to two cases: Libya and northern Uganda. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the core of the book examines the empirical effects of the ICC on each case. The book also examines why the ICC has the effects that it does, delineating the relationship between the interests of states that refer situations to the Court and the ICC's institutional interests, arguing that the negotiation of these interests determines which side of a conflict the ICC targets and thus its effects on peace, justice, and conflict processes. While the effects of the ICC's interventions are ultimately and inevitably mixed, the book makes a unique contribution to the empirical record on ICC interventions and presents a novel and sophisticated means of studying, analyzing, and understanding the effects of the Court's interventions in Libya, northern Uganda - and beyond.
Author | : Preet Bharara |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2019-03-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0525521135 |
*A New York Times Bestseller* An important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our survival as a society—from the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, and host of the Doing Justice podcast. Preet Bharara has spent much of his life examining our legal system, pushing to make it better, and prosecuting those looking to subvert it. Bharara believes in our system and knows it must be protected, but to do so, he argues, we must also acknowledge and allow for flaws both in our justice system and in human nature. Bharara uses the many illustrative anecdotes and case histories from his storied, formidable career—the successes as well as the failures—to shed light on the realities of the legal system and the consequences of taking action. Inspiring and inspiringly written, Doing Justice gives us hope that rational and objective fact-based thinking, combined with compassion, can help us achieve truth and justice in our daily lives. Sometimes poignant and sometimes controversial, Bharara's expose is a thought-provoking, entertaining book about the need to find the humanity in our legal system as well as in our society.
Author | : John Bobo |
Publisher | : Tower Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Criminal justice, Administration of |
ISBN | : 9781932056952 |
Real advice for new & experienced prosecutors from an author that has lived the District Attorney's life.
Author | : David M. Crane |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108424163 |
Focuses on the four individuals who created the world's first international tribunals and how they sought justice for millions of victims.