Overview
1 In his separate opinion in the Nuclear Weapons case, Judge Mohammed Bed- oui, then the President of the International Court of Justice, called nuclear we- ons “the absolute evil. ” There are a few other things which merit being called - solutely evil. They are the predicates of the International Criminal Court and of various domestic laws patterned on the Rome Statute: war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and aggression. A conference organized by the Berlin-based Republikanischer Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein (Republican Lawyers As- ciation) and the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights was held in Berlin in June 2005 under the title Globalverfassung versus Realpolitik (Global Constitution versus Realpolitik). It dealt with the tension between these univ- sally accepted norms and the actual practice of governments in an age charact- ized by the ill-defined concept of the “war on terror. ” This book is the outcome of that conference. It is intended for a wide variety of readers: academics, all kinds of jurists, as well as human rights activists, who sometimes know more about the applicable law than the legal experts. It owes its existence to a paradox: On the one hand, new structures for dealing with the most serious international crimes are being put into place.
Full Product Details
Author: Wolfgang Kaleck ,
Michael Ratner ,
Tobias Singelnstein ,
Peter Weiss
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition: 2007 ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.365kg
ISBN: 9783540366485
ISBN 10: 3540366482
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 05 October 2006
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
From the reviews: The volume is a collection of essays that investigate current developments in the prosecution of human rights crimes on the national and international levels. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. (E. W. Webking, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (2), 2007) A timely and informative book that aims to assist a wide variety of readers interested in this area of law: academics, jurists, practitioners and human rights activists. ... The book contains very interesting and valuable information on the theory and practice of international justice. ... this book is essential reading for anyone who is generally interested in the relationship between law and politics at the international level and, in particular, in employing and/or analysing the use of international criminal law to enforce human rights. (Gabriela Echeverria, Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 8 (3), 2008)
From the reviews: <p> The volume is a collection of essays that investigate current developments in the prosecution of human rights crimes on the national and international levels. a ] Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. (E. W. Webking, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (2), 2007) <p> A timely and informative book that aims to assist a wide variety of readers interested in this area of law: academics, jurists, practitioners and human rights activists. a ] The book contains very interesting and valuable information on the theory and practice of international justice. a ] this book is essential reading for anyone who is generally interested in the relationship between law and politics at the international level and, in particular, in employing and/or analysing the use of international criminal law to enforce human rights. (Gabriela Echeverria, Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 8 (3), 2008)
From the reviews: The volume is a collection of essays that investigate current developments in the prosecution of human rights crimes on the national and international levels. ! Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. (E. W. Webking, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (2), 2007) A timely and informative book that aims to assist a wide variety of readers interested in this area of law: academics, jurists, practitioners and human rights activists. ! The book contains very interesting and valuable information on the theory and practice of international justice. ! this book is essential reading for anyone who is generally interested in the relationship between law and politics at the international level and, in particular, in employing and/or analysing the use of international criminal law to enforce human rights. (Gabriela Echeverria, Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 8 (3), 2008)
Aus den Rezensionen: Veranstaltet vom Republikanischen Anwaltinnen- und Anwalteverein ! und dem Center for Constitutional Rights !, fand im Juni 2005 in Berlin eine Konferenz ! Ergebnis dieser Konferenz ist der vorliegende Sammelband, der sich an ein breiteres Publikum richtet. Die ! Beitrage ! behandeln Grundfragen und neueste Entwicklungen im Bereich der Verfolgung von Menschenrechtsverbrechen auf innerstaatlicher und internationaler Ebene. Im Speziellen wird auf die Problematik des auWar on Terror eingegangen ! Diesen und weiteren Fragen widmen sich die Beitrage, die damit ein weites Spektrum der Themenstellungen umspannen! (Lukits, in: Newsletter Menschenrechte, 2007, Issue 1, S. 55)
