Overview
Proving International Crimes elucidates how international criminal tribunals have tackled the immense and complex task of proving international crimes such as genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The challenges posed by the scale and scope of these crimes and the distance in time and space between their commission and their prosecution are well-known. Nevertheless, investigators, lawyers, scholars, and policy makers often look to the law and practice of international criminal tribunals to establish what standards need to be met in the collection, preservation, presentation, and analysis of evidence to prove international crimes. In offering a comprehensive account of the law and practice of evidence before international criminal courts and tribunals to date, as well as recommendations for future practice, this book aims to inform domestic, regional, and international accountability processes for crimes going forward. This book demonstrates that, owing to the flexibility built in to the legal and procedural frameworks of international criminal courts and tribunals, the law of international criminal evidence is often unpredictable and uncertain. To this end, McDermott argues for the development of a coherent epistemic framework driven by two guiding principles: rectitude of decision and the highest standards of fairness.
Full Product Details
Author: Yvonne McDermott (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Swansea University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9780198842972
ISBN 10: 019884297
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 17 September 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
This book by Professor McDermott could not be timelier... [it] should have the effect of reminding all judges and practitioners of the need to ensure that those standards are both consistent and compliant with the ultimate goal of delivering justice to the victims of these egregious crimes by means of a fair trial process. * Her Excellency Judge Joanna Korner, International Criminal Court (from the foreword) * Yvonne McDermott, one of the world's leading experts on digital evidence, has produced a tour-de-force with Proving International Crimes. Her book makes complex legal concepts comprehensible while offering thoughtful considerations for shaping the future use of digital information in international trials. This book is destined to become a must-read for every scholar and practitioner of international criminal law. * Professor Alexa Koenig, University of California, Berkele *
Author Information
Yvonne McDermott is Professor of Law at Swansea University in the United Kingdom. She is, from 2022-2027, Principal Investigator on TRUE, a large multidisciplinary project exploring trust in user-generated evidence. Previously, she led OSR4Rights, a project funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council which examined how open-source evidence has transformed human rights fact-finding. Yvonne is Legal Advisor to the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), an Associate Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, and Editorial Committee Co-Chair of the Journal of International Criminal Justice.
