Overview
- Constitutes the first comprehensive analysis of both systems of enforcement of international criminal law, and rigorously examines the relationship between them in one book with the same lens
- Provides a global jurisprudential exposition in assessing the grounds for refusal of surrender to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and of extradition to another State
- Undertakes an autopsy of the obligation to extradite or prosecute (aut dedere aut judicare) under international law
- Offers insights on how the enforcement of international criminal law can be consolidated and improved, both under substantive international criminal law and under procedural international criminal law, with special reference to cooperation mechanisms devised to combat system criminality
- Espouses a human rights law-oriented critique to the general enforcement of domestic, regional and international criminal justice
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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The Characterisation and Prosecution of Core Crimes: Some Underlying Assumptions
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The Vertical System of Enforcement
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About this book
The book espouses a human rights law-oriented critique to the enforcement of domestic, regional and international criminal justice and is aimed at legal practitioners (prosecutors, defence lawyers, magistrates and judges), jurists, criminal justice experts, penologists, legal researchers, human rights activists and law students.
Christopher Soler lectures Maltese criminal law, international criminal law and public international law at the University of Malta. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Global Prosecution of Core Crimes under International Law
Authors: Christopher Soler
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-335-1
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press The Hague
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: T.M.C. Asser Press and the author 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-334-4Published: 02 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-337-5Published: 02 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6265-335-1Published: 18 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 695
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Criminal Law , Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Human Rights and Crime