Child Soldiers and the Defence of Duress under International Criminal Law
Authors: Nortje, Windell, Quénivet, Noëlle
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- Identifies a normative legal framework that helps understand how the defence of duress is interpreted and applied in international criminal law
- Develops the theme of perpetrators who are also victims and offers a nuanced approach towards perpetrators of mass atrocities
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- About this book
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This book investigates the use of duress as a defence in international criminal law, specifically in cases of child soldiers. The prosecution of children for international crimes often only focuses on whether children can and should be prosecuted under international law. However, it is rarely considered what would happen to these children at the trial stage. This work offers a nuanced approach towards international prosecution and considers how children could be implicated and defended in international courts. This study will be of interest to academics and practitioners working in international criminal law, transitional justice and children’s rights.
- About the authors
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Windell Nortje is Associate Lecturer in the Law Faculty at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
Noëlle Quénivet is Associate Professor in International Law at the Bristol Law School, University of the West of England, UK.
- Reviews
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“Although legal scholarship is replete with references to child soldiers being victims as well as perpetrators, this is the first study to carefully examine how that dichotomy would affect an actual prosecution of a child soldier for an international crime. The authors demonstrate with great skill that the most relevant defence available in such a prosecution — duress — is simply incapable of adequately capturing the complex nature of a child soldier’s culpability. Lawyers and judges, and scholars alike should heed their warning.” (Kevin Jon Heller, Associate Professor of Public International Law, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Professor of Law, Australian National University, Australia)
“Duress is a controversial defence, both at the national and the international level. Finally, we have a thorough and compelling study on the matter, the work of two distinguished international criminal law scholars. It arrives not a moment too soon, as the International Criminal Court confronts the issue in the Ongwen case.” (William A. Schabas, Professor of International Law, Middlesex University, UK)
“This book offers a clever and detailed doctrinal examination of the intersection of duress and youth, which, along the way, also sheds light on vexing questions of agency and intent amid processes of brainwashing and searing social constraint.” (Mark A. Drumbl, Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University, USA)
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-19
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Duress as a Defence Under International Criminal Law
Pages 21-47
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The Application of the Requirements of Duress to Child Soldiers
Pages 49-86
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Limits of, and Exclusions from, the Defence of Duress
Pages 87-108
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Duress as an Excuse Defence for International Crimes
Pages 109-144
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Child Soldiers and the Defence of Duress under International Criminal Law
- Authors
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- Windell Nortje
- Noëlle Quénivet
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-20663-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-20663-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-20662-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-20665-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 160
- Topics
