By Larry May, Zachary Hoskins
Foreign legal legislation and Philosophy is the 1st anthology to compile felony and philosophical theorists to check the normative and conceptual foundations of overseas felony legislation. specifically, via those essays the overseas workforce of authors addresses questions of country sovereignty; of teams, instead of contributors, as perpetrators and sufferers of overseas crimes; of overseas legal legislations and the promoting of human rights and social justice; and of what comes after foreign felony prosecutions, specifically, punishment and reconciliation. foreign felony legislation remains to be an rising box, and because it keeps to increase, the elucidation of transparent, constant theoretical groundings for its practices could be an important. The questions raised and concerns addressed by means of the essays during this quantity will reduction during this vital undertaking.
Read or Download International Criminal Law and Philosophy (ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory) PDF
Best jurisprudence books
Studying the suggestions of goal and causation in euthanasia, this well timed new publication explores a huge collection of disciplines, together with legal and scientific legislations, clinical ethics, philosophy and social coverage and indicates another approach to the single at the moment utilized by the courts, in accordance with grading diverse different types of killing right into a formalized justificatory defence.
The Development of Persistent Criminality
The improvement of power illegal activity addresses essentially the most urgent difficulties of contemporary criminology: Why do a little members develop into persistent, continual offenders? simply because power offenders are accountable for the vast majority of critical crimes devoted, figuring out which people turns into persistent offenders is a vital step in aiding us improve interventions.
- Modernising and Harmonising Consumer Contract Law: With Reference to the Planned Horizontal Consumer Contract Directive
- Behind the Walls: A Guide for Families and Friends of Texas Prison Inmates (North Texas Crime and Criminal Justice Series, 1)
- Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law
- Topica y jurisprudencia
- Logica del concepto juridico
Extra info for International Criminal Law and Philosophy (ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory)
Example text
21 On this account, it would be clear that the joint interest involved in the universal suppression of piracy that Cassese has in mind, whatever else it might be, would not involve the violation of universally recognized human rights and humanitarian considerations. This explanation is clearly not adequate. Through the suppression of piracy, states presumably are also seeking to protect, besides economic interests, values such as security in person and property, which are clearly among the human rights and values laid down by the international community via various international instruments, although it might be a bit anachronistic to say so in relation to piracy.
Thus, justice would require that individuals not enforce their own rights and yield to states or international political entities if the latter are willing and able to exercise their universal jurisdiction to adjudicate these cases more reliably. 30 Nor do we mean necessarily to exclude such a state from doing so when it shows the interest, as well as the capability, to bring justice to these cases. In fact, there may be I have argued for universal jurisdiction in relation to the concern about the impunity of perpetrators of serious harms at much greater length in “Terrorism and Universal Jurisdiction,” 208–14.
It is this approach with which I am taking issue here. I assume that crimes against the international community or humanity as a whole are not victimless crimes in the relevant sense. , in a way that is not reducible to their individual members being better- or worse-off ), that is not what the relevant part of international criminal law is fundamentally about. Take genocide, for example. Even if it is the case that the eradication of an entire ethnic group from the face of the earth makes humanity as a whole worse-off in a nonreductive way, it is the harm done to individuals who are killed, persecuted, or denied their group identity in genocidal acts that is the primary concern for international criminal law.