International Criminal Law: A Collection of International and Regional Instruments. Fourth Revised Edition

International Criminal Law has become a mainstream subject. While it was hardly taught at law faculties at the time of the first edition of this book (1996), it is now highly featured in academic curricula. Practitioners, academics and political decision makers are increasingly confronted with this discipline. Within the framework of the United Nations and the European Union, but also in other regional bodies, there has been a dramatic increase in the conventions on various aspects of international criminal law. In fact much of the day-to-day work of lawyers around the globe is about the subject. International criminal law is gradually supple-menting human rights as the standard to assess governments and individuals. In the process, it has become part of the vocabulary of the general public. Many recent crisis situations have contributed to this phenomenon, from 11/9 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the Arab spring and SC Resolution 1973 (2011) giving effect to R2P in Libya. International criminal courts, which until some time ago, were still somewhat exotic, are now part of the mainstream international judicial establishment. The UN ad hoc tribunals together with the mixed tribunals and special courts have substantially con-tributed to the development of international criminal jurisprudence. Meanwhile the International Criminal Court is in full operation, delivering its first landmark decisions and dealing with an increasing number of situations and cases.In the European Union, the Lisbon Treaty is representing an important step towards the growing integration in the field of criminal law and procedure. A comparable trend is incipient in many other regions and organisations.This collection is meant to guide students and practitioners through the labyrinth of international criminal law instruments. It comprises international (universal) and Euro-pean conventions, while also including other regional instruments (AU/OAU, ASEAN, the Commonwealth, OAS and SAARC).

International Criminal Law

Christine Van den Wyngaert

Foreign & International Law

BRILL

This text is intended as a guide through the various treaties in the field of criminal law. It presents a selection of the most important international and European instruments, including: the Europol Convention (1995); the anti-fraud convention of the European Union (1995); the Council of Europe's Draft Convention on crimes against the environment (1996); the Organization of American States' Convention against Corruption (1996); and the International Law Commission's Draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind (1996).

International Criminal Law : A Collection of International and European Instruments

Springer

More and more, international criminal law is becoming a fact of day-to-day life in an ever-globalizing village. Legal practitioners, judges, prosecutors, defence attorneys and civil servants in ministries are increasingly confronted with issues of international criminal law. The jurisprudence of the Yugoslavia tribunal in The Hague has intensified academic interest in the subject and is changing traditional attitudes towards the law. National courts have to address difficult questions of international criminal law. For example, in 1998, 1999, and 2000, Spanish, French, Belgian, English, and Chilean judges had to decide on different aspects of the case against Mr. Pinochet, obliging them to look at questions such as genocide, torture, crimes against humanity, terrorism, and forced disappearances. In recent years, there has been an exponential growth in the number of instruments in the field of international criminal law. Prominent examples are the Rome Statute for an International Criminal Court (1998), the Conventions on Terrorist Bombings (1998) and on the Financing of Terrorism (2000), and the EU Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters (2000). The present collection is a selection of the most important instruments. It is meant to guide students and practitioners through the labyrinth and focusses is on international (universal) and European instruments.

International Criminal Law : A Collection of International and European Instruments (Revised)

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International Criminal Law

International Criminal Law : A Collection of International and European Instruments

International Criminal Law : A Collection of International and European Instruments (Revised)