This book examines international criminal law from a normative perspective and lays out how responsible agents, individuals and the collectives they comprise, ought to be held accountable to the world for the commission of atrocity. The author provides criteria for determining the kinds of actions that should be addressed through international criminal law. Additionally, it asks, and answers, how individual responsibility can be determined in the context of collectively perpetrated political crimes and whether an international criminal justice system can claim universality in a culturally plural world. The book alsoexamines the function of international criminal law and finally considers howthe goals and purposes of international law can best be institutionally supported.
- ISBN: 978-0-415-67198-9
- Editorial: Routledge
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 02/09/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés