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    International crimes and the ad hoc tribunals / Guénaël Mettraux.

    • Title:International crimes and the ad hoc tribunals / Guénaël Mettraux.
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    • Author/Creator:Mettraux, Guénaël.
    • Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:International crimes.
      International criminal courts.
    • Description:xxxii, 442 p. ; 25 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-382) and index.
    • ISBN:0199271550 (hard cover : alk. paper)
    • Contents:Foreword / David Hunt
      1. General remarks - the creation and jurisdiction of the ad hoc tribunals
      2. Subject-matter jurisdiction and applicable law - customary international law and treaty law?
      3. Identifying customary international law and the role of judges in the customary process
      4. Binding precedents and internal jurisprudential hierarchy
      5. War crimes in the statutes of the ad hoc tribunals
      6. Chapeau elements of war crimes
      7. Grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions
      8. Other serious violations of the laws or customs of war : underlying offences
      9. War crimes in internal armed conflicts
      10. Crimes against humanity in the statutes of the ad hoc tribunals
      11. Chapeau elements of crimes against humanity
      12. Underlying offences
      13. Genocide and international criminal tribunals
      14. General or Chapeau elements of genocide
      15. Underlying offences
      16. Genocide and other forms of criminal involvement
      17. General remarks on participation
      18. Jurisdiction ratione personae and applicable law
      19. person of the perpetrator : who can commit an international crime?
      20. Article 7(1) of the ICTY statute and Article 6(1) of the ICTR statute : 'direct' participation
      21. Article 7(3) of the ICTY statute and Article 6(3) of the ICTR statute : command or superior responsibility
      22. Convictions under Articles 7(1) and 7(3) of the ICTY statute and Articles 6(1) and 6(3) of the ICTR statute
      23. Cumulative charging and cumulative convictions
      24. War crimes and crimes against humanity
      25. War crimes and genocide
      26. Genocide and crimes against humanity
      27. Applicable law and purposes of sentencing
      28. Relevant factors in sentencing
      29. Other available penalty : return of property
      30. Enforcement of sentences
      31. Concluding remarks.
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