Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law: Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy - Softcover

Ratner, Steven R.; Abrams, Jason; Bischoff, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199546673 ISBN 13: 9780199546671

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

The fall of dictatorial regimes and the eruption of destructive civil conflicts around the world have led to calls for holding individuals accountable for human rights atrocities. This book offers a comprehensive study of the promise and limitations of international criminal law as a means of enforcing international human rights and humanitarian law. It provides a searching analysis of the principal crimes under the law of nations, such as genocide and crimes against humanity and an appraisal of the most important prosecutorial and other mechanisms developed to bring individuals to justice. After applying their conclusions in a detailed case study, the authors offer a series of compelling conclusions on the prospects for accountability.

This fully updated new edition also contains expanded coverage of the increasing numbers of international criminal trials including the cases of Bosnia, Serbia, and East Timor. It also explores individual accountability for terrorist acts and accountability for acts undertaken in the name of counter-terrorism policy, and provides expanded coverage of aggression and crimes against peace.

About this title

About the Author:

Steven R. Ratner, is Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Jason S. Abrams, Consultant to the United Nations
James L. Bischoff, Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the United States Department of State

Review:

Acclaim for the Previous Edition:
"Ratner and Abrams provide an incisive, knowledgeable, and comprehensive look at the substantive law and legal institutions that inhabit the intersection of international human rights law. The need to hold individuals responsible for abuses of human dignity in war and peace has lately assumed critical importance for the global community. This volume, with its searching appraisal of contemporary doctrinal issues as well as the promises and pitfalls of mechanisms for accountability, is a timely and essential resource for any scholar or practitioner with an interest in these areas of international law."
--Richard J. Goldstone

"A timely and highly valuable contribution to the emerging literature on the subject... An outstanding book that is concise and accessible to a broad audience, yet comprehensive and scholarly. This excellent book provides a thoroughly researched and within which these and other complex issues may be examined. It combines scholarly erudition with a practical sense and thus provides a valuable instrument for the pursuit of international justice. It is indispensable reading for students, practitioners, scholars and others interested in accountability for gross human rights abuses."
--The American Journal of International Law

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199546673
• ISBN 13: 9780199546671
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 536