PROSECUTING INTERNATIONAL CRIMES SELECTIVITY AND THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW REGIMEPDF电子书下载

Introduction 1

Part Ⅰ The development of the international criminal law regime 9

1 The development of international criminal law 9

Introduction 9

Antiquity 11

The Middle Ages 13

The end of the age of chivalry and the 'classical' period of the law of nations 21

1700-1914 25

The First World War 31

The Second World War 36

The Cold War 48

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) 51

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) 54

The International Criminal Court (ICC) 57

Other developments in the post-Cold War era 60

Conclusion 72

2 International criminal law: State rights, responsibilities and problems 73

Introduction 73

Jurisdiction 75

Duties to extradite or prosecute? 101

Incorporation into domestic law and harmonisation 117

Conclusion 122

3 International Criminal Tribunals and the regime of international criminal law enforcement 124

Two special cases: Rwanda and former Yugoslavia 127

The Rome regime 142

Incorporation and harmonisation of international criminal law 167

Conclusion 184

Part Ⅱ Evaluating the regime 191

4 Selectivity in international criminal law 191

What selective enforcement involves 191

Selectivity in international criminal law 202

Conclusion 230

5 Selectivity and the law: Ⅰ - definitions of crimes 232

Introduction 232

'Safe' and 'unsafe' Tribunals 233

Custom, codification, legitimacy and the nullum crimen sine lege principle 238

Aggression 241

Genocide 245

Crimes against humanity 247

War crimes 262

Other crimes 285

Conclusion 286

6 Selectivity and the law: Ⅱ - general principles of liability and defences 289

Introduction 289

Defences 291

Principles of liability 308

Conclusion 325

Conclusion 327

Select bibliography 331

Index 347