Pluralism In International Criminal Law

Author : Elies van Sliedregt
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191008281
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Pluralism in International Criminal Law written by Elies van Sliedregt and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the growth in international criminal courts and tribunals, the majority of cases concerning international criminal law are prosecuted at the domestic level. This means that both international and domestic courts have to contend with a plethora of relevant, but often contradictory, judgments by international institutions and by other domestic courts. This book provides a detailed investigation into the impact this pluralism has had on international criminal law and procedure, and examines the key problems which arise from it. The work identifies the various interpretations of the concept of pluralism and discusses how it manifests in a broad range of aspects of international criminal law and practice. These include substantive jurisdiction, the definition of crimes, modes of individual criminal responsibility for international crimes, sentencing, fair trial rights, law of evidence, truth-finding, and challenges faced by both international and domestic courts in gathering, testing and evaluating evidence. Authored by leading practitioners and academics in the field, the book employs pluralism as a methodological tool to advance the debate beyond the classic view of 'legal pluralism' leading to a problematic fragmentation of the international legal order. It argues instead that pluralism is a fundamental and indispensable feature of international criminal law which permeates it on several levels: through multiple legal regimes and enforcement fora, diversified sources and interpretations of concepts, and numerous identities underpinning the law and practice. The book addresses the virtues and dangers of pluralism, reflecting on the need for, and prospects of, harmonization of international criminal law around a common grammar. It ultimately brings together the theories of legal pluralism, the comparative law discourse on legal transplants, harmonization, and convergence, and the international legal debate on fragmentation to show where pluralism and divergence will need to be accepted as regular, and even beneficial, features of international criminal justice.

Author : Paul Schiff Berman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0197516742
Total Pages : 1133 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Global Legal Pluralism written by Paul Schiff Berman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 1133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abstract Global legal pluralism has become one of the leading analytical frameworks for understanding and conceptualizing law in the twenty-first century"--

Author : Justin Su-Wan Yang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000450333
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Domestic Legal Pluralism and the International Criminal Court written by Justin Su-Wan Yang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the unique historical development of Islamic Shari’a criminal law alongside English common law in northern Nigeria has created a hybridised criminal legal system through a pluralist dynamic of mutual accommodation. It studies how this system may potentially be accommodated by the International Criminal Court. The work examines how this could be accommodated through the current understanding and operation of complementarity, and that it could ultimately prove to be preferable in encouraging the Shari’a courts to exercise criminal justice over the radical insurgents in northern Nigeria. These courts would have the unprecedented ability to combine binding adjudicative judgments together with religious interpretation and guidance, which can directly combat the predominantly unchallenged domain of ideology by extremist actors. It is submitted that these pluralist perspectives are timely and welcome, given the undeniably Western European foundations of modern International Criminal Law. In exploring such potential avenues, our shared understanding of modern international criminal justice is widened to necessarily include other stakeholders beyond its Western founders. It is the aim and hope that such interactions and engagements with non-Western traditions and cultures will lead to a greater shared ownership of the international criminal justice project, which will only strengthen the global fight against impunity. The book will be essential reading for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of International Criminal Law, Legal Pluralism, Islamic Shari’a Law, Nigeria, and religiously-inspired violence.

Author : Kamari Maxine Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521889103
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Fictions of Justice written by Kamari Maxine Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how notions of justice are negotiated through everyday micropractices and grassroots contestations of those practices.

Author : Larissa van den Herik
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9004214593
Total Pages : 735 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Diversification and Fragmentation of International Criminal Law written by Larissa van den Herik and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the tension between unity and diversification which has gained a central place in the debate under the label of ‘fragmentation’. It explores the meaning, articulation and risks of this phenomenon in a specific area: International Criminal Justice. It brings together established and fresh voices who analyse different sites and contestations of this concept, as well as its context and specific manifestations in the interpretation and application of International Criminal Law. The volume thereby connects discourse on ‘fragmentation’ with broader inquiry on the merits and discontents of legal pluralism in ‘Public International Law’.

Author : Julie Fraser
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839107308
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Intersections of Law and Culture at the International Criminal Court written by Julie Fraser and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering book explores the intersections of law and culture at the International Criminal Court (ICC), offering insights into how notions of culture affect the Court’s legal foundations, functioning and legitimacy, both in theory and in practice.

Author : Paul Schiff Berman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107376912
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Global Legal Pluralism written by Paul Schiff Berman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world of legal pluralism, where a single act or actor is potentially regulated by multiple legal or quasi-legal regimes imposed by state, substate, transnational, supranational and nonstate communities. Navigating these spheres of complex overlapping legal authority is confusing and we cannot expect territorial borders to solve all these problems. At the same time, those hoping to create one universal set of legal rules are also likely to be disappointed by the sheer variety of human communities and interests. Instead, we need an alternative jurisprudence, one that seeks to create or preserve spaces for productive interaction among multiple, overlapping legal systems by developing procedural mechanisms, institutions and practices that aim to manage, without eliminating, the legal pluralism we see around us. Global Legal Pluralism provides a broad synthesis across a variety of legal doctrines and academic disciplines and offers a novel conceptualization of law and globalization.

Author : Mireille Delmas-Marty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847315313
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Ordering Pluralism written by Mireille Delmas-Marty and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the viewpoint of the constitutional crisis in Europe, slow UN reforms, difficulties implementing the Kyoto Protocol and the International Criminal Court, and tensions between human rights and trade, Mireille Delmas-Marty's 'journey through the legal landscape' of the early years of the 21st century shows it to be dominated by imprecision, uncertainty and instability. The early 21st century appears to be the era of great disorder: in the silence of the market and the fracas of arms, a world overly fragmented by anarchical globalisation is being unified too quickly through hegemonic integration. How, she asks, can we move beyond the relative and the universal to build order without imposing it, to accept pluralism without giving up on a common law? Neither utopian fusion nor illusory autonomy, Ordering Pluralism is her answer: both an epistemological revolution and an art, it means creating a common legal area by progressive adjustments that preserve diversity. Since an immutable world order is impossible, the imaginative forces of law must be called upon to invent a flexible process of harmonisation that leaves room for believing we can agree on - and protect - common values. 'The book is timely and relevant to the practical concerns of those who work with, and within, the legal system. We must thank Professor Delmas-Marty for her fine work.' From the foreword, Stephen Breyer, Washington, DC

Author : Oriol Casanovas
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004480781
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Unity and Pluralism in Public International Law written by Oriol Casanovas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proliferation of international courts and the extension of international regulation to new areas have been considered to be threatening for the unity of Public International Law as a legal system. These developments are the consequence of the increasing formation of legal subsystems (material international regimes) which continue to grow in complexity. How these trends affect the unity of the international legal system requires theoretical scrutiny of its fundamental bases. This work considers that the unity of the international legal system depends upon its normative structure, and on the social medium in which it is applied: the evolving international community. A unified international legal system has as its ultimate goal the protection of human dignity through the international regulation of human rights. The question of the unifying stability of the international legal system and the development of legal subsystems within it encourages a review of the major issues of current Public International Law, considering the evolution from traditional doctrines to recent approaches. This review is done from an analytical frame that provides a deeper understanding of the current situation of Public International Law as a legal system.

Author : Kamari Maxine Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511538520
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Fictions of Justice written by Kamari Maxine Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how notions of justice are negotiated through everyday micropractices and grassroots contestations of those practices.