Law Commons^™

Debra L. Delaet On War Crimes And Genocide, Debra L. Delaet

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder by Daniel Chirot and Clark McCauley. Princeton University Press, 2006. 288 pp.

and

The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda by Scott Straus. Cornell University Press, 2006. 273 pp.

and

The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in the Hague by Eric Stover. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 252 pp.

Transnational Networks And International Criminal Justice, Jenia Iontcheva Turner

Michigan Law Review

The theory of transgovernmental networks describes how government officials make law and policy on issues of global concern by coordinating informally across borders, without legal or official sanction. Scholars have argued that this sort of coordination is useful in many different areas of cross-border regulation, including banking, antitrust, environmental protection, and securities law. One area to which the theory has not yet been applied is international criminal law. For a number of reasons, until recently, international criminal law had not generated the same transgovernmental networks that have emerged in other fields. With few exceptions, international criminal law had been enforced …

Advances And Missed Opportunities In The International Prosecution Of Gender-Based Crimes, Susana Sacouto

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

INTRODUCTION: In the past decade, and particularly since 1998, there has been an incredible transformation in the treatment of sex-based and gender- based violence' in the fields of international humanitarian law and international criminal law. Before this, crimes committed exclusively or disproportionately against women and girls, in times of conflict, were largely either ignored, or at most, treated as secondary to other crimes. Despite the fact that rape and other forms of sexual violence had been widely reported during World War HI, for instance, the crime of rape was not expressly included in either the London Charter, establishing the International …

Discuss The Relationship Between Command Responsibility And Jce3. Address Specifically The Argument That If Jce3 Applies Then Any Acts Of Violence Committed By Service Members Against Civilians (Such As Rape) Will Be War Crimes Because Such Acts Are Foreseeable During War. Also Address Whether The Approach Of Applying Jce3 To War Crimes Dictates That Commanders Will Always Be War Criminals When Pursuing A War., Meredith Wood Bowen

War Crimes Memoranda

No abstract provided.

Atrocity Crimes Framing The Responsibility To Protect, David Scheffer

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Truth Commissions: Between Impunity And Prosecution, Thomas Buergenthal Hon.

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Breaking The Silence: Rape As An International Crime, Mark Ellis

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Making Sense Of A Senseless War, J. Peter Pham

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

A Dirty War in West Africa: The RUF and the Destruction of Sierra Leone by Lansana Gberie. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005.

and

Young Soldiers: Why They Choose to Fight by Rachel Brett and Irma Specht. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005.