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Toolkit Or Tinderbox? When Legal Systems Interface Conflict, Christie S. Warren
Toolkit Or Tinderbox? When Legal Systems Interface Conflict, Christie S. Warren
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Grave Crimes And Weak Evidence: Fact-Finding Evolution In International Criminal Law, Nancy Amoury Combs
Grave Crimes And Weak Evidence: Fact-Finding Evolution In International Criminal Law, Nancy Amoury Combs
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International criminal courts carry out some of the most important work that a legal system can conduct: prosecuting those who have visited death and destruction on millions. Despite the significance of their work--or perhaps because of it--international courts face tremendous challenges. Chief among them is accurate fact-finding. With alarming regularity, international criminal trials feature inconsistent, vague, and sometimes false testimony that renders judges unable to assess with any measure of certainty who did what to whom in the context of a mass atrocity. This Article provides the first-ever empirical study quantifying fact-finding in an international criminal court. The study shines …
Seeking Inconsistency: Advancing Pluralism In International Criminal Sentencing, Nancy Amoury Combs
Seeking Inconsistency: Advancing Pluralism In International Criminal Sentencing, Nancy Amoury Combs
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"Fact-Finding Without Facts": A Conversation With Nancy Combs, Nancy Amoury Combs
"Fact-Finding Without Facts": A Conversation With Nancy Combs, Nancy Amoury Combs
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Procuring Guilty Pleas For International Crimes: The Limited Influence Of Sentencing Discounts, Nancy Amoury Combs
Procuring Guilty Pleas For International Crimes: The Limited Influence Of Sentencing Discounts, Nancy Amoury Combs
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International tribunals prosecuting those responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes face many of the same resource constraints that bedevil national criminal justice systems. Consequently, international tribunals have begun to utilize various procedural devices long used by national prosecutors to speed case dispositions. One such procedural device is the guilty plea. National prosecutors induce criminal defendants to plead guilty and waive their rights to trial through a process of plea bargaining; that is, by offering defendants sentencing concessions in exchange for their guilty pleas. International prosecutors who seek to engage in plea bargaining, however, face a host of …
International Decisions: Prosecutor V. Plavsic, Nancy Amoury Combs
International Decisions: Prosecutor V. Plavsic, Nancy Amoury Combs
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International Criminal Jurisprudence Comes Of Age: The Substance And Procedure Of An Emerging Discipline, Nancy Amoury Combs
International Criminal Jurisprudence Comes Of Age: The Substance And Procedure Of An Emerging Discipline, Nancy Amoury Combs
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