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Africans And The Icc: Hypocrisy, Impunity, And Perversion, Makau Wa Mutua Oct 2016

Africans And The Icc: Hypocrisy, Impunity, And Perversion, Makau Wa Mutua

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Published as Chapter 3 in Africa and the ICC: Perceptions of Justice, Kamari M. Clarke, Abel S. Knottnerus, & Eefje de Volder, eds.


Comparative Criminal Law, Luis E. Chiesa Jan 2014

Comparative Criminal Law, Luis E. Chiesa

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Published as Chapter 47 in The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law, Markus Dubber & Tatjana Hörnle, eds.

Criminal law is a parochial discipline. Courts and scholars in the English speaking world seldom take seriously the criminal statutes, cases and scholarly writings published in the non-English speaking world. The same is true the other way around. This is unfortunate. Much can be learned from comparing the way in which the world’s leading legal systems approach important questions of criminal theory.

This Chapter introduces the reader to comparative criminal law with the aim of demonstrating how comparative analysis can enrich both domestic …