Universal Jurisdiction: National Courts and the Prosecution of Serious Crimes Under International Law...

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Stephen Macedo

Universal Jurisdiction

National Courts and the Prosecution of Serious Crimes Under International Law

Stephen Macedo

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University of Pennsylvania Press
22 February 2006

Law; International criminal law

Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

When former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London at the request of a Spanish judge, the world's attention was focused for the first time on the idea of universal jurisdiction. Universal jurisdiction stands for the principle that atrocities such as genocide, torture, and war crimes are so heinous and so universally abhorred that any state is entitled to prosecute these crimes in its national courts regardless of where they were committed or the nationality of the perpetrators or the victims. In 2001, two Rwandan nuns were convicted in a Belgian court for atrocities committed in Rwanda against Rwandans. Serbs have been prosecuted in German courts, and a court in Senegal asserted universal jurisdiction over the former dictator of Chad, Hissene Habre. Universal jurisdiction is becoming a potent instrument of international law, but it is poorly understood by legal experts and remains a mystery to most public officials and citizens.

Universal Jurisdiction brings together leading scholars to discuss the origins, evolution, and implications of this legal weapon against impunity. They examine the questions that cloud its future, and its role in specific cases involving Adolf Eichmann, Pinochet, Habre, and former Rwandan government officials, among others, in order to determine the proper place of universal jurisdiction in the emerging regime of international legal accountability.

Edited by: Stephen Macedo
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 630g
ISBN: 9780812219500
ISBN 10: 0812219503
Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 22 February 2006
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stephen Macedo is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and Director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He chairs the Princeton Project on Universal Jurisdiction, where this book originated.

Reviews for Universal Jurisdiction: National Courts and the Prosecution of Serious Crimes Under International Law

This particular publication is likely to become an essential one in the analysis of jurisprudential bases for the heinous activity that such jurisdiction is bound to eradicate. * American Society of International Law <i>Newsletter</i> *