In 1993, the United Nations Security Council set up an ad hoc
tribunal to bring to trial those accused of the worst breaches of
humanitarian law in the war-torn former Yugoslavia, thus setting in
motion a process which has significantly raised the profile and
importance of international criminal justice. Whether through a
proliferation of international criminal courts and tribunals, or by
the many pronouncements in domestic courts on international crimes,
the patchwork of disparate rules, principles, conventions, and
treaties is now taking discernible shape, and a distinct corpus of
law operating across diverse cultures and varied legal traditions
is rapidly emerging. Responding to these momentous developments,
this new title from Routledge's Major Works series, Critical
Concepts in Law, addresses the acute need for an authoritative
reference work that traces the evolution of the emerging discipline
of international criminal law. The learned editors aver that now is
the time to take stock and make some sense of the subject's
dauntingly vast literature, to identify a canon, and to engage with
its key concepts. Selected by Antonio Cassese, the first President
of the Yugoslavia Tribunal and the author of some of the most
influential books on the subject, and a small team of noted
scholars, this new four-volume collection assembles the best
scholarship from the time of Nuremberg and Tokyo to the present
day. The volume editors have realized an ambitious aim. Not only
does International Criminal Law bring together ground-breaking
material sourced from a wide range of academic journals, edited
collections, textbooks, and monographs, many of which are now hard
to obtain, the editors also illuminate the much broader-and
fundamental-issues related to impunity, guilt, restitution, and
social reconciliation. With a full index and a comprehensive
introduction, International Criminal Law is an essential,
authoritative, and accessible work of reference for scholar,
student, and practitioner alike.
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