Defences in Contemporary International Criminal Law

by Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops and Geert-Jan Knoops

In an area of law so thoroughly politicized, culturally freighted and passionately punitive, there is need for an extraordinary measure of protection for the accused if we are to pay more than lip service to justice.
Defenses in Contemporary International Criminal Law ventures farther into this uneasy territory than any previous work, offering a meticulous analysis of the case law in the post World War II Military Tribunals and the ad hoc tribunals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571051511
• ISBN13: 9781571051516
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Brill - Nijhoff
• Length: 298 Pages