Impediments to Exercising Jurisdiction Over International Crimes

by Yasmin Q. Naqvi

The assumption is growing that legal impediments to the exercise of jurisdiction are invalid in the face of the imperative to prosecute international crimes. This analysis of seven principal impediments comparatively analyses each from the perspective of their historical origins, the policy contexts justifying them and the legal arguments used by courts and commentators to either uphold the barrier to prosecution or to reject its application so that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9067043206
• ISBN13: 9789067043205
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 9.7"