Unimaginable Atrocities: Justice, Politics, and Rights at the War Crimes Tribunals

by William A. Schabas

Book Overview

As international criminal courts and tribunals have proliferated and international criminal law is increasingly seen as a key tool for bringing the world's worst perpetrators to account, the controversies surrounding the international trials of war criminals have grown. War crimes tribunals have to deal with accusations of victors' justice, bad prosecutorial policy and case management, and of jeopardizing fragile peace in post-conflict situations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198712952
• ISBN13: 9780198712954
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"