1st Edition
Moral Accountability and International Criminal Law Holding Agents of Atrocity Accountable to the World
By Kirsten Fisher
Copyright 2012
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines international criminal law from a normative perspective and lays out how responsible agents, individuals and the collectives they comprise, ought to be held accountable to the world for the commission of atrocity. The author provides criteria for determining the kinds of actions that should be addressed through international criminal law. Additionally, it asks, and answers, how... Read more
1. The Distinct Domain of International Criminal Law 2. International Crimes 3. The Expressive Value of Judgement and Punishment 4. Challenges of Individual Responsibility within Collective Wrongs 5. Identifying Liability, Fair Labeling and ICL Offenses 6. Complementarity and the Detriments of Universal Jurisdiction 7. Evaluating Judicial Mechanisms 8. Retributive Justice as Culturally Insensitive? 9. Collective Responsibility and Collective Punishment. Conclusion
Biography
Kirsten J. Fisher is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research at the University of Helsinki. Prior to this post, she held a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, and a visiting research fellowship at the Centre of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Faculty of Law, McGill University. She writes on issues of global justice and international criminal law.
