1st Edition

Implementing International Humanitarian Law From The Ad Hoc Tribunals to a Permanent International Criminal Court

By Yusuf Aksar Copyright 2004
    344 Pages
    by Routledge

    344 Pages
    by Routledge

    Implementing International Humanitarian Law examines the international humanitarian law rules and their application by the ad hoc tribunals with regard to the substantive laws of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal Rwanda (ICTR). The practice of the ICTY and the ICTR and their contribution to international humanitarian law, together with their possible impact on the International Criminal Court, is examined in light of the decisions rendered by the ad hoc tribunals and of the latest international humanitarian law instruments such as the 1996 ILC Draft Code of Crimes Against the Peace and Security of Mankind and the ICC Statute.

    Part 1 Part 1 The Establishment of the Ab Hoc Tribunals (the ICTY and the ICTR) and the International Criminal Court (the ICC); Chapter 1 The Establishment of the ICTY and the ICTR; Chapter 2 The Creation of the International Criminal Court; Part 2 Part 2 The Substantive Law (Subject-Matter Jurisdiction) of the Ad Hoc Tribunals: Their Practice and Their Contribution to International Humanitarian Law and Impact on the ICC; Chapter 3 Individual Criminal Responsibility in International Law; Chapter 4 War Crimes; Chapter 5 The Crime of Genocide; Chapter 6 Crimes Against Humanity; Chapter 7 Concluding Remarks;

    Biography

    YUSUF AKSAR