Amnesty for Crime in International Law and Practice / / Andreas O'Shea.
This book contains a comprehensive and well-researched study of the relationship between municipal amnesty laws and developing principles of international criminal law. It pursues a path towards defining criteria for reconciling these two delicate fields of transitional justice. It concludes with a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : Brill | Nijhoff,, 2002. |
| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (411 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Table of Treaties and Other Agreements.
- Table of Amnesty Laws and Decrees.
- Table of Cases.
- Abbreviations.
- 1. Introduction.
- 2. The Practice of Amnesty: Its Emergence, Development and Rational.
- 3. National Amnesty Laws.
- 4. The Rationale of Legal Liability and Amnesty.
- 5. Opting for Prosecution or Amnesty in a System of General Relativity.
- 6. Prosecution Pursuant to International Humanitarian Law Treaties.
- 7. Addressing Impunity through Human Rights Treaties and Related Instruments.
- 8. Defining the Parameters and Criteria for a General Norm against Impunity.
- 9. State Practice, Opinio Juris and a Duty to Prosecute.
- 10. Amnesty and Civil Liability.
- 11. Reconciling Municipal Amnesty with Global Justice: the need for a Protocol to the Rome Statute.
- 12. Conclusion Towards the Development of Principles for the Limitation of Municipal Amnesty Laws.
- Appendix:
- Draft Protocol.
- Bibliography.
- Index.