Isbn: 9780521861854 - making sense of mass atrocity (5 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. This book trenchantly diagnoses the law's limits in making sense of mass atrocity. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: LAR; LBBR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 540. . 2009. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Genocide, crimes against humanity, and the worst war crimes are possible only when the state or other organisations mobilise and co-ordinate the efforts of many people. Responsibility for mass atrocity is always widely shared, often by thousands. Yet criminal law, with its liberal underpinnings, prefers to blame particular individuals for isolated acts. Is such law, therefore, constitutionally unable to make any sense of the most catastrophic conflagrations of our time Drawing on the experience of several prosecutions, this book both trenchantly diagnoses the law's limits at such times and offers a spirited defence of its moral and intellectual resources for meeting the vexing challenge of holding anyone criminally accountable for mass atrocity. Just as war criminals develop new methods of eluding law's historic grasp, so criminal law flexibly devises novel responses to their stratagems. Mark Osiel examines several such legal innovations in international jurisprudence and proposes still others. …