Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law: Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy

by Steven R. Ratner, Jason S. Abrams, James L. Bischoff

Book Overview

More than fifty years after the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, nations still struggle with the necessity of holding individuals accountable for human rights violations. This book offers an unprecedented progress report on this crucial enterprise. After examining the scope of international crime, the mechanisms created by states for enforcing laws, and the practical difficulties of applying such laws, the authors conclude their comprehensive study with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198298714
• ISBN13: 9780198298717
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.9" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

An Excellent Crimes Against Humanity Book

This is an excellent, short alternative to bigger and more well-known textbooks on crimes against humanity. It's very scholary, well-researched, and offers the case study of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. It addresses many theoretical as well as practical issues of international law. It lists (p. 77) crimes against humanity as murder, extermination, enslavement, forced labor, deportation and unjustified or cruel forced population transfers, imprisonment, torture, rape and other forms of sexual abuse, inhumane acts constituting severe attacks on the human person, persecution that denies basic human rights, certain severe deprivations of property, and disappearances without proof of murder. Without being overly legalistic, the book goes into how to investigate and prosecute such crimes which would be very useful for those seeking greater "accountability" in the world today.

An incredibly in depth review of a terrible legal dilemma

Abrams and Ratner provide an excellent in depth review of the legal and moral difficulties in bringing perpertrators of genocide to justice.