International Prosecution of Human Rights Crimes

by Michael Ratner and Wolfgang Kaleck

1 In his separate opinion in the Nuclear Weapons case, Judge Mohammed Bed- oui, then the President of the International Court of Justice, called nuclear we- ons "the absolute evil. " There are a few other things which merit being called - solutely evil. They are the predicates of the International Criminal Court and of various domestic laws patterned on the Rome Statute: war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and aggression. A conference organized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540366482
• ISBN13: 9783540366485
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"