Universal Jurisdiction: National Courts and the Prosecution of Serious Crimes Under International Law

by Stephen Macedo

Book Overview

When former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London at the request of a Spanish judge, the world's attention was focused for the first time on the idea of universal jurisdiction. Universal jurisdiction stands for the principle that atrocities such as genocide, torture, and war crimes are so heinous and so universally abhorred that any state is entitled to prosecute these crimes in its national courts regardless of where they were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812219503
• ISBN13: 9780812219500
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"