The Right To The Truth In International Law
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Author | : Melanie Klinkner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2019-07-26 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1317335082 |
The United Nations has established a right to the truth to be enjoyed by victims of gross violations of human rights. The origins of the right stem from the need to provide victims and relatives of the missing with a right to know what happened. It encompasses the verification and full public disclosure of the facts associated with the crimes from which they or their relatives suffered. The importance of the right to the truth is based on the belief that, by disclosing the truth, the suffering of victims is alleviated. This book analyses the emergence of this right, as a response to an understanding of the needs of victims, through to its development and application in two particular legal contexts: international human rights law and international criminal justice. The book examines in detail the application of the right through the case law and jurisprudence of international tribunals in the human rights and also the criminal justice context, as well as looking at its place in transitional justice. The theoretical foundations of the right to the truth are considered as well as the various objectives appropriate for different truth-seeking mechanisms. The book then goes on to discuss to what extent it can be understood, constructed and applied as a hard, legally enforceable right with correlating duties on various people and institutions including state agencies, prosecutors and judges.
Author | : Darryl Robinson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 896 |
Release | : 2020-02-24 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0192558889 |
In the past twenty years, international criminal law has become one of the main areas of international legal scholarship and practice. Most textbooks in the field describe the evolution of international criminal tribunals, the elements of the core international crimes, the applicable modes of liability and defences, and the role of states in prosecuting international crimes. The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law, however, takes a theoretically informed and refreshingly critical look at the most controversial issues in international criminal law, challenging prevailing practices, orthodoxies, and received wisdoms. Some of the contributions to the Handbook come from scholars within the field, but many come from outside of international criminal law, or indeed from outside law itself. The chapters are grounded in history, geography, philosophy, and international relations. The result is a Handbook that expands the discipline and should fundamentally alter how international criminal law is understood.
Author | : François J. Larocque |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : International law |
ISBN | : 9781780683546 |
This collection of essays addresses the most pressing contemporary issues in international law and relations. The authors are leading experts and renowned actors on the international stage or in national jurisdictions.
Author | : Andrea Bianchi |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 641 |
Release | : 2013-11-07 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107470242 |
While its importance in domestic law has long been acknowledged, transparency has until now remained largely unexplored in international law. This study of transparency issues in key areas such as international economic law, environmental law, human rights law and humanitarian law brings together new and important insights on this pressing issue. Contributors explore the framing and content of transparency in their respective fields with regard to proceedings, institutions, law-making processes and legal culture, and a selection of cross-cutting essays completes the study by examining transparency in international law-making and adjudication.
Author | : Anne Orford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2021-08-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108480942 |
Explores the ideological, political, and economic stakes of struggles over international law's history and its relation to empire and capitalism.
Author | : Jean d'Aspremont |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108421873 |
Offers a new perspective on international law and international legal argumentation: to what event is international law a belief system?
Author | : Mark Bradley |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780813530529 |
Exhibiting Terror: Lindsay French
Author | : Uladzislau Belavusau |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2017-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110718875X |
The volume revisits memory laws as a phenomenon of global law, transitional justice, historical narratives and claims for historical truth. It will appeal to those interested in the conflict between legal governance of memory with values of democratic citizenship, political pluralism, and fundamental rights.
Author | : Jeffrey Davis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0521514363 |
This book studies how victims of human rights violations in Latin America, their families, and their advocates work to overcome entrenched impunity and seek legal justice. Their struggles show that legal justice is a multifaceted process, the overarching purpose of which is to restore human dignity and prevent further violence. Uncovering, revealing, and proving the truth are essential elements of legal justice, and are also powerful tools to activate the process. When faced with stubborn impunity at home, victims, families, and advocates can carry on their work for legal justice by bringing cases in courts in other countries or in the Inter-American human rights system. These extra-territorial courts can jumpstart the process of legal justice at home. Seeking Human Rights Justice in Latin America examines the political and legal struggle through the lens of the human story at the heart of these cases.
Author | : William A. Schabas |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0192845691 |
This book provides a comprehensive account of the emergence of the customary law of human rights. It examines a range of human rights norms, and provides a useful guide to identifying those which can be described as customary.