T M C Asser Press: 138 books
by Juliet R. Amenge Okoth
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
This book looks at the relevance of conspiracy in international criminal law. It establishes that conspiracy was introduced into international criminal law for purposes of prevention and to combat the collective nature of participation in commission of international crimes. Its use as a tool of accountability...
Anticipative Criminal Investigation
Theory and Counterterrorism Practice in the Netherlands and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
The book assesses the adoption of counterterrorism measures in the Netherlands and the United States, which facilitate criminal investigations with a preventive focus (anticipative criminal investigations), from the perspective of rule of law principles. Anticipative criminal investigation has emerged...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
In international law victims' issues have gained more and more attention over the last decades. In particular in transitional justice processes the victim is being given high priority. It is to be seen in this context that the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court foresees a rather excessive...
by Justice Bankole Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
The doctrine of universal jurisdiction has evolved throughout modern times in the context of global criminal justice as a paramount agent of combating impunity emanating from international criminality. Sierra Leone, as a member of the international community and the United Nations, has, in recent...
Anticipatory Action in Self-Defence
Essence and Limits under International Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
The legality of preemptive strikes is one of the most controversial questions of contemporary international law. At the core of this controversy stands the temporal dimension of self-defence: when and for how long can a state defend itself against an armed attack? Can it resort to armed force before...
by Constantine Antonopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Counterclaims, the right of a State sued by another State to bring its own counter-suit in the course of the same trial, may offer an opportunity to mitigate the effects of the original suit and help to resolve disputes between States that have more than one aspect. In recent years, counterclaims...
Armed Conflict and International Law: In Search of the Human Face
Liber Amicorum in Memory of Avril McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
This book is written in memory of Avril McDonald, who passed away in April 2010. Avril was an inspired and passionate scholar in the fields of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, human rights law and law in the field of arms control and disarmament. What in particular made...
International Criminal Tribunals and Human Rights Law
Adherence and Contextualization
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
This book addresses the interpretation and application of human rights norms by International Criminal Tribunals (ICTs). Such Tribunals are widely heralded as human rights defenders. At the same time, however, they employ activities that necessary entail the risk of human rights violations: they conduct...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
The general theme of this volume is contemporary armed conflicts and their implications for international humanitarian law. It is elaborated upon in several chapters, dealing with a variety of topics related to, among other things, the situations in Libya, Transnistria, Mexico, Syria/Iraq (Islamic...
Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2014
Between Pragmatism and Predictability: Temporariness in International Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The Netherlands Yearbook of International Law was first published in 1970. It offers a forum for the publication of scholarly articles of a more general nature in the area of public international law including the law of the european Union.
One of the key functions or purposes of international...
by Petra Viebig
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
This work deals with the exclusion of illicitly obtained evidence at the International Criminal Court. At the level of domestic law, the so-called exclusionary rule has always been a very prominent topic. The reason for this is that the way a court of law deals with tainted evidence pertains to a...
Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2016
The Changing Nature of Territoriality in International Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
International law holds a paradoxical position with territory. Most rules of international law are traditionally based on the notion of State territory, and territoriality still significantly shapes our contemporary legal system. At the same time, new developments have challenged territory as the...
The Kyoto Protocol in the EU
European Community and Member States under International and European Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
The participation of the European Community and the Member States in the international climate change regimes is a complex issue. In the case of the Kyoto Protocol, this is rendered more complicated by the fact that, for the purposes of Article 4 of the Kyoto Protocol, the membership of the European...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
This book deals with questions of democracy and governance relating to new technologies. The deployment and application of new technologies is often accompanied with uncertainty as to their long-term (un)intended impacts. New technologies also raise questions about the limits of the law as the line...