TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ratner,Steven R.
AU  - Abrams,Jason S.
AU  - Bischoff,James L.
TI  - Accountability for human rights atrocities in international law: beyond the Nuremberg legacy 
SN  - 9780199546664 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - KZ7075 .R38 2009
U1  - 345/.0235 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Criminal liability (International law)
KW  - International crimes
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-472) and index; Individual accountability for human rights abuses: historical and legal underpinnings -- Genocide and the imperfections of codification -- Crimes against humanity and the inexactitude of custom -- War crimes and the limitations of accountability for acts in armed conflict -- Other abuses incurring individual responsibility under international law -- Expanding and contracting culpability: complicity, defenses, and other barriers to criminality -- Mechanisms for accountability: framing the issues -- The forum of first resort: national tribunals -- The progeny of Nuremberg: international criminal tribunals -- Non-prosecutorial options: investigatory commissions, civil suits, immigration measures, and lustration -- Developing the case: comments on evidence and judicial assistance -- Evidence: a dearth of uniform standards -- The Khmer Rouge rule over Cambodia: a historical overview -- Applying the law -- Engaging the mechanisms -- Striving for justice: the prospects for individual accountability
ER  -